Grace in Action usa Awarded Grant to Provide Life Skill Training for Kids
Posted by Liz Cutler Gates on August 18, 2009
Grace in ACTION usa (GiA) has been awarded a second grant from the July Kosciusko REMC (KREMC) Round Up Fund, according to Gladys Deloe, founder and president of GiA. The $2,000 award will be used to help with Fall and Winter DISCOVERY CLUB, an after-school club for students from Jefferson Elementary School in Winona Lake, Ind.
The fall classes will complete five units of life skill training, including: personal care, learning about love, being a kid with character, dollars and sense, and my personality and potential. The program will be directed by Patti Miller, a Grace College junior from Ohio, who also assisted with the pilot program at Jefferson School in the winter of 2009.
GiA, which is a cooperating organization in the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches, also has given assistance to an after school program in Jackson, Ky., where volunteer teachers train teens who then tutor younger children in the developing of basic Life Skills.
The LifeTime Learning curriculum is an integral part of GiA’s mission: to educate (life skills) and enable (job skills) employment and/or economic development. Two of the three sections of the curriculum were recently released and are available for purchase. They are DISCOVERING Life Skills for Kids (7-8), with an accompanying Teacher’s Manual, and LEADING Life Skills for Teens, which is facilitated by a CMT (Coach-Mentor-Teacher) guide. A Parent’s Guide is also available for purchase for home-schoolers or parents who wish to help their children learn the much needed life skills.
For more information about Grace in ACTION usa or the LifeTime Learning Curriculum, contact Gladys Deloe at (574) 527-6160 or gdeloe@comcast.net or visit the website www.graceinactionusa.org.
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