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Healthy Start Grant To Benefit El Rio Students

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Contributed by: Nancy Mayerson on 5/31/2007

Rio School District recently received a $50,000 Healthy Start Support Services grant from the California Department of Education - Healthy Start Support Services Program. The two-year grant will enable the Rio Real Healthy Start Program Collaborative and its community partners to engage in a comprehensive planning process that identifies needed services within the community. The collaborative will then develop an operational program that is culturally and linguistically appropriate, and easily accessible.

Services to kindergarten through sixth-grade students will be provided at the Rio Real Healthy Start Program Center, which will be housed at Rio Real Elementary School. It will be a student, family and community resource center for the Nyeland Acres area of El Rio. This is an educationally and economically disadvantaged community with a large population of Mixteco families. (Mixteco is separate from Spanish and does not use written language.) A majority of Mixteco children are not currently enrolled in school, according to Collaborative findings, so one of the program's goals will be to reach out to these children.

"The Healthy Start Program will give us additional resources to provide our school-age children with a solid foundation for educational success and academic achievement by providing programs that strengthen our students, families and community," said Wanda Kelly, administrator of special projects and in charge of the district's Office of Student and Family Services.

The first phase of the program begins this month, with the Rio School District and the Rio Real Elementary School participating in a wide range of school-based and community-based child and family initiatives. Rio Real Healthy Start Program Collaborative will then begin identifying the unmet needs of the students and bringing together the appropriate agencies to ensure that a comprehensive, non-duplicative services are available.

The Rio School District serves the unincorporated community of El Rio, the RiverPark development and portions of the city of Oxnard. The District strives to provide world-class education to all of its 4,100 students through six elementary schools and two middle schools (school year 2007-2008 projections).

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