Creating Partnerships -- Because Our Community Matters

For more than a year Strycker’s Bay has collaborated with The DOME Project  to leverage support, exchange and share organizational resources. We have been looking for ways to integrate client services to insure the communities we serve have a safety net of services to help them get through difficult periods in their lives.

We are hoping to bring other groups together at our COMMUNITY MATTERS event on January 20, 2011 to network, share resources and hopefully find ways to partner on projects and collaborate to strength our programs and services. The continued existence of small, effective groups such as Strycker’s Bay and The DOME Project are dependent on the alliances and partnerships if forges. The COMMUNITY MATTERS event will offer an opportunity for dozens of area non-profits to connect. Hope to see you there!

Related post: Community Matters

Until next post....

Kelley

New Strycker's Bay Project Under Development Pilot to Start in Early 2011

EARLY ACADEMIC SUPPORT AND ADVOCACY PROJECT

  

Witnessing the need of elementary school students not reading at grade level, SBNC has planted the seeds for the development of a program that will help students and their families access resources and obtain the academic support they need to succeed in school.

Now in the planning and pilot stages is a project that will help Strycker’s Bay’s youth program LACASA, address the academic support needs of elementary school children that are not reading at grade level. An additional component for parents seeking assistance navigating the public school system is also being developed. 

Heading this project are Nora Abbis, an Intern from Barnard and Christian Martinez an Americorp Service Member from The After School Corporation. The vision for the project is to offer tools and resources to students and their parents as an early education intervention that will insure academic improvement and long-term school success.

Stay tuned...the project will need plenty of volunteers to work individually with students...if you are interested in becoming a volunteer please reach out to Christian Martinez or Nora Abbis.

Until the next post...

Kelley