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Birchwood DREAM Monthly Snapshot December 2016 Program Happenings and Highlights • DREAM hosted its annual Teen Retreat in December. Teens from across the state gathered in Montpelier for enriching discussion sessions, pizza, bowling, and laser tag! • Mentors held a holiday party for mentees in the Birchwood community center where they gifted each mentee a book picked out by their mentor as well as a letter with notes from all of the mentors! • After the holiday party, mentors and mentees said goodbye until 2017! • DREAM hosted its annual Teen Retreat in December. Teens from across the state gathered in Montpelier for enriching discussion sessions, pizza, bowling, and laser tag! Participants Mentees Total: 13
Mentors Total: 15
Weekly Programming with Children • Younger mentees went to Spare Time for an afternoon of bowling while older mentees spent time with their mentors at the cafeteria on Champlain’s campus. th • Birchwood DREAM held their culminating event on Friday, December 9 . Mentors and mentees went to Get Air in Williston, VT, for an afternoon of bouncing on trampolines! Thank you for your ongoing support of DREAM. If you would like additional or more detailed information, please contact me by email or by phone. DREAM big, Julia Dillavou VYT Americorps VISTA Program Empowerment Director Julia@dreamprogram.org 802.338.8979
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