Community
Family Club Success Story
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SUCCESS
STORY
Thanks to the 21st Century Community Learning Center (CCLC) at Louise
Wolff Kahn Elementary, Camp Fire USA Lone Star Council is touching the
lives of dozens of families in this school community.
Through the Community Family Club program at this school, students and
their families are brought together throughout the year for shared meals
and fun activities. This has been a wonderful experience for many of the
participants — but especially for the families of two brothers.
The two Ibarra families live next door to each other in an apartment
community just across the street from Louise Wolff Kahn Elementary,
where Camp Fire USA Lone Star Council has launched its most successful
Community Family Club. Mario and Rogelio Ibarra joined the club while
taking English-as-a-Second Language through the programs that Camp Fire
USA has set up at the school through the 21st CCLC. The Community Family
Club program has not only brought Rogelio Ibarra, his wife and three
children closer to Mario Ibarra, his two daughters and son, but it has
enabled them all to share their kindness and loving spirits with the
rest of the community.
Since joining the club in April 2002, they families have never missed a
single meeting or field trip. They are always the first to participate
in activities at meetings. As such a close family, the recognize the
importance of involving the entire family unit in educational youth
development activities. They share that value with new families who join
the club. They are always warm and welcoming to the other children and
adults, especially to non-traditional families, such as single-parent
homes.
Each of the Ibarras helps to create a family for the other members of
the club. For those children who do not see their fathers often, the
brothers step in to provide the children with a male role-model. Some of
the most active members in the club, the Ibarras have helped to make
this club the largest and most successful Community Family Club in the
Lone Star Council. Setting a wonderful example for other families, the
Ibarras are leaders in their community and blessings to Camp Fire USA.
Copyright � 2006 Camp
Fire USA Lone Star Council 4411 Skillman St. Dallas, Texas 75206
Telephone: 214.824.1122
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