Kids Club Wins Award
here to see the Community
Council’s Newsletter on the Award
(Dallas, TX)
� Camp Fire USA Lone Star Council�s Kids Club program has been named the
recipient of the Community Council of Greater Dallas�s 2002 Excellence in
Human Service Programming award. The announcement was made last night at the
Community Council�s annual meeting, at Temple Emanu-El.
�We are
incredibly happy to have been named the recipients of this important award,�
says Tim James, executive director of Camp Fire USA Lone Star Council. �It is
an honor to join the ranks the other agencies that have received this honor in
the past.�
Kids Club is
the 20th recipient of this prestigious honor, which is awarded to the
single program whose work is making the greatest strides towards changing lives
in our community. An apartment-based after school program, Kids Club is provided
to children at absolutely no cost to their parents.
�Without
Kids Club, most of these children would be alone for hours each day,� says
Beverly Williams, the program�s director. �By eliminating the cost barrier,
we can provide service to youth who would never otherwise have anyone to care
for them after school.�
Having been
named the �official provider of after school care� for the Apartment
Association of Greater Dallas, the Kids Club program now reaches over 1500
children each year. With program sites at almost 30 low-income apartment
communities, Kids Club reaches children from all over Dallas. Despite this
success, however, the program�s leaders believe that there is still a great
deal more to do.
�We�re
committed to expanding this program to every single apartment community where
there are children who need us,� says James. �With thousands of local
children alone during the most dangerous hours of the day, we still have a lot
of work to do.�
The Kids Club program has been formed to address the
incredible need for after school programs in the Dallas area. According to the Dallas
County Criminal Justice Community Planning Committee, there are only 30,000
after school slots available for the 136,000+ children with working parents (and
the majority of these are reserved for high-income families, according to
Children�s Aid Society). This is why crime triples when the school bell rings
� there simply are too many children who do not receive the guidance, support
and adult leadership that they need outside of school.
Thanks to
Kids Club, however, this number is getting lower every day.
For more
information, contact Jeremy Gregg at 214 824 1122 or by e-mail at [email protected]
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