Grantees

Eliminating health access barriers by providing free dental care & education for Burlington School District children who are low-income or uninsured at our School-Based Dental Center

Windsor County Mentors has provided youth mentoring services in Windsor County, VT, for 50 years. Over this time, Windsor County Mentors has developed a robust mentoring infrastructure with both school-based and community match programs, creating over 1,500 mentoring pairs across these rural communities. The need for this program is clear, as high rates of absenteeism and social isolation continue to negatively impact students in our largely rural service area. Over the past three years, they have continued to expand at the request of schools and parent groups into areas that entirely lack mentorship programs.

To increase the capacity of the school-based mentoring programs of the Mentor Connector to four new schools. Connecting mentors with children in grades 1-5 to assist them in areas of need as assessed by teachers and counselors.

Second Growth provides counseling, youth programs, prevention education, and recovery supports for youth and families in our community. They provide free registration to middle school students who wish to attend Camp, thereby eliminating barriers to entry for low- and moderate-income families. Their long-standing summer programs are designed to provide social-emotional learning, prevention education, develop leadership skills, and offer other enrichment through experiential learning activities. Each year they update the curriculum to include new research, best practices, and improve efficacy. In recent years they have expanded into new towns and offered additional weeks in order to reach a broader audience.

To identiy how our program can better serve the enrichment and childcare needs of students in grades 4-6. To develop and pilot a program for older youth based on the data we collect

Support the expansion of the Shaken Baby Syndrome Prevention Project specifically for middle and high schools and young fathers.

We are a small non profit family cooperative school year preschool program located in Shelburne Vermont. We have been struggling with enrollment as families in our community need more hours than we have traditionally offered. We decided to expand our hours to offer a school day program and have great interest in this opportunity. We need funds to set up our space to meet the State Regulations to offer rest time and proper lunch storage for children in our care who will attend for a longer day. We will be purchasing cordless blinds for our windows to provide a darker space, we also need a refrigerator to properly and safely store the children's lunches.

The Side-by-Side Mentoring Program is a collaborative between the Mentor Connector (MC) and the Rutland County Parent-Child Center (PCPCC) to provide one-on-one mentoring support to young parents, many of who do not have positive role models in their lives. This program works to stop the poverty cycle by helping teen parents to develop a responsive, responsible parenting style; stabilize the family unit; link the family to community-based services, and aid the parents to enhance their self-esteem.