Education

Caring for their own by funding EDUCATION

In 2011, the City of Lakewood invested $140,600.00 in ensuring Lakewood’s citizens have access to programs that improve the quality of life through education. Covering a diverse range of opportunities in education, the City partnered with the following programs:

Delinquency Prevention Program

Boys & Girls Club

The Lakewood HOPE Center offers after school programs for youth Monday through Friday 2:30 P.M. - 7:00 p.m. LAKEWOOD B&G Club

Champions Mentor Program

Communities in Schools of Lakewood

Communities in Schools of Lakewood is calling for more mentors to work with students in grades 4-10 throughout the Clover Park School District. CHAMPIONS stands for “Caring, Helping, Adults, Mentoring, Proudly, In, Our, Neighborhoods, and Schools.” People who help children and youth to succeed in school and life are real champions. A mentor is someone who helps a young person define goals and find ways to achieve them. By sharing fun activities and exposing a youth to new experiences, a mentor encourages positive choices, promotes high self-esteem, and supports academic achievement. In some cases, a mentor changes the course of a person’s life. CISL - Champions Mentor

SKILL After School Program

Communities in Schools of Lakewood

CISL works closely with the Clover Park School District and several community partners and service clubs to provide a wide-range of after-school resources for children who need extra support in order to reach grade level and improve social skills. Certified teachers, para-professionals and trained youth/adult volunteers work together to help children build their math, reading, language, fitness, computer, and life skills. There is no cost to parents and free bus transportation is also provided. SKILL After-School Programs are held at Tyee Park, Tillicum, Oakwood, and Southgate Elementary schools as well as Lochburn Middle School. CISL - SKILL After School

Lakewood’s Promise

Lakewood’s Promise seeks access to provide youth with five fundamental resources – or “wrap-around supports” that young people need for success in life: Caring Adults , Safe Places , A Healthy Start , Effective Education , Opportunities to Help Others . For more information, go to Lakewood's Promise

Lakewood Early Learning

Clover Park School District

The City of Lakewood partnered with the Clover Park School District in 2011 to help fulfill the mission to “teach each child what he or she needs to know to succeed and contribute to the community”. The Lakewood Early Learning Alignment program is designed to offer early learning providers training and support in their efforts to prepare young children for K-12 education. The program targets four Lakewood child care centers and their staff providing each site with District-adopted early learning curriculum and assessment materials, as well as training, on-going on-site coaching and technical assistance. Training during the first year of the program will focus on the use of developmentally appropriate assessment to guide future planning. Future training will focus on early education literacy and math. Lakewood Early Learning Alignment

Family Support Services

Metropolitan Development Council

Family support services provides home visitation, parenting strategies, child development, and support to families and youth. Family Support Services

Bridges

MultiCare

A Center for Grieving Children was established in 1988 in recognition of a need that existed within our community. Bereaved children were struggling to understand and reconcile the serious illness and death of a family member. A way to support the special concerns of bereaved children was needed. Unresolved grief due to lack of support and isolation often finds expression in ways that adversely affect the health and emotional well being of the bereaved child. It is BRIDGES’ aim that no child will grieve alone. BRIDGES program is a family grief support center for children between the ages of 4-18 years who have experienced the serious illness or death of a parent or sibling. BRIDGES provides a supportive, creative, and understanding environment for bereaved children and their families. It is a safe place where children can work and play at healing the losses that trouble them. BRIDGES

Lakewood Computer Clubhouse

Pierce College

The Lakewood Computer Clubhouse, an outreach of Pierce College, is a free after-school program that partners youth, ages 10-18, with technology and caring mentors. Lakewood Computer Clubhouse

Pierce County AIDS – Oasis

Oasis is a confidential drop-in and resource center for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and questioning (GLBTQ) youth ages 14-24 in Pierce County. OASIS Youth Center

ChildReach

Pierce County Community Services

is a free, mobile developmental education and information program serving families with children age birth to six years, with emphasis on children birth to thirty-six months of age. ChildReach supports parents/guardians in their roles of educating, nurturing and promoting their children's development through enhanced parenting skills and knowledge. ChildReach

Access

TACID

TACID plays a major part in the community serving as the hub of information, support activities, and advocacy by and for people living with disabilities. TACID not only invests in knowledge for people with disabilities, but also invests in knowledge for those without. TACID

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