Community Outreach Opportunity Beginning This Thursday
Eastgate Elementary (where we did one of our Fall Frenzy events last fall) is seeking volunteers to help with a parent training they are doing at their school on Thursday evenings. Details are below. Please pass this along to your GROW Group members. If you don’t already have an outreach focus, consider serving as a group.
Even a few people helping just one time is a huge blessing to them!
“Great Families” Parent Training
Through the Kennewick Police Department, officers conduct 6-week parenting classes for 8-10 Eastgate families at a time. The families come and share dinner, and then the parents participate in the training while the children go to a classroom and have their own fun activities. The school would love to have groups (or 3-4 adults) come in and serve the meal (the food is already prepared by Yokes), and then help with the children’s activities. They also try to provide a raffle gift each week to help entice the families to participate, so donations of restaurant gift cards would also be appreciated. More than anything, though, they’d just love volunteers to help out.
The next 6-week sessions are:
Session One: Jan. 12, 19, 26, Feb. 2, 9, 16
Session Two: Feb. 23, Mar. 1, 8, 15, 22, 29
Contact: Principal Niki Arnold-Smith at 509.222.5400 or [email protected]