Grantees

This proposal seeks funding to provide the tools, guidance and support for school teachers, administrators and staff who work in the Two Rivers Supervisory Union (TRSU) School District. TRSU has identified this work as a priority due to the increasingly high number of students suffering from the effects of living with substance, physical, and emotional abuse in their homes. For the pre-school teachers, the situation has reached crisis levels. The funds will be used for training and support within the school system during year one, with increased levels of direct support for children and families in subsequent years.

The Sharon Academy (TSA) provides relevant, comprehensive education to rural VT students in grades 7-12, ensuring graduates are equipped to thrive in a constantly changing and increasingly complex world. Adolescents in rural VT need reasons to engage in school and ways to imagine themselves as successful professionals meeting their immense potential. Students will explore real, virtual, online, or simulated work environments through a Work-based Learning Program (WBLP) designed to develop skills and connect academic principles with real-world applications. WBLPs are crucial pathways for post-secondary readiness and are essential to modern learning. Introducing a WBLP at TSA will greatly benefit students.

Offer academic tutoring and homework support in their afterschool program to help better support them to succeed in school.

Offer local grade school age children high quality and affordable summer programming in the areas of art, science, nature, and physical health for 4 full weeks during summer break.

The purpose of the program is support the development and implementation of a pilot program offering school-based literacy mentoring to kindergarten through third grade cildren. Any interested child will be matched with an adult mentor to read for an hour during lunch every week during the school year.

Twinfield Together Mentoring Program (TTMP) has a clear goal: every student who wants a mentor has a mentor. By January 2015, TTMP was providing 38 students with mentors through its community and Everybody Wins! programs, but still there were students without mentors. Last spring, we piloted a peer-mentoring program to meet the demand. Fifteen high school students joined the program, and most of those matches continue in the current school year. Peer-mentoring is a great fit for our TTMP and the school and helps fill the mentoring gap. TTMP needs additional staff—perhaps an AmeriCorps member—to continue the peer-mentoring program.

Twogether in Vermont, is a relationship based parenting program four couples raising children together and for staff working in the childcare field.

Our mission is to cultivate a Northeast Kingdom where all people thrive free from abuse and oppression. Umbrella’s core programs include Social Change, Advocacy, and Family-Based Services. Social Change offers gender-based and substance misuse prevention in local schools and other community settings. Advocacy supports survivors of domestic and sexual violence with a variety of services. Family-Based supports include Kingdom Child Care Connection which helps to connect families to child care financial assistance and referrals and the Family Room, our supervised visitation program. Through this grant, Umbrella will offer evidenced-based prevention curriculums in child care settings in the Northeast Kingdom.