Tag: Holbrook

United Way of Northern Arizona — Holbrook & Joseph City Get Ready for KinderCamp™

United Way of Northern Arizona’s signature program, KinderCamp™, is turning 20 this year and undergoing one of its biggest expansions yet.

This summer, our free camps are launching in Holbrook and Joseph City, joining existing sites in Flagstaff, Williams, and Pinetop-Lakeside.

Held in June, KinderCamp advances kindergarten readiness by preparing students with limited preschool experience transition successfully into kindergarten.

From the desk of:
Liz Archuleta
President & CEO
This vital foundational experience includes the instruction of early literacy skills such as: letters and sounds, numbers, classroom routines, cafeteria behavior, and how to work with others.

Students are still being accepted for KinderCamp programs. Click on the community below to fill out an interest form for your area:

Flagstaff
Williams
Pinewood-Lakeside
Holbrook
Joseph City

United Way of Northern Arizona — Developing a Teen Center Solution in Holbrook

Last year, United Way of Northern Arizona was a partner in a project to help teens in Navajo County survey their peers about current mental health issues facing youth in northeast Arizona.

One of the items to emerge from that survey was that teens in the area were eager for a space to call their own – a teen center.

Now Grow Arizona Workforce Network is pursuing a plan that would establish a facility to not only provide a safe and supportive environment for teens, but to develop the region’s future workforce.

Planning begins for Childhood Education Conference in Holbrook on Oct. 24

HOLBROOK — Community organizations are invited to participate as a exhibitor or vendor at the Childhood Education Conference on Saturday, Oct. 24 in Holbrook, conference committee organizers reported recently in a media release. “Our conference has grown in size and…