Breakfast Buddies

Recognizing the Problem: 

  • Drugs and lack of educational focus or opportunities seem to play a role in crime, poverty, and other long-term concerns

Action Plan: Breakfast Buddies Program

  • Goal is to give adults and children time to develop relationships
    • Identify students
    • School cafeteria agrees to prepare food
    • Strive for weekly meetings throughout the school year
    • 20 mentors and students target for initial program
    • 30 week test run for program
    • Review and reassess program results
    • Assess additional marketing and expansion potential – go to implement County Wide program
  • Identify a group to organize administration of the program
    • Spoke with Ministerial Association
    • 37 letters written to Greenfield Churches
  • Community wide committee was headed by group from Trinity Park United Methodist Church
    • Would work with pilot run through May 2003

Group Members:

  • Paul C. Enyart
  • Mary Legan
  • Debbie Shipp
  • Leslee Wheatley
  • Christopher York