Please help us start STAG at our first school
We are THRILLED to have an opportunity to bring STAG to the families at North Henry Academy, a private Christian school in Stockbridge, Georgia
Our pilot program was a success and now our goal is to raise $14,000 by the end of the year to become fully operational starting January 2019. We will begin with our Shelter Buddies and Wilson reading programs. Our goal is to have the full STAG workshops available to families by the end of 2019. You can see our blog at Team Rocky and read how we have been using STAG in a pilot program for over a year.
The yearly operational cost to run our program at North Henry Academy in Stockbridge, Ga. is $84,000; however, we are currently seeking to raise the $14,000 in order to get started. We will continue to raise the remaining funds throughout 2019; however if we are able to fully fund the program by the end of 2018, we will be able to go ahead and make our plans for workshops with families for 2019. We plan to serve the school population of approximately 165 students and their families in addition to the community. In order to get started in January, however, our goal is to raise $14,000.
Pilot Program
For the past 18 months our STAG program has been piloted privately in Stockbridge, Ga. The child we affectionately named “Rocky” and his family successfully completed our program and we are now able to mainstream him and the program into a private school setting!
You can see his progress and follow his story on Facebook: Team Rocky.
Our program is being piloted at North Henry Academy in Stockbridge, GA where we will provide health initiatives, strategic habit development, animal assisted therapy, talent development, and horticultural therapy to students. We also come alongside our students’ families to provide tools and resources which will insure long term success. By supporting Candlestick Foundation, you are partnering with us to grow students to their fullest potential, and therefore, change their lives!
THE STAG PROGRAM
The four components of the STAG program are: “Structure, Talents, Animals and Gardens”. STAG is designed to help train children in the “way that they should go” – to help give them tools to do well in life and in their relationships – to help make them whole or healed before they leave the nest.
This pilot program seeks to help transform children’s and their families’ lives as a unit. It is a “whole-child” intervention. We seek to develop new, healthy habits in the child by coaching structure in the home and developing life skills. We help children identify and develop their talents, develop skills of being kind to others through nurturing animals and, finally provide therapy through gardening and learning about excellent nutrition.
Learn more about our STAG program on the TutoringForExcellence.com website.
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