Grantees

Continue to develop the program and build on experiences and lessons learned in year one to provide new and expectant fathers in Central Vermont with the resources, support and education to create stable, nurturing family relationships and home environments durnig pregnancy and in the months following the birth or adoption of an infant.

Outright Vermont’s monthly Gender Creative Kids group (ages 5-12), Trans Group (ages 13-22), and Trans Parent Group provide safe, confidential spaces for peer and therapeutic support for children and youth whose gender expression doesn’t fit rigid “male” or “female” expectations. Some identify as transgender, others are in a process of developing the gender identity that fits for them, which may be called “gender creative,” “queer,” “nonconforming,” or “fluid.” In groups, youth and families get questions answered, build a supportive community, and develop the resilience and emotional competence needed to mitigate the significant physical, social, and emotional health risks gender non-conforming children and youth experience.

The Waterbury Public Library will support healthy social-emotional development in young children in our community. We will do this by: * Purchasing topical children's and parenting books to the library's collection * Adding pre-loaded educational tablets that focus on social-emotional learning tour lenging collection for the first time * Providing a keep-forever book to 235 +/- local children in preschool and Kindergarten. * Hosting 2 parenting/caregiver workshops on positive social-emotional development in young children

Support New American children and their families. Provide culturally sensitive programs focused on family literacy, parent educaiton and acculturation for our mostly Afraican/Somali Bantu refegee families.

To purchase equipment for the VT licensed preschool space to increase scientific knowledge of cildren and to support the program's ability to document children's learning, particularly for ESL students.

Paran Recreations is dedicated to enhancing the health and well-being of rural children from low income families. Therefore our goal is to sustain the access of year-round outdoor and environmental education for our surrounding community focusing on youth populations by providing at least 25% of campers with a full funded scholarship to attend our camps throughout the year.

Provide violin instruction, music and movement for early education student as part of supervisory union's family wellness initiative. The Family Wellness Program is designed to support families in making healthy choices for all members.

Notch has successfully run summer daycamps for over 25 years currently offering a six week program attended by nearly 200 children in Richford and a newly added two week camp in Swanton this program has steadily grown and expanded to meet the needs of Swanton and the surrounding communities. Our goal is provide free high qualify, enriching activities to our rural impoverished service areas as well as providing access to free nutritious breakfast and lunch daily. Expansion of our existing programming from two weeks to four weeks in addition to our successful partnership with Swanton Recreation and area 21C funded programs would help bridge the summer food insecurity gap, address summer learning loss, and build community connections.