United Way AIDS Schools Program
Posted on: Saturday, 17 September 2005, 21:00 CDT
EDEN -- A program that teams volunteers with Rockingham County students on the verge of dropping out is expanding into three new schools this year.
On Friday, the Communities in Schools program received a $4,500 check from United Way of Rockingham County. The money is a portion of the $44,500 that United Way will give the retention program in 10 equal shares throughout the school year.
Currently, Communities in Schools is offered at Holmes Middle School and Draper Elementary in Eden and Moss Street School in Reidsville.
The money will allow the program to expand to McMichael and Reidsville high schools and Dillard Elementary in Madison.
Dillard began training two weeks ago, said Gretchen Shelton- Raiford, executive director for the program. A start date has not been set for the two high schools.
Up to 36 high school students and 25 elementary students could be served by the expansion, Shelton-Raiford said.
Through this program, students stay in school, have less disciplinary problems and can become the citizens we all want them to be, said Rick Hurley, United Way executive director .
The program has been in Rockingham since 1999. It targets students who miss a lot of class, fail subjects, have problems at home or have problems fitting in. The students are referred to the program by either a teacher or a guidance counselor.
Once in the program, the student is teamed with a volunteer who meets with the student at least an hour a week to work on homework or just talk with them about other matters.
The program has been at Stoneville, Williamsburg and Leaksville- Spray elementary schools and at Morehead High School in years past.
Its a principals decision to use those teachers in a classroom instead of CIS, said Neville Hall, chairman of the Communities in Schools board.
This is the first year that United Way has funded the program here.
In June, United Way announced that it would no longer fund a similar mentoring program, called Best Friends of Rockingham County, after learning that the organization had not paid taxes and had lost volunteers.
After cutting ties with Best Friends, United Way announced it was looking for a replacement group that offered mentoring services to at-risk students.
Hall said Communities in Schools applied for the grant in May and learned in late August that its grant application had been accepted.
Contact Cynthia Jeffries at 627-4881, Ext. 126, or cjeffries@news- record.com
Source: Greensboro News Record
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