Just For Kids (JFK)
Just
For Kids
An
after-school program for Raub Middle School youth
Our Sessions run every Tuesday and Thursday from 2:30 to 4:15 p.m. during the school year.
Summer Program Proposal
The Church of the Mediator is preparing to offer a new summer version of our popular Just For Kids after-school program. Several Allentown churches, organizations and individuals have been meeting since December to plan the new six week program, to be centered here at the Mediator, with additional off-site activities as well.
This much-needed youth program will offer middle school students a safe place to have fun during the summer, and to learn family and community values. It will run from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. four days a week, Mondays through Thursdays, from July 9 through August 17.
Summer programming possibilities include indoor/outdoor games, basketball, cooking, creative craft and photography, electronic games, ping pong, theatre games and storytelling. St. Stephen's Church and Christ Lutheran Church are making their gymnasium and auditorium/stage areas available as well, as our own gym is too warm in the summer.
In addition, several community service projects will be completed by the children, including neighborhood cleanups and preparing pies and pastry for area soup kitchens.
The students themselves have been asked to come up with a name for the new program - we'll keep you posted!
How
can you help? Volunteers are needed for this important new
outreach program.
Volunteers will be asked to share their time for at least
six hours/two days a week for two weeks. More than 24 volunteers
are needed if this program is to be a success. Four part time
program assistants will also be hired for the six week period.
For more information on how you can help, please contact George Miller, JFK Director, at geobmiller@aol.com or call 610-434-0155 on Tuesdays or Th8ursdays, or 484-619-5237 anytime.
VISION STATEMENT: Just For Kids at the Church of the Mediator creates a partnership with Raub Middle School and the community providing an after-school program for Raub Middle School 6th-8th grade youth. This program provides a welcoming and safe place that offers wholesome recreational and life skills activities.
Just For Kids (JFK) is a free after school program for 6th-8th grade Raub Middle School Students. In partnership with Raub Middle School and the community, JFK is an important outreach ministry of the Episcopal Church of the Mediator where the program is held. It is administered by a part-time paid Director and is dependent on volunteers, donations and grants to make it possible.
Begun in 1992 this after-school program has evolved as the student population has changed. The program is offered two afternoons a week for approximately twenty weeks over the course of the school year in an effort to serve the children and families of downtown Allentown.
Many of the students who attend are at-risk youth. Our structure and attendance has varied since its inception in an attempt to keep current with the needs of those we serve. Currently we offer five four-week sessions with an average attendance 21 students.
Activities are offered in a "club" setting around the primary interest areas of basketball, cooking, arts & crafts and games. Other activities have been added when deemed appropriate.
There is a JFK Advisory Council made up of volunteers and members of the parish, Raub Middle School and the community, which meets regularly to oversee the JFK program and support the work of the Director, who serves as an ex-officio member.
REVISED & ADOPTED 2/17/08