“Mountain tutoring program expanding” plus 1 more |
| Mountain tutoring program expanding Posted: 07 Mar 2011 12:09 PM PST As many as 25 students in grades one to three who are struggling with their reading skills at C.B. Stirling and Richard Beasley schools on Hamilton Mountain will be getting some extra help this fall. The two schools have been added to the volunteer tutoring program at Neighbour to Neighbour Centre. Starting next October, trained adult volunteers will be helping youngsters with their reading and comprehension skills in one-on-one sessions ranging from 15 to 30 minutes per week. The tutoring program has grown across the Mountain in the past decade. It began with three volunteers at R.A. Riddell school in 2003 and the addition of Stirling and Beasley will boost the number of schools in the program from 10 to 12. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
| ASAP moving forward with building plans Posted: 07 Mar 2011 03:05 PM PST PANAMA CITY — Panama City's After School Assistance Program (ASAP) plans to build a new facility and assist more children with tutoring and mentoring after the city commission approved a land donation to the nonprofit organization. Terri Gainer, ASAP's program director, said the approval moves the organization one step closer to its ultimate goal, which is serving as many area children as possible. "It's huge step forward for us," Gainer said Friday. The ASAP program got its start in Panama City in 1993 at Pana-Villa Garden Apartments, with help from the Panama City Police Department. It offers after school tutoring, mentoring, 4-H and has an adoptive program where students visit patients at area nursing homes. It later added a second facility in Glenwood. The new ASAP site will be located across from the Pana-Villa apartments near the intersection of 17th Street and Flower Avenue, said Kelly Forehand, the chairwoman for One Positive Place, a nonprofit group leading the capital campaign for ASAP's project. She said the group's goal is to raise $800,000 through private donations and grants toward the new 4,200-square-foot facility's construction, an endowment for the program, furnishings and equipment. The new building will include classrooms, a library, tutoring rooms, and a multipurpose room, Forehand said. One Positive Place has raised about $120,000 for the project, Forehand said, and has started grant writing for ASAP. The Junior Service League of Panama City donated $80,000 toward the project and has long worked with ASAP and provided volunteer tutor for its programs, she said. "The league has vested interest in ASAP," Forehand said. Groundbreaking on the new ASAP building is likely in six months to a year, Forehand said. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
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