Color Wheel After School Art StudioThe Color Wheel Studio offers a safe and unique after school child care experience for elementary school aged children. Focused on arts exploration, Color Wheel activities include drawing, painting, sculpture, pottery, dramatic play, music and a variety of other stimulating activities.
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Empowered Youth Programs (EYP)
EYP is an expansion of the highly recognized “Gentlemen on the Move” program in which approximately 120 elementary, middle and high school students, mostly African-American males, from the Athens and surrounding northeast Georgia counties participate. Every Saturday, the students meet on the University of Georgia (UGA) campus to participate in academic rotations, tutoring sessions and to work on social skills.
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Family Technology Resource Center (FTRC) Initiative
The Family Technology Resource Center (FTRC) Initiative was launched in deKalb County, Georgia in 1996. It addressed a district-wide need: too many people in the community were unemployed or underemployed because of their lack of technology skills. The district implemented a unique and simple plan.
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Gideons Elementary School/ After Care ProgramGideon’s After Care Program is a school-linked program that improves achievement, increases attendance and often decreases retention.
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Hearts to Nourish Hope
Hearts to Nourish Hope is a Clayton County-based non-profit agency in place to meet the needs of older youth, particularly those who have dropped out of school or are at risk of dropping out, or who are involved in the juvenile justice system in the South Metro Atlanta region.
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International Community School
The International Community Afterschool program provides a safe and caring place where your child will work and play with other children under the supervision of qualified staff.
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Paws & Claws Afterschool Program
The Paws & Claws afterschool program serves about 450 students yearly in northwest Georgia’s Catoosa County. The program prides itself on extending learning opportunities for students and parents in two school sites through varied enrichment programming.
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Statesboro-Bulloch County Parks & Recreation Department
The Statesboro-Bulloch County Parks & Recreation Department was invited by the southeast Georgia countywide district to begin afterschool programs in schools in 1989. At that time, 89 children from five elementary schools enrolled in the program—now, 670 students from all nine elementary schools participate.
In July 2007, this program was awarded National Accreditation status by
the National Accreditation Association, which signifies that this
program meets the 144 standards included in the NAA Standards for
Quality School-Age
Care.
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VOX Teen Communications/VOX’s Programs for TeensThe VOX Teen Communications program allows for students to participate in writing a teen newspaper and managing a teen-driven website.
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Wilkinson County High School Summer Program
Wilkinson County High School, in the central Georgia town of Dublin, conducts a summer program for about thirty 14- and 15-year-old students.
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