Ok let me try this again.
I spoke with Sara Christianson tonight. She said she is not allowed to join our group. She said that there have been many groups such as ours who have approched the highschool asking to speak to the students and staff. CCMC crisis, and two others have spoken to them. Jim, you mentioned a group that Sara mentioned but for the life of me I can't remember the name at this minute.
Anyway, our best bet would be to put together a "presentation" to give to the superintendent. At that point we may be granted permission to speak with the staff, maybe the student body. However, she said that so many have approached them they are now leery of letting anyone else come to speak other then those they have already allowed.
My thought was that this will take some time to get permission. In the mean time we could talk to the churches and youth groups. maybe the Churches would give us 5 or 10 minutes to present the programs at their Sunday services. So that would give adults in the community an idea of what we are trying to do. then we could meet with the youth groups.
The target kid audience we want, per Sara, probably won't sit through a presentation about the group. So we need to find another way in....
That's what I have so far. I have a call out to Kim Paulina the social worker in the district for info on their contacts (the one you mentioned Jim is who they MUST use) although we got that answer tonight. I also have a call out on getting info on the Interboro channel. Haven't' heard anything back from them yet...
Project Reach is the group. I have not had a chance to contact them.
ReplyDeleteI had a feeling the school district would be tough to get into.
Work on the district this summer, when things are more settled. You wouldn't be able to do anything this year anyway since we only have about 6 weeks left. Put age appropriate programs together then approach them. It's worth a try.
ReplyDeleteI think there are so many other avenues we can start with that maybe by next year sometime we could try the school district AFTER we have made a name for ourselves. I think we just need to prove ourselves as a quality group with a good program. At that point we could look at the schools. One idea is to get into 10th gd health classes each year.
ReplyDeleteHow does everyone else feel???
I agree Margie, the district will want to see what will be offered like I said in my other comment. You have the summer to work on it. Patience is needed it won't happen overnight.
ReplyDelete"I" have the summer to work on it.... "WE" have the summer to work on it... this included you too sister!!!
ReplyDeleteOK... "WE" you know what I was getting at.
ReplyDeleteI'm happy to work on them this summer. But I'm also surprised that so many groups have contacted the school since neither me nor my kid could attest to that. I'm still going to work on St. Gabes. I like the church idea. I'm happy to put together a 10 minute presentation.
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