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 Working Toward Success for Youth
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Vision
Covington Partners in Prevention empowers the community to nurture its youth to reach their full potential in a safe and thriving Covington.
Mission Covington Partners in Prevention collaborates with the schools of Covington and the community to: prevent drug use and violence; strengthen families; promote physical and mental health; and train and support staff.
Values
We believe in:
- The dignity, worth and potential of all students
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The achievement of "Destination: Graduation"
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The power of collaboration and partnerships
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The ability of all students to become successful citizens
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Healthy lifestyles for all
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Providing prevention services to remove barriers |
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2009 Fundraising Campaign
$145,453 needed
to meet our goal! |
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Join the following businesses and individuals in becoming
PARTNERS in Prevention through financial contributions:
Amos Shinkle Townhouse
Bed and Breakfast, C-Forward, and Duck Manor Promotions
For more information,
contact Stacie Strotman
at (859) 392-3179 |
| Our Coalition Partners |
Click on the following logos to learn more about our partners.
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Greetings!
In this issue, we will be sharing several stories of our own "active agents" who are making things happen in Covington. We also will let you know about an easy way you can support fundraising just by doing what you already might do!
We hope that you will be able to attend the next partners' Coalition meeting on Tuesday, June 9th from 11:30 am -1:30 pm at the Center for Great Neighborhoods at 1650 Russell Street in Covington.
Your support and involvement make it possible to bring services that help the youth of Covington succeed. Thank you for helping us make good things happen here in Covington! |
| Fundraising Focus:
River Run and GoodSearch.com |
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Two simple ways the community is helping Covington Partners in Prevention meet the fundraising goal!
Community partners showed their support and helped raise  money by running or walking in the 13th Annual RGI River Run, a 5K event held on Saturday, May 23rd in Newport. Covington Partners in Prevention received a portion of the proceeds based on how many runners marked Covington Partners in Prevention as their team. Thanks to Kicks for Kids and all who ran or walked on behalf of Covington youth!
How many times each day do you use yahoo or google to search for some obscure information? Here's a very simple way to make those searches count for the benefit of the children of Covington: www.GoodSearch.com. GoodSearch is a search engine, powered by Yahoo! search, which donates 50 percent of its revenue, roughly a penny per search, to the charities designated by its users. Once you are at the site, type in Covington Partners in Prevention as your cause, and then use GoodSearch exactly as you would any other search engine. Click here for directions on how to make GoodSearch your homepage or make GoodSearch the default search box on your browser. We've tested it out both at home and at work, and have had no increase in spam or other problems. You'll be surprised how quickly those pennies add up! |
| Family Literacy Nights |
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Two Family Literacy Nights brought families together to share time through READING
At April's  Family Literacy Nights, held at Prince of Peace and St. Augustine schools, parents and children shared meals together, read to each other and listened to "celebrity" readers, all to emphasize the fun in reading. The turnout was amazing! Nearly 200 people attended from the six ACUE (Alliance for Catholic Urban Education) schools. Families enjoyed dinner, and each child received a book to take home.
Partners included ACUE, Covington Partners in Prevention, and the Blue Marble bookstore. In addition, Patti Richards, from the Kenton County Public Library, talked to parents about the programs available at the library and promoted the library's Summer Reading Program.
Great job to all who were involved! You are making things happen by encouraging families to spend time together and promoting reading for pleasure, one of the 20 internal Developmental Assets.
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| Mentoring Match of the Month |
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Celebrating volunteers - one match at a time
Some of you may have met this amazing match in March when they were honored at the Tenth Annual Meeting. Sara and Whitley have been matched together since Whitley was in 7th grade. Whitley will be graduating from Holmes High School this year, but they hope that their relationship will continue to grow for years to come.
Sara Ashworth, a teacher at Thomas Edison Elementary, first met Whitley in the second grade and stayed in contact with  Whitley throughout her primary education as her Arts and Humanities teacher. When Whitley moved to middle school, Sara became her mentor. Over the last six years, they have shared Christmas cookie baking, museum visits, jewelry making classes, movies, theatre events, school projects, choir performances, trips to school and her mom's, zoo visits, phone chats, award banquets, birthday parties, and more.
After graduation, Whitley plans to attend Northern Kentucky University in the fall, perhaps in a medicine-related field. She credits Sara for encouraging her to further her education by pursuing college, "I am very thankful for that, and I am also thankful to have her in my life."
Congratulations to Sara and Whitley for committing to each other and building a lifelong friendship!
You, too, can make a difference in the life of a youth! Become a Mentor and make good things happen.
Click the icon below to fill out an application.
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| School Campus Clean Ups |
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Students at Two Rivers Middle School and Holmes Junior/Senior High School made their campuses a little cleaner
Armed with trash bags and "litter getters," a group of students, all participants in the Leadership and Resiliency Programs (LRP)  at Two Rivers Middle School and Holmes Junior/ Senior High School, got a little dirty to make their school campuses cleaner on April 21st and 22nd.
They braved the rainy weather to pick up trash around their schools and show that they are leaders in their community. Paige, a student at Holmes, was proud of her work. "I felt like I made a difference in my community," she said.
Their volunteering, an important aspect of the Leadership and Resiliency Program, was also a part of Great American Clean-Up and Youth Service Day organized by the City of Covington and the Center for Great Neighborhoods. After just an hour, the 13 students at Two  Rivers Middle School were able to fill up 5 large black bags full of trash and the 19-student group at Holmes Junior/ Senior High School filled up 7 bags!
Thank you, LRP students, for making things a little cleaner at your schools. What great leaders!
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| Healthy Cooking Tips from the Cafeteria Cooking Challenge |
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Easy ways to make a typical meal just a little healthier
The staff of Covington schools' cafeterias have started a trend! They participated in a challenge to create the very healthiest meals possible using ingredients they already had on their list of available foods. The results were amazing! They produced attractive, nutritious, award-winning foods that brought excitement and fun to the cafeteria staff and the students.
Here are some tips from what they learned. We all can use them at home, too!
- Use whole wheat grains instead of low-nutrient white refined grains for bread, noodles, and rice. Look for whole wheat flour as an ingredient on the nutrition label.
- Instead of using canned fruit or veggies, use fresh produce or frozen produce. Most canned goods have added sodium or sugar, while frozen foods do not.
- Try to add an extra veggie or fruit to every meal - veggies during breakfast are a great way to start your day!
- Swap out fatty meats with lean meat cuts such as top round steak and bottom round roast, lean cut pork chops, and turkey alternatives to bacon and hot dogs.
- Switch to low-fat or reduced-fat condiments such as mayonnaise, sour cream, and salad dressings.
- Drink and cook with 1% or skim milk instead of whole or 2% milk.
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