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Community Solutions Receives Grants for Education
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio -- Community Solutions, a program of Compass Family & Community Services, has been awarded a grant of $32,500 from the Austin, Texas-based RGK Foundation. The grant will help to fund the Warren SPARK -- or Supporting Partnerships to Assure Ready Kids -- program.
SPARK, a home-based intervention program, prepares children and their families residing in the Jefferson K-8 School neighborhoods for kindergarten. It is a research-based program that has gained recognition from the Ohio Department of Education and has demonstrated positive outcomes for children in 10 different communities, according to Rochelle Landy, director, marketing and development.
The program has also been supported by the Wean Foundation and its pledge of $32,500.
Community Solutions also received $20,000 from the Raymond John Wean Wean Foundation in Warren, $22,500 from the Youngstown-based Youngstown Foundation and $20,000 from Community Foundation of the Mahoning Valley for Project Kind, or Keys to Improvement Necessary for Development . Project Kind is an early childhood life skills curriculum designed for kindergarten students in Youngstown City Schools. The goal of the program is to enhance student success in school and life by promoting social, emotional, and behavioral skills as an essential part of early student education. Project Kind has been recognized nationally as a “best practice.”
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