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Northwoods DREAM Monthly Snapshot August 2015 Program Happenings and Highlights
DREAM’s annual Time of Wonder Sailing trip happened this month! Youth went sailing off the coast of Maine for a week. This month DREAM welcomed three new AmeriCorps VISTA members to the team! Julia Dillavou, Kelsea Moulton, and Tiffany Trowbridge-Bernard will serve as Program Empowerment Directors with our other 10 programs throughout Vermont. Mentors came together to create a care package for a family that suddenly moved out of the neighborhood. Mentors wrote letters and sent pictures of their time together in DREAM. St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Wilder, VT donated brand new board games for the Northwoods Community Center. Youth have been busy learning the new games in the evenings!
Participants Mentees
Mentors
Total: 18 Females: 12 Males: 6
Total: 23 Females: 13 Males: 10
Weekly Programming with Children
Summer community intern, Gautam Babu, brought youth for a day trip to Stowe. The teens boys spent the day hiking, bouldering, and swimming in a freezing mountain stream! Mentors had three DREAM Fridays this month. Mentors and mentees played games on the green, went to a petting zoo, and participated in a scavenger hunt around campus! For summer culminating, mentors brought all the mentees to The Montshire Museum. Summer community members, Mona Abdelghani and Gautam Babu held an end of summer BBQ and talent show at Northwoods. Youth went to the ocean at the end of the summer with Gautam Babu. For some of the youth, it was the first time they have seen the ocean and their first experience swimming in the freezing water! Youth have been working on writing thank you cards to the local churches that provided food for the summer lunch program. Program Empowerment Director, Kylie Edwards, held a back to school BBQ for the youth to get together once more before the start of school!
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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, Kylie Edwards Program Empowerment Director kylie@dreamprogram.org 802.338.8936