Fountain YMCA Teen Center V ol u me
Inside This Issue
Short Story By Sierra Barrow
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Thank You Chieko
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Drawing by Brittany Murray
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Because of the YMCA...
1,
I s su e
We will be open!
Summer Activities:
Date:
pools, City Rock,
Days:
Space Foundation)
Monday—Thursday 10:00a.m.—3:00p.m.
Teressa Johnson
fees for field trips
21st Century Program Director
Welte Education Center 330 Lyckman Dr Fountain, CO 80817
were worth
Educational and
“It was a fun filled
fun clubs (music,
adventure. Filled with laughs and acceptance.”
Outdoor games
- Dani Osborne
Career building
“Positive influences,
day or $110 a month
*There may be extra
Plus the activities
- Jacob Hiser
engineering, etc.)
Non-Member: $10 a
during the summer.
opportunities
Students!
Questions, Comments, Ideas?
the positive influence
attending.”
writing,
day or $80 a month
ppymca.org
“It was nice to have
Volunteer
FREE to Welte YMCA Member: $7 a
719.382.1562
Field trips (Local
June 2nd—July 24th
Price:
Teressa.johnson@ppymca.org
SUMMER
WE ARE OPEN THIS SUMMER
Time:
3
3
opportunities
had fun and a lot of
Positive role
- Melissa Hiser
laughs.”
models
Why is it important for my child to attend summer programming? Studies show that most students lose about two months of grade level equivalency in math computation skills over the summer months. Low -income students also lose more than two months of reading achievement (Cooper, 1996).
More than half of the
Parents consistently cite
achievement gap between
summer as the most
lower- and higher-income
difficult time to ensure
youth can be explained by
that their children have
unequal access to summer
productive things to do
learning opportunities. As
(Duffett et al, 2004).
a result, low-income youth are less likely to graduate from high school or enter college (Alexander et al, 2007).