This is a yearly program that runs concurrent with the School calendar. We provide nutritious supplemental food each weekend for children who have been identified as being “at risk of hunger” on the weekends. Each week we pack bags with 6 small meals, a minimum of 2 snacks, shelf stable milk, and occasional extra treats. On Fridays we deliver these bags to the school to distribute to those students who have been identified as “at risk”. Each month we include a handout that contains coloring sheets, puzzles, etc. that help teach children about nutrition and making wise food choices. This past school year we distributed over twenty thousand pounds of food through this program.
2021
Wilcox Area Chamber of Commerce Student Ambassador Scholarship (Revised)
As revised, this project is intended to enhance the WACC Chamber Ambassador Program by providing technology upgrades, training supplies, shirts and nametags. These items will help build a stronger leadership program, create digital training and program content, enhance the guest speaker experience, and provide a more professional and uniform appearance for Ambassadors at Chamber events. The Program was created to help prepare students in Wilcox County by teaching the inner workings of local economy and government, teaching valuable skills, and teaching the importance of contributing to our diverse and rural county in Alabama.
HIPPY Conecuh
HIPPY Conecuh is a home visiting program that focuses on parent-involved and parent -directed early learning. HIPPY services are offered to parents, who then work with their 2 year old-through 4 year old. HIPPY helps parents prepare their children for success in school and beyond. HIPPY supports parents as their children’s first teacher by providing them tools, skills, and confidence to teach their young children at home.
HIPPY is a 30 week program of activities, with a Parent Educator visiting the home once per week. Each week the Parent Educator will deliver and role play with the parent one curriculum packet. The curriculum has the domains, Literacy, Language, Science, and Math. All props and supplies are provided for each family. A group meeting (2 Hours) is held every six weeks that will cover an adult educational program and a program for the children. Everyone is served dinner due to the lateness of the meeting. The meetings are held at a community building outside of the Conecuh County Extension Office.
Outdoor Learning Center
This Outdoor Learning Center was envisioned as a result of the unprecedented Pandemic that begin in 2020. The objective of this Multi-functional Environmental Education and Community Hub is to serve as an outdoor learning center. This outdoor learning center will provide the outside natural and safe environment as the background for continuous learning for students at Amelia Love Johnson High School and the adjacent community of Thomaston Alabama.
Monroe 4-H Life Skills Project
The goal of 4-H is to develop citizenship, leadership, responsibility and life skills of youth
through experiential programs and a positive youth development approach. The Monroe
County 4-H is seeking to enhance the 4-H experience for the youth of our county. It is
our mission to provide hands-on experiences and learning as an educational method
that directly involves the learner, by actively encouraging them to do something in order
to learn about it. In short, it is ‘learning by doing’. In order to provide the students of our
county with the best possible education, we are seeking funding to provide the program
materials necessary.