Grantees

Through this year-long pilot program, Safeline’s Youth Advocate will deliver direct outreach to eight school, library, and youth group sites in Orange and Windsor counties, reaching 204 students grades pre-K through high school with programming on developing healthy relationships, boundaries, and consent. They will also provide targeted resources to help teachers and librarians discuss healthy relationships as well as sensitive issues concerning domestic, sexual, and teen dating violence so that they can respond to students in need.

To provide inexpensive sailing opportunities and sailing lessons to youth and families in the Newport, VT areas on Lake Memphremagog.

After a successful pilot with strong community feedback, Sandglass Theater seeks support to expand our school residency program for 2nd–4th grade students at four rural Vermont elementary schools. We will host seven days onsite in classrooms with four partner schools (three new partners, one repeat), serving twenty classrooms in total. Many of these schools have limited access to arts enrichment. During each residency, the Sandglass Youth Engagement Coordinator will provide an educator orientation, present a live performance, lead a puppet-building workshop, and facilitate interactive theater games that build movement and communication skills. Teachers will receive a study guide to help integrate the residency into existing lesson plans.

Sandglass Theater seeks support with hosting residencies for 2nd, 3rd, and 4th grade students attending three of Vermont’s rural elementary schools. Our school residency program includes six days onsite in classrooms with each school partner, totaling eighteen classrooms served throughout the project. Our three partnering schools have limited access to arts enrichment opportunities. During each residency, the Sandglass Youth Engagement Coordinator will present a live performance, facilitate a puppet building workshop, and engage students in interactive theater games focused on performance and communication skills. Sandglass will provide a study guide to classroom teachers, helping integrate the residencies into existing lesson plans.

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 Summer Camp is a multi-faceted program for local middle-school children that provides prevention education and enrichment curriculum wrapped in activities and adventures. Registration is free thanks to funding from Vermont Children's Trust Foundation and other generous donors, thereby eliminating barriers to entry for low- and moderate-income families. Each year, Second Growth enhances our curriculum to include new research and improve efficacy. Our long-standing summer programs are designed to provide social-emotional learning, prevention education, develop leadership skills, and offer other enrichment through activities, group discussion, and experiential learning activities based in arts, athletics, and fun in the sun!