Wabash Pastoral Leadership Program
Education
Early Childhood Education
This PDF of PowerPoint Slides is beneficial because it overviews the impact of childhood poverty, as well as the impact of quality preschool systems, and how to make those quality ones affordable and accessible. Although this Powerpoint is centered around Indianapolis, information could be used on a broader context.
http://childcareaware.org/parents-and-guardians
For Child Care 101, helpful tools on Child Care, or Child Care Resources, this website offers a multitude of information. This website may be beneficial for new parents within your congregations who are trying to find information on selecting the appropriate child care services, as well what Indiana has to offer.
http://ceep.indiana.edu/projects/PDF/PB_V11N2_2013_EPB.pdf
This PDF looks at questions such as: Why Should Indiana Implement Prekindergarten Programs? How Should Prekindergarten be Designed? What is the State’s Role in a Publicly-Funded Prekindergarten Program? Pre-K Funding and Cost Estimates: What are the Potential Costs to Indiana?
https://www.indianacareerconnect.com/gsipub/index.asp?docid=8
This website goes over two different early childhood services. The first is Head Start, which serves low income children between the ages of three and five, providing a wide range of services to meet Educational, Health, Parent Involvement, and Social Services goals. The second is Early Head Start: This program provides the benefits of early childhood development services to low income families with infants and toddlers under the age of three, and pregnant mothers. The purpose of Early Head Start is to enhance children's physical, social, emotional and cognitive development, enable parents to be better caregivers and better teachers to their children; and help parents meet their own goals, including economic independence.
These websites offer a wide range of topics from whole child education, early childhood education, options for older adults, people without high school diploma, and people out of prizon to work and receive their education, information over high school and college education, and ideas for Church and school partnerships.
Websites
Whole Child Education
http://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/wscc/components.htm
This website looks at ten areas (Health Education; Nutrition Environment and Services; Employee Wellness; Social and Emotional School Climate; Physical Environment; Health Services; Counseling, Psychological, and Social Services; Community Involvement; Family Engagement; Physical Education and Physical Activity) that make up a whole school, whole community, and whole child.
http://www.wholechildeducation.org/assets/content/WholeChild-MakingTheCase.pdf
This PDF entitled “Making the Case for Educating the Whole Child” does a great job of compiling real world educational examples that can encourage and act as a model for successful educational practices, but also combines those examples with statistical data. This PDF also gives policy recommendations and goals that may be useful in developing your own.
Other sources for whole child education are:
http://www.wholechildeducation.org/ - This is the main website for this PDF document on the whole child education
http://www.pbs.org/wholechild/providers/f-s.html - This website offers many articles that may be beneficial if your church is an early care provider, and for parents within your congregations.
http://www.in.gov/dwd/adulted_hse_testing.htm
This website looks at HSE/ECA testing areas (these tests are for students who are looking to get their high school diploma). This website may be beneficial if you have people within your congregation and or community that need their high school diploma.
http://www.in.gov/dwd/adulted_workin.htm
This website looks at an Indiana Adult Education programs that provides math, reading, and writing instruction free of charge to help people acquire the skills needed to earn a high school equivalency, go to college, or enter an entry-level occupational certification program.
http://www.in.gov/dwd/2732.htm
This cite helps people who have recently been released from prizon to find a job and get back on their feet. Withou a job it is difficult for these individuals to establish a new life and become productive citizens. Yet, the Hoosier Initiative for Re-Entry can help get an inmate the right training needed for re-entry:
Returning to Education/ Workforce
Church Partnerships
This website is from the United Church of Christ Website and it does a great job of exploring potential ways your church can minister, and or be a community partner to your local school system.
http://www.iyi.org/indiana-mentoring-partnership/become-a-community-partner.aspx
The Indiana Mentoring Partnership works closely with a variety of faith partners who mentor young people either in site or school-based programs and can speak to your faith organization
about starting a mentoring program or providing services to an existing program.
http://www.bbbs.org/site/c.9iILI3NGKhK6F/b.5962335/k.BE16/Home.htm
Whether you’re interested in donating, volunteering or enrolling your child, Big Brothers Big Sisters offers several types of programs in communities across the country.
http://www.kidshopeusa.org/what_we_do/
Kids Hope USA is the home for an expanding network of church/school partnerships. These partnerships take on the enormous challenge of kids at risk through one-on-one mentoring relationships.
High School Education
http://www.greatschools.org/indiana/
This website is great if you are looking for information about your local school. Whether you are looking for demographics like free and reduced lunch percentages, or what after school programs the school has to offer, this website has it.
For Indiana education news, information about college scholarships and college rediness, or information for parents on AP programs, kindergarten, or homeschooling, this website is Indiana's main source for k-12 education.
https://www.indianacareerconnect.com/gsipub/index.asp?docid=15
For information on school breakfast programs, and how your local school may qualify, visit this website.