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