About Community Connections

	Community Connections
Year 7 Update (pdf) Year 5 Update (pdf) Winter 2004 Highlights (pdf) Brochure (pdf) Announcing Community Connections Mid Term Report - April 2003 (pdf)	Community Connections offers quality afterschool opportunities for students and adults of all ages in Berlin, Calais, East Montpelier, Middlesex, Montpelier and Worcester. Approximately 1,100 of our community’s children participated in Community Connections programs during the 2006-2007 school year. They engaged in academic assistance programs like reading and homework clubs, computer skills programs, physical activities embedded with fitness, wellness and nutrition learning, arts programming, natural and environmental sciences studies, drop out prevention, mentoring, adventure-based learning, summer camps, field trips and more. Community Connections programming is based on prevention best practices that protect and inoculate our youth against risk; activities bolster teamwork and self-esteem, build assets and life skills, and enhance academic achievement. Community Connections was started in June 2001 by a federal 21st Century Community Learning Center grant written by school and community members from the Washington Central and Montpelier school districts who wanted to provide opportunities for unsupervised children after school. During the four years of the original grant, we moved toward a fee-based business model and began to seek funds from diversified sources: user fees, childcare subsidies, grants, town appropriations, businesses, donations and school budgets. Our programs in Berlin, Calais, East Montpelier, Middlesex and Worcester are now licensed afterschool care providers by the State of Vermont. We are working towards licensing our program at Union Elementary also. We want to continue to serve all families, regardless of their ability to pay. While we can sustain some core programming through a fee-based model, there are vital components to our operations that do not lend themselves to fee generation: homework clubs, teen centers, mentoring, youth outreach, and central administration. As a result, we continue to pursue grant opportunities and are launching a campaign to start an endowment to supplement our revenue from fees. Over the last six years Community Connections has touched over 50% of the 2,700 area school children. In some schools participation exceeds 85%!
	Green School Project is an organization whose membership - schools, libraries, non-profit organizations, and businesses - are committed to reducing waste and helping the environment. Their program has two objectives: to reduce stress on the environment and to provide your school, library, organization, or company with extra funding. Community Connections has joined in the effort to REDUCE, REUSE and RECYCLE while raising money that will go towards providing the people of Central Vermont with community education and after school opportunities. Bring your used printer and toner cartridges, and dead cell phones to our Central Office and join our efforts.

Community Connections

Winter 2004 Highlights (pdf)

Mid Term Report - April 2003 (pdf)

Community Connections offers quality afterschool opportunities for students and adults of all ages in Berlin, Calais, East Montpelier, Middlesex, Montpelier and Worcester.

Approximately 1,100 of our community’s children participated in Community Connections programs during the 2006-2007 school year. They engaged in academic assistance programs like reading and homework clubs, computer skills programs, physical activities embedded with fitness, wellness and nutrition learning, arts programming, natural and environmental sciences studies, drop out prevention, mentoring, adventure-based learning, summer camps, field trips and more. Community Connections programming is based on prevention best practices that protect and inoculate our youth against risk; activities bolster teamwork and self-esteem, build assets and life skills, and enhance academic achievement.

Community Connections was started in June 2001 by a federal 21st Century Community Learning Center grant written by school and community members from the Washington Central and Montpelier school districts who wanted to provide opportunities for unsupervised children after school. During the four years of the original grant, we moved toward a fee-based business model and began to seek funds from diversified sources: user fees, childcare subsidies, grants, town appropriations, businesses, donations and school budgets. Our programs in Berlin, Calais, East Montpelier, Middlesex and Worcester are now licensed afterschool care providers by the State of Vermont. We are working towards licensing our program at Union Elementary also.

We want to continue to serve all families, regardless of their ability to pay. While we can sustain some core programming through a fee-based model, there are vital components to our operations that do not lend themselves to fee generation: homework clubs, teen centers, mentoring, youth outreach, and central administration. As a result, we continue to pursue grant opportunities and are launching a campaign to start an endowment to supplement our revenue from fees.

Over the last six years Community Connections has touched over 50% of the 2,700 area school children. In some schools participation exceeds 85%!

Green School Project is an organization whose membership - schools, libraries, non-profit organizations, and businesses - are committed to reducing waste and helping the environment. Their program has two objectives: to reduce stress on the environment and to provide your school, library, organization, or company with extra funding.

Community Connections has joined in the effort to REDUCE, REUSE and RECYCLE while raising money that will go towards providing the people of Central Vermont with community education and after school opportunities.

Bring your used printer and toner cartridges, and dead cell phones to our Central Office and join our efforts.