Community Action Commission of Belmont County Announces: 2005
Best Practice Award winner for the 21st CCLC afterschool program
ACHIEVE program from The John Glenn Institute for Public Service
& Public Policy. The award was given in category 6 - Low Income
People Especially Vulnerable populations, Achieve their potential
by strengthening Family and other supportive systems. For more information
on the John Glenn Institute visit their website at www.glenninstitute.org.
For more information on theOACAA Best Practices award program visit
BestPractices-CommunityAction.org/ Our B.R.I.D.G.E.S. program is committed to helping Belmont county family’s grow strong. This is an after school program, which is located at three elementary schools in Belmont County, for children grades kindergarten through fifth grade and offers a safe haven for children from the end of the school day until 6:00 PM. Homework help and mentoring are offered on a daily basis, and enrichment programs are brought into the sites including cultural activities, health and nutrition programs, self esteem and character building, and a weekly physical fitness program, exciting educational and fun field trips, along with many more extras. We work with other agencies in the county and that allows us to offer programs such as, drug and alcohol prevention, teen pregnancy prevention, field trips to Wheeling Jesuit University’s Challenger Program, motivational speakers, and much more. Adult programs are continuously being developed and advertised in The Times Leader newspaper as they become available. 21st
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