Calendar of Events

Academics and Tutoring

Parents, is your child struggling to stay at grade level? Does your child need to learn or improve good study habits? Students, do you need a little extra help and support with your classwork and passing a class? Need a little positive motivation to simply complete homework assignments? Then Academic Tutoring may be your go-to option. Schools rely on academic support like tutoring to increase the academic achievement of students. Look through these listings to see which opportunities match the needs of you or your child and get connected today!

Emergency Assistance

Is your family experiencing an emergency situation due to fire, flood or natural disaster, looming homelessness, or current homelessness? Do you need immediate access to furniture, clothing or medication? Have you done everything right, and still find yourself facing a financial crisis? During any emergency situation, time is of the essence and there are ways to keep the emergency from crushing you and your family. There are plenty of programs out there — some run by the government, some by charities — that can help you and your family. Look the list of services as a first step to help you and your family get back on your feet.

Food and Nutrition

You’ve heard it – the most important meal of the day is breakfast. And so are healthy lunches, dinners, and snacks. Good nutrition affects a student’s thinking skills, behavior, energy levels, and health, all of which impact academic performance. But what if you or your family are facing a food-related concern? Is your family struggling to eating healthy? Is access to meals, fresh fruit and vegetables limited in your neighborhood? Do you need quick, healthy food options for your active children and family? Here are resources to help with getting immediate access to food well as information to help teach you, your children and family to enjoy the immediate and lasting benefits of healthy eating.

Housing

Insufficient housing can have many consequences: lesser protection against diseases, difficulty to sleep and rest, difficulty for children to do school homework, fire hazards, family conflicts, lesser social interaction, etc. If you or your family stay in a place where living conditions negatively affect your life every day, consider looking at the following resources to offer options to help make a change.

Mental Health

Are you having a rough day? Have you been feeling down for a while? Are you having trouble doing the things you like to do or need to do because of how you feel—like going to school, work or hanging out with friends? Is your mental health, or someone else’s, affected by bullying? Everyone goes through tough times. Mental health problems don’t only affect adults. Children, teens and young adults can have mental health problems, too. No matter how long you’ve had something on your mind, it’s important that you talk to someone your trust about it. This could be a parent, family member, teacher, school counselor, spiritual leader or another trusted adult, who: Gives good advice when you want and ask for it; Respects your need for privacy so you can tell him or her anything; Lets you talk freely about your feelings and emotions without judging, teasing, or criticizing; Helps you figure out what to do the next time a difficult situation comes up. These following organizations can help you find peer and family supports, provide general information on mental health and wellness as well as treatment, and available services for mental health issues.

Outside of Home

Parents, do you want safe outdoor spaces to promote learning, engagement, and active play for your children? Learning occurs both indoors and out. An outdoor environment should be a place to run, play, and learn. The purpose of an outdoor environment is to encourage children to be active, to give them a break from being indoors, and to support learning in a variety of environments. There are many benefits to children and youth playing outside. Outside, children and youth can release energy, use loud voices, play vigorously, and engage in messy projects. In addition, children can experience the plants and animals in their local ecosystem/environment. The following resources are available to help parents and youth find and prep outdoor spaces for learning and play.

Parent Resources

Parents, are you struggling to help your child with new math when all you know is the old math? Do you find yourself at a loss with the latest technology and learning tools? Do you wish you had an education how-to book at your fingertips? Do you have time to watch a short video to gain some quick tips to help your child with homework? Would you be interested in calling a homework hotline to help your child with a homework assignment? To fully support a child’s education both at school and at home, enrichment opportunities are available for parents. These opportunities can be presented in the form of educational events that include parent-teacher conferences, school newsletters, Saturday or evening parent workshops, speaker presentations, and printed brochures.

Physical Health

Parents, do you want to learn how to include regular exercise in your child’s daily routine? Regular physical activity helps your child develop in ​a range of ways. Not only does it help their physical health, but it also helps improve their brain function and emotional wellbeing. Regular physical activity helps develop your child’s fundamental movement skills (i.e. physical literacy). In addition to helping maintain a healthy body weight, physical activity can help build healthy bones, muscles, heart and lungs. Physical activity also helps your child keep a healthy body weight. Discover how physical activity can improve your child’s physical health, brain function and mood by clicking on the links below.

Student Resources

Students, would you take an assessment if it would help you improve your study habits? Would you call a homework hotline to help with an assignment? Parents, are you looking for educational activities and projects to help make your child’s learning more meaningful, valuable, and rewarding? Educational Enrichment provides support and services that inspire students and families to broaden a student’s learning experiences. It also promotes critical thinking and problem-solving skills and improve a student’s ability to concentrate. Many enrichment activities are fun, which help students become more engaged in their learning and retain more information. Educational Enrichment also provides opportunities for students to pursue learning in their own areas of interest and strengths. Take a look at the following links to connect you with a variety of educational enrichment resources.

Student Mentoring

Students, do you often feel unmotivated and low on self-esteem? Parents, are you concerned about the social and emotional well-being of your child? If so, consider signing up for a mentor. When working one on-one with a student, mentors build a relationship with the student and provides them with supplemental enrichment activities to build their academic self-esteem, motivation, and beliefs about their ability to enable them to achieve academically. Mentoring can be effective in increasing academic engagement and may also have positive impact on social and emotional development of the student. Look through these listings to see which opportunities match the needs of you or your child and get connected today!

Summer Learning

As a parent, are you concerned that your child will forget over the summer most of the things he/she learned this past school year? Summer learning loss, summer setback, or summer slide are terms used to describe how on average, a student’s achievement scores may decline over summer vacation by one month’s worth of school-year learning. The declines were sharper for math than for reading, and the extent of loss was larger at higher grade levels. To combat this, there are activities to promote learning during the summer months such as reading programs, school-based summer school programs, online educational exercises, and home-based summer programs and community-based summer programs. These resources will offer ideas on how to combat summer learning loss.