by Sharon | Mar 3, 2015 | News and Information
Photography by Chuck Wainwright
On Monday, March 2nd, the birthday of author Dr. Seuss, children from PEACE, Inc. Head Start celebrated Read Across America Day at the Rosamond Gifford Zoo. They read The Foot Book with Congressman John Katko, met the Cat in the Hat, and visited the animals.
PEACE, Inc. also received a grant from the Literacy Coalition of Onondaga County to purchase a collection of Imagination Library books for each Head Start / Early Head Start classroom in Syracuse. All infants, toddlers and preschool age children residing in Syracuse are eligible to enroll in Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, which provides a specially selected, high-quality, age-appropriate book every month until a child’s fifth birthday.
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by Sharon | Jan 26, 2015 | News and Information
Time Warner Cable News Central NY’s Brad Vivacqua interviewed our own Oscar Vergara in a great story on the Big Brothers Big Sisters program. To view the clip, click here: Mentors needed for CNY Big Brothers Big Sisters program
For more on getting involved, click here: More on PEACE, Inc. Big Brothers Big Sisters
by Sharon | Jan 9, 2015 | News and Information
PEACE, Inc. is pleased to announce the expansion of its Foster Grandparent Program into all 131 first and second grade classrooms in Syracuse. Foster Grandparents will spend at least 15 hours a week serving as positive role models and giving individual attention and encouragement to children who face social, emotional and academic obstacles to learning. Made possible by financial and programmatic support from the Syracuse City School District and the Corporation for National and Community Service, this partnership helps our young children develop the skills they need to be successful readers and students.
The Foster Grandparent Program is a Senior Corps service project that gives senior citizens the opportunity to share their lifetime of skills, talents and abilities with children. In improving the lives of the children they serve, Foster Grandparents enhance their own lives. By staying active and making valuable contributions in their community, Foster Grandparents experience improved health, welfare and quality of life. PEACE, Inc. has been placing Foster Grandparents in schools, child care and Head Start centers, and other programs for children and youth around Onondaga County since 1972.
PEACE, Inc. is actively seeking volunteers age 55 and older to become Foster Grandparents in Syracuse. For more information, please call 295-0719.
To start the Foster Grandparent application process right now, click here.
For more information about the Foster Grandparent program, click here.
To learn more about other PEACE, Inc. volunteer opportunities here in Onondaga County, click here.
If you’d like to learn about other ways you can help PEACE, Inc., click here.
Experienced Foster Grandparents gathered to celebrate the expansion at an event at McKinley-Brighton Elementary in November.
About PEACE, Inc.
Incorporated in 1968, PEACE, Inc. is a nonprofit community-based organization with the mission of helping people in the community realize their potential for becoming self-sufficient. PEACE, Inc. believes in the strength of the human spirit and is dedicated to changing lives by teaching people how to help themselves and support those around them. To this end, PEACE, Inc. provides a continuum of services for the entire family from infants to the elderly. The majority of individuals we serve have incomes placing them at or below the Federal Poverty Guidelines.
PEACE, Inc. is Onondaga County’s federally designated Community Action Agency. As part of the national network of Community Action Agencies, PEACE, Inc. seeks to help people become more self-sufficient by strengthening families, improving the conditions in which people live, encouraging people to own a stake in their own community, and developing partnerships with other organizations, businesses, and individuals to support these efforts.
PEACE, Inc. receives funding for its programs and services through a variety of federal, state, and local government sources, as well as from many foundations and corporations.
PEACE, Inc. offers programming and training to provide individuals and families with the necessary tools and skills to move from poverty to self-sufficiency.
by Sharon | Jan 9, 2015 | News and Information
PEACE, Inc. thanks Destiny USA, Coca-Cola, and our generous friends and neighbors who helped “Stuff the Truck” in Syracuse and made the season a little brighter for children.
At a special station set up in Destiny USA’s Canyon Area, near Santa, businesses and community members donated unwrapped new clothes, toys and pet supplies to help “stuff” a Coca-Cola truck for delivery. Gifts collected were donated to Big Brothers Big Sisters, Ronald McDonald House and Humane Association.
About Big Brothers Big Sisters
Big Brothers Big Sisters, a part of PEACE, Inc., matches children ages six through 12 with high school, college and adult mentors in school and community-based programs in Central New York. Mentors play an important role in children’s lives because they care, listen and serve as role models. Having a mentor helps children build confidence, increase social skills and improve academic achievement. Big Brothers Big Sisters has a lifetime impact on the children who participate.
About PEACE, Inc.
PEACE, Inc. is Onondaga County’s Community Action Agency, serving more than 15,000 people in Central New York annually through 20 different programs. The mission of PEACE, Inc. is helping people in the community realize their potential for becoming self-sufficient.
