Community Impact

Helping Children Do Well: Mentorship
Lead Agency: Northern Tier Industry & Education Consortium

Description: Northern Tier Industry & Education Consortium is a 501(c) (3) nonprofit organization dedicated to creating a highly skilled workforce in Northeastern Pennsylvania through the integration of school, employment, and training processes. The NTIEC offers Youth apprenticeships, Job shadowing, Hospital internships, Educators in the workplace, Career fairs, and Business professionals in the classroom. Each program brings many opportunities to students that they would not otherwise receive. Students are provided with hands-on work experiences as well as real‐life lessons. The NTIEC wants to make it so all students have the opportunity to jobs and future opportunities.

Helping Children Do Well: Mentorship
Lead Agency: Area Agency on Aging

Description: Foster Grandparent volunteers will work with children with special/exceptional needs or who are economically disadvantaged one-on-one or in small groups in kindergarten through twelfth-grade schools. The volunteers will assist the assigned children with classroom activities and academics, encourage children to stay on task and participate, encourage positive relationships with peers and adults and assist the child with improving academics and school attendance. Foster Grandparents also profoundly enrich their own lives. They find that doing something for others in their community does a lot for them, from earning extra income to having a sense of accomplishment.

Helping Children Do Well: Academic Readiness
Lead Agency: Susquehanna County Library System

Description: The Susquehanna Country Library System participates in a nationwide summer learning program. This free program features a fun-filled summer of activities, book giveaways, and field trips. Interactive programs will be available for all age groups, infants to teens.

Summer Reading programs help your children continue learning throughout the summer to combat the regression of skills that many children experience over the summer and to give them an opportunity to experiment with interactive STEAM tools and projects.

Helping Children Do Well: Family Development & Stability 
Lead Agency: Supporting Area Families Everyday (SAFE)

Description: SAFE (Supporting Area Families Everyday) was founded in 2017 by a domestic violence advocate as
well as a community collaborative to provide safe custody exchanges, supervised visitations, parenting education,
and awareness to families victimized by stalking, sexual assault, and domestic violence.
Parenting education classes will be given throughout Susquehanna County and at the Susquehanna County
Correctional Facility. Classes will be available at no cost regardless of age, race, or disability.
Supporting Area Families Everyday parenting classes are based on Becky Bailey’s curriculum, Managing
Emotional Mayhem. This curriculum is evidence-based and trauma-informed.
Classes focus on self-regulation. Learning how to regulate your own emotions is the key to teaching your child to
regulate their emotions so that together you can work through unwanted behaviors or poor decisions like hitting or
biting for example.
The goal of the program is to reduce the impact and long-term effects of parental separation on children by teaching
parents how to manage conflict, build stability, and minimize truancy. Certificates of Completion will be given once
the course has been completed.
Conscious Discipline is now recognized by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration’s
(SAMHSA’s) National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices (NREPP), which promotes the
adoption of scientifically established behavioral health interventions.

Helping Children Do Well: Mentorship & Academic Readiness 
Lead Agency: Supporters of Camp Archbald

Description: Supporters of Camp Archbald will reach out to girls in Susquehanna County foster care by working
with Children and Youth, Interfaith, Girl Scouts, daycare and Women’s Resource Center so they can build
experiences that will help them value a connection to nature at Ely Lake. They will have opportunities outside of the
foster system to make friends, have fun with their unit, and learn how to get along with others. These experiences
will teach them how to be brave, try new things, and be a leader. They will be taught new skills like archery, hiking,
flag ceremony, campfire cooking, swimming and boating and will be taught to find ways to express their feelings
and observations in arts, crafts, journaling and skits.

Helping Children Do Well: Child Wellness
Lead Agency: Women’s Resource Center

Description: Women’s Resource Center (WRC) will collaborate with The Children’s Center of Susquehanna and Wyoming Counties (CAC) to provide programming in schools and to local community groups and organizations. The WRC Teen Advocate will maintain a regular presence in middle and high schools through Susquehanna County. The CAC staff will focus on programs for elementary schools, pre-schools and head start programs. Both agencies will provide programming to local groups and organizations such as Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, Big Brothers/Big Sisters, and faith-based groups. WRC and the CAC will also provide training and education to staff and teachers within the schools and community organizations. Age-appropriate and current topical curriculums will continue to be developed.

In addition to education and outreach, counseling and advocacy services will be provided to those students and families experiencing dating violence, sexual abuse, stalking, domestic violence, and/or child abuse. The overall goal of the project is the educate and inform children and teens about the dynamics of domestic and sexual abuse among families and within dating relationships in order to promote an understanding of healthy relationships to break the intergenerational cycle of family violence and work toward our common goal of ending domestic and sexual violence in our community.

Helping Children Do Well: Mentorship
Lead Agency: Susquehanna County 4H

Description: 4-H is a youth development program that teaches leadership, citizenship, and life skills in project clubs all over Susquehanna County.

4-Hers participate in community service projects, fundraisers, project-specific training, clinics, leadership events, and competitions at 4-H State Achievement Days and the Harford Fair. 4-H is extremely educational and gives youth the opportunity to learn things that they might never learn anywhere else!