Grant Award Announcement
Awendaw Regional Outreach Center, (AROC)
Receives A Grant for its GDLF-Summer Reading & 2024
About the Award:
The DGLF Youth Summer Reading recognizes excellence in Youth Summer Reading.
It is a testament to our commitment to improve the health, educational attainment, and human welfare of at-risk youth, young adult and family in Charleston and Berkely Counties through Literacy programming.
Key Achievements:
To keep students engaged in reading throughout the summer to increase reading comprehension, increase reading skills, increase knowledge base, encourage life-long reading habits.
Parent/student survey provides relevant data or statistical results.
Quotes:
Bettye Simmons-Weeks CEO/Founder, Executive Director at Awendaw Regional Outreach Center, (AROC):
“Receiving the Dollar General Literacy Foundation Grant is a tremendous, monumental honor for me because I am not a professional grant writer. It reflects the hard work and dedication of our mission to provide a service that it needs for our community from AROC’s infancy.”
One of my favorites Quotes
The substance of life is finding God’s purpose and fulfilling it.
Until you do that you are not really living.
Purpose is that dream that won’t leave you, the passion that won’t quit,
the idea that is consistent and persistent and won’t go away.
“We are thrilled to be recognized for our contributions to our community.”
We will continue to target students who are new readers, below grade level readers, assist readers with learning disabilities to feel capable to achieve to build / rebuild self-confidence in self-worth.
Future Goals:
· AROC will continue to build programs to improve lives in literacy for our community and families in order to continue making a positive impact.
Finding out what is needed and continue to build program and services to improve lives through literacy programming.
We will be hosting a Summer Reading challenge for student and parent involvement with registrational Luncheon for summer reading challenge. We will have two speakers to kick start the program to include a youth summit “Let’s Talk” for students.
Youth Literacy
Our Youth Summer Reading Program targets in-school youths for the summer to prevent the summer slide. We have collaborated with our county libraries in Charleston, Berkeley Counties for new readers, below grade level reading, and assist students with learning disabilities in our rural communities from See Wee to Jamestown to improve the reading and math proficiency through our project 365.
