(1/5/09) After School Program in need of help

To all Child Development Graduate Students:

My name is Leigh Cooper and I am running an after-school program for
children ages 5-11 at the Claredon Hills public housing development.
The development is located right off campus on route 16 and we provide
homework help and run educational activities twice a week from 3-5
p.m. Our goal is to create a self-sustaining program within their
community to give children a safe and productive place to go after
school, especially because a large majority of their parents work. Our
program just started last semester at Claredon Hills and this coming
semester will be joining forces with a similar group based in the
Mystic Valley Learning Center to share volunteers and knowledge about
what has been successful with the children. What we are looking for is
one or two graduate students to volunteer with the program once or
twice a week for a few hours to give feedback on how the program is
running and what it could use and to aid us in properly disciplining
the children. This is a great!
opportunity to get some field experience and we could really use the
expertise of those more formally educated in child development.
Unfortunately at this point in the programs development I don't think
I can arrange to have this offered for any type of official course
credit but eventually once the program is more established I will
contact the head of the department to try and arrange it. Our program
should begin again in early February and while the days of the week
the program will be running are to be established, they will most
likely be Mondays and Thursdays.

If you have any interest please contact me at Leigh.Cooper@tufts.edu

Thank you and I hope you all had a wonderful holiday and new years!
Leigh