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The Village Kids Club

To provide a safe, nurturing & secure environment where youth can grow in their social awareness & emotional intelligence, and reach their full potential. 

Please complete and submit a registration form.

Registration Forms:

Growing up for children these days isn’t easy.  We see teens in society who struggle.  In this fast-paced world, as children mature and grow they can become strangers to themselves.  The bewildered young person begins to ask “Who am I?”  Without strong identities they will be, or do, whatever they think others want.

 

Parents often wonder, “What can I do?”  Many parents work long hours or shift work and many are single parents.  Some grandparents have stepped in as primary caregivers to their grandchildren.

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Seeing this, and having lived it ourselves, we at St. Andrew began to think “What can we do to help?”

 

As a result, we have developed an after-school program which we believe can change the trajectory of young people’s lives. 

 

“The Village Kids Club” is a secure environment where children feel safe, it provides an opportunity for those in grades 2 to 8, to learn great skills and be mentored by mature adults.​

A nutritious dinner is included.

Some Activities Include

  • Etiquette & Protocols

  • Baking / Cooking

  • Scrapbooking

  • Drama

  • Jewellery Making

  • Sewing / Knitting / Crocheting

  • Woodworking

  • Prayer

  • Music

  • & more!

Why not share from the abundance of your life? Become a mentor!

A mentor helps young people explore and discern the world in which they live, to do so authentically, with appropriate behaviours and morals conducive to building strong healthy self esteem.

 

This is an opportunity for you to make a positive impact in someone’s life, pouring the blessings of your life into ‘little lives’ and sharing from your experiences. As you connect and listen, you will help young people, along with us, learn what we learned along the way, including those skills and arts learned from older generations, skills that are being lost in today's fast-paced culture. Children will be better equipped to navigate through life and the issues they will face.

 

Your help just may change the trajectory of a young person's life in a positive way.

 

We become the safety net. We become the ‘village it takes to raise a child’.

 

When young people are able to solve their problems with reasonable success and feel increasingly confident
in their own abilities to cope, periods of struggle gradually become less frequent and less intense.

 

They begin to trust themselves and draw upon the solid resources and coping skills they have learned and nurtured within themselves.

 

Teenage mentors are also welcome.

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TO BECOME A MENTOR,

complete an application form and email it to standrewalliston@toronto.anglican.ca

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For additional information please contact the above email.

* All mentors must pass a background clearance and a thorough training process.*

To provide a safe, nurturing & secure environment, where youth can build strategies to improve their reading & writing skills and receive support with homework completion.

BrainiACTS is an affordable literacy and academic support program for children between grades 1-6. It is offered as a community outreach mission program on Tuesday afternoons from 3.30 p.m to 5.00 p.m.

 

The program aims to provide a safe, nurturing & secure environment, where youth can build strategies to improve their reading & writing skills and receive support with math and homework completion.

 

In the Fall of 2019, St. Andrew Anglican Church introduced BrainiACTS.  BrainiACTS is a once a week, after school club that offers individual or small-group assistance with reading/literacy skills and homework completion. 

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Building relationships, increasing confidence and developing goal setting strategies will help your child become a life long learner!

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It is projected that the number of adults with low-literacy skills in Canada will increase from 12.4 million in 2006 to 15 million in 2031. (www.sac-oac.ca)

 

Schools and teachers are continually being asked to do more with less funding and some families are stressed, both emotionally and financially.  As a result, some children may fall through the cracks and become part of the above statistic.

 

It has been said that literacy is an essential foundational skill in the 21st century.  Research has stated that people with low literacy skills have much lower employment rates which leads to an increased risk of poverty and the need for social assistance.  It is a reality that there is a negative impact on a person’s life who has low literacy skills, no matter what stage of life they are at – youth, adult or senior.  Connections between low literacy skills and crime have also been suggested.

 

During Grades one to three children are learning to read.  After Grade three, children transition to reading to learn.  BrainiACTS focuses on children to help them build the foundational skills they need to learn to read, so they can read to learn.

 

Does your child have difficulty reading or need additional support? Are you interested in accessing an affordable and creative option to support your child’s reading development?  Complete the online registration form to begin the process. 

 

For more information contact Sheila Dickson, program coordinator, at

brainiacts.standrewanglican@gmail.com

Registration Forms:

Change a life, become a volunteer tutor!

Volunteer adult and teenage tutors are needed to help this program continue to grow.  Give the gift of reading to a child within our community. 

Changing lives through literacy!  Literacy is a skill that enables you to read, write and use math in everyday life.

 

Our volunteers help young people develop their literacy skills through a guided program and fun activities, in a safe and nurturing environment.  Your help just may change the trajectory of a young person's life in a positive way.

 

This is an opportunity for you to make a positive impact in someone’s life, pouring the blessings of your life into ‘little lives’ and sharing from your experiences. As you connect and listen, you will help young people be better equipped to navigate through life and the issues they will face. 

 

When young people are able to solve their problems with reasonable success and feel increasingly confident in their own abilities to read and write, periods of struggle gradually become less frequent and less intense.

 

They begin to trust themselves and draw upon the solid resources and coping skills they have learned and nurtured within themselves.

 

Through your efforts, we continue to be the safety net. We continue to be the ‘village it takes to raise a child’.​

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TO BECOME A VOLUNTEER TUTOR, Please complete and submit an application form.

and email it to brainiacts.standrewanglican@gmail.com

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For additional information please contact the above email.

* All mentors must pass a background clearance and a thorough training process.*

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Anglican Church

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Alliston, ON L9R 1H8

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