Aurora mayor presents $22,750 for children’s mental health from benefit golf tournament – Aurora Sentinel

AURORA | Politicians hitting the links helped raise more than $22,000 for children’s mental health programs this year.

Aurora Mayor Steve Hogan presents $22,750 in grant money for children’s mental health programs raised by the Aurora Vistas Foundation Mayor’s Cup Classic golf tournament Friday, March 25, 2016, at Aurora Municipal Center. (Photo by Rachel Sapin/Aurora Sentinel)

Aurora Mayor Steve Hogan joined with the Aurora Vistas Foundation, Aurora Mental Health Center and representatives from Arvada and Sheridan Friday morning, March 25, at Aurora City Hall as $22,750 in grant funding was presented for children’s mental health programs in the three cities.

Hogan said the money from the grants would would fun 17 children’s programs at Aurora Mental Health.

Department of Agricultureas Farm to School Grant Program, are the second USDA pot that the regionas BOCES has been awarded, said Ray Denniston, special projects coordinator for food services.

In 2012, BOCES worked with the stateas Department of Agriculture and Markets to look at developing infrastructure for connecting local farmers with local schools. In addition to the previous USDA grant, Broome-Tioga BOCES was one of six grantees late last year for state funds to train school staff in food procurement, reach out to producers, buy equipment and educate students on healthy eating.

Despite bureaucratic hurdles, New York’s farm-to-school program is in place in 97 school districts, and there are 17 approved farm vendors, with applications to the USDA from another 14.

With the new grant, BOCES will work in partnership with Cornell Cooperative Extension of Broome County and the Food and Health Network of South Central NY (FAHN).

aFarm to school programs provide a powerful opportunity to link the regionas rich agricultural resources with community efforts to address child hunger,a FAHN Coordinator Erin Summerlee said.

$3.2 Million Grant Competition to Support Teaching, Studying of Native American Languages Funds to Aid Preservation, Revitalization of Native Languages | U.S. $3.2 Million Grant Competition to Support Teaching, Studying of Native American Languages Funds to Aid Preservation, Revitalization of Native Languages $3.2 Million Grant Competition to Support Teaching, Studying of Native American Languages Funds to Aid Preservation, Revitalization of Native Languages
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Department of Education’s Office of English Language Acquisition announced today in the Federal Register the availability of more than $3.2 million in grants to provide effective instruction to Native American students who are identified as English learners.

Under the Native American and Alaska Native Children in School Program (NAM) program, funds will be used to support the teaching, learning and studying of Native American languages including Native Hawaiian and Native American Pacific Islanders.

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Less than a year ago, a local group of education supporters teamed up with Bartlesville school officials and designed a pilot program to help struggling students live up to their potential and have a successful future.

The dozen or so civic leaders behind Bartlesville Education Promise are already making progress, providing weekly tutoring and summer enrichment activities that will span over the next three years at an estimated annual cost of about $50,000.

“It’s going better than I expected,” said Ginger Griffin, a founding member of BEP. “When Ginger Griffin approached me to help on the Bartlesville system today because of the changing demographics, I decided it was time to review the problems, determine if there was a model that could help the school system today, and maybe try and help.”

And so BEP members have been busy raising funds to support students, beginning last fall with an after-school tutoring program at Bartlesville High School. “Between BEP, Bartlesville Public Schools, Tri County Tech, Bartlesville Community Foundation, the Bartlesville Rotary Club, and Lowe Family Young Scholars, we are going to have a great summer offering for the students of Bartlesville.”

Another BEP member, Roger Box, served on BPSD’s Long Range Facilities Committee several years ago when he became aware of the some of the problems that face special needs students.

He’s particularly pleased with the BEP program for the upcoming transition camps that start this summer and will provide weeklong orientation programs for students moving from fifth to sixth grade as well eighth grade students heading to ninth grade.

“Statistically these are emotionally challenging times for the already academically challenged student.

Paulette Brown-Hinds comes from a family of community-minded individuals.

Paulette Brown-Hinds, a board member of The Community Foundation and publisher of the VOICE newspaper in Riverside, comes from a family of philanthropists and engaged community members. “It’s what we talk about at home and it was always part of our conversations and lifestyle.”

Brown-Hinds began volunteering with The Community Foundation as a member of the Youth Grantmakers Steering Committee. In 2014, the committee launched additional locations serving the Coachella Valley, San Bernardino, High Desert and Idyllwild.

The Youth Grantmakers have awarded over $227,000 to nonprofit agencies since its inception.

Brown-Hinds said her niece, Jordan Brown, was a member of the inaugural class of the San Bernardino Youth Grantmakers.

“She learned so much about working in a team, leadership and giving back to the community,” Brown-Hinds said. So our family tradition is now continuing on in the next generation.”

Brown-Hinds joined The Community Foundation board after her volunteer work with the Youth Grantmakers.

“Being asked to be a board member for The Community Foundation was an honor, but also a natural progression,” she said. I probably do as much volunteer work as I do work for pay.”

Established in 1941, The Community Foundation has grown from a small scholarship distribution committee in Riverside to a nationally accredited institution that serves the counties Riverside and San Bernardino and beyond.

Brown-Hinds believes Inland Empire nonprofits are doing excellent work in the community that is sometimes overshadowed by larger organizations outside the region.

Founded in 1986, Sigma Lambda Beta began the Charity Bowl philanthropy in 2002, collaborating with Sigma Lambda Gamma.

The Charity Bowl is open to anyone from the Ames community, and will even see people traveling from across the Midwest to attend.

aMy favorite part is getting to meet and network with people from different chapters that arenat from this area or even from Iowa,a said Britney Williams, president of Sigma Lambda Gamma.

Registered participants will receive unlimited bowling for an hour, pizza and drinks. Money raised from the Charity Bowl will go toward services ACCESS provides such as childrenas programs, individual counseling, support groups, advocacy, community education, crisis response services and the Sexual Assault Response Team.

aFundraising dollars are great for us because we can use them for however we see fit,a Torresi said.

Money donated specifically from the Charity Bowl may be used to pay for extra staff time or purchase living supplies for a survivor, Torresi said.

Those interested in supporting ACCESS can refer to the ACCESS webpage and like its Facebook page to see upcoming events and fundraisers.

A drum making workshop during the Carrier Sekani Family Services weekly Walk Tall program, aimed at vulnerable youth.

A drum making workshop during the Carrier Sekani Family Services weekly Walk Tall program, aimed at vulnerable youth.

For the last five years, the Walk Tall program has helped at-risk aboriginal youth connect with culture and build stronger community relationships.

Carrier Sekani Family Services learned Wednesday the program got $100,000 from the province.

“The youth program’s going to be able to maintain its service for at least this year,” said Mary Teegee, CSFS executive director.

Until Wednesday, Teegee didn’t know if the program would continue. It’s year-to-year now.”

The grant came under Youth Anti-Gang and Crime Prevention, pulled from the province’s civil and criminal forfeiture programs.

Walk Tall is a weekly program offered separately to boys and girls considered vulnerable, at-risk or gang involved.

“It is based on cultural activities so that they understand who they are as an indigenous young girl or young boy and just to have that sense of pride in who they are,” she said.

All of Carrier Sekani’s programming has to have a traditional underpinning to address historical trauma.

“We’re looking at overcoming the impacts of colonization and overcoming the impacts of residential schools and how we do that is all the programs that we do is based in culture.”

For many Walk Tall offers the only safe space they have, she said, and a place where they can start to form relationships with youth workers.

“They build trust and rapport with the youth workers,” Teegee said.

Teegee said she’s made funding requests to the Ministry of Children and Family Development (MCFD), which she thinks are natural partners for a program, but has never been successful.

“I think with MCFD, given the concern around the outcomes for children in care a program such as this, you’d think would automatically be funded but as of yet we haven’t received any funding from MCFD to maintain this program.”

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