Career Day at the Mid Town Family Resource Center

Today we are having a Career Day at the summer program here at the Mid Town Family Resource Center. The summer day program has been bustling with activity; we have had over 50 children participating already this summer! The main support (funding!) for the summer program is an Explorations Grant from the WV Statewide Afterschool Network, which provides staffing support for our dedicated, hard working staff. The focus has been to offer middle and high school students summer learning opportunities. This Career Day is part of a national "Summer Learning Day"- focusing on making people aware of the importance of providing high quality summer learning opportunities for youth. The National Center for Summer Learning is leading efforts to urge Congress to provide up to $300 million in funding for summer programs as part of its FY 2010 budget.
Today we will be having 8 people from the community come in to talk about their professions to the youth in the program. Talk about community engagement! This is both a great opportunity for the youth to hear about these professions, but a great way to bring civic minded people into our agency to see what we do!!! Stay tuned for a follow up report!!!