GET PLUGGED IN Student Involvement We help our students get involved in the community by providing ways to volunteer their time for others Middle school students create signs for the elementary schools High school students can work with GET PLUGGED IN We provide community service hours ID: 495220
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Community Now
GET PLUGGED IN!Slide2
Student Involvement
We help our students get involved in the community by providing ways to volunteer their time for others.
Middle school students create signs for the elementary schools. High school students can work with GET PLUGGED IN! We provide community service hours for our youth.Slide3
Getting Plugged in with MVSRTS
Volunteers are background checked and trained to provide a safe walking/biking environment. The City of Moreno Valley provides crossing guard training.
Volunteers are assigned positions as bus leaders, safe route volunteers, parking lot patrols, site leaders and event coordinators.Monthly each school site celebrates walking/biking in an educational assembly geared to have fun and educate our children on pedestrian/biking and personal safety.
Services Monthly Student Education
Walking school bus Safety awareness
Parent paths Physical fitness
Volunteer crossing guards Mental fitness
Drop-off sites Nutrition
Parking lot patrol
Bicycle trainSlide4
Community Empowerment and Benefits
Classes:
ExcelWord
Volunteer opportunitiesCareer Preparation and Experience
Calculate Hours and Timesheets
Positive References
Volunteering shows a Willingness to Work and that you are a Self Starter
Empowerment Series:
Self Empowerment
Goal Setting
Resume Writing
Transforming your mind
Resources:
Information on Diet and Exercise
Information on Resources Available
Information on Dealing with Mental Health Issues
Personal Empowerment
Community Now understands the need for economic growth in our cities. We address
the personal and community barriers that prevent individuals from obtaining and holding jobs. GET PLUGGED IN will also encourage our community participants by introducing a self-empowerment series designed to inspire individuals to attain personal growth. Slide5
Our impact
Our students learn the rules of the road and personal safety skills which they use daily as they navigate our neighborhoods.
Community Now volunteers are excited about life and learn career skills, safety training, empowerment seminars and a sense of belonging to an organization that cares about them and their families. We promote and will hire many of our paid positions from our volunteer force. Enhancing the economic lives of those who care about our community and strive for a better life.
Our MVSRTS participating schools had
no (
zero
) school site incidents or
pedestrian accidents since we started in 2011.
Community Now/MVSRTS has partnered with the Public Works department to provide new stop signs, add stop lights, sidewalks, crosswalks, and more at our local schools.Slide6
How We Have Expanded
The Safe Routes to School Program was established in Moreno Valley on June 3, 2011.
2011-2012 MVSRTS
completed the year with 4 Schools participating, 4 walking school buses, 12 volunteers and 41 students. 2012-2013 MVSRTS 11 schools participating, 6 walking school buses, over 150 volunteers and over 1,000 students.
2013-2014
Opened a Not-For Profit Organization called
Community Now.
partnered
with
organizations working in our community who share our passion for healthy living, safe environments and personal growth. This new expansion of our program is called “GET PLUGGED IN”.
Our
Long-term goal is to install our
program
across the nation; reaching out to a larger number of people who would otherwise find it difficult to find services such as ours.Slide7
Get Plugged In
Community Now has enhanced its program to include
FREE Tutoring and Mentoring
Tutoring Common Core Curriculum
The
Mission of this program is to empower student achievement one student at a time to ensure
that no
child would ever be left behind.
The tutorial
program is targeted at youth, kindergarten - 12th
grade. Tutoring will be held after school.
Mentoring
Sigma Beta Xi Inc.
Provides male students with the support and guidance necessary to achieve academic success, business etiquette, leadership skills, and service to their community. To
ensure that young men do not continue a cycle of poverty and hunger, the district and organization partnership created Academies for Young Men on middle school and high school campuses to provide male students with four (4) core pillars of mentoring, school readiness, community service, and leadership development
We are seeking a mentoring program for females and hope to find a partner soon.Slide8
Program Funding Opportunities
Community Now partnered with the City of
Moreno Valley and were awarded a grant that provides funds for safety education, temporary employment for some of our community members and will provide sidewalks at two local
schools:
Badger
Springs and Chaparral Hills
.
There are many funding opportunities through partnerships and
collaborative grants from
private and governmental agencies
.
We welcome community partners and look forward to working together as we provide needed social services to our communities, families and friends. Slide9
Community Partners
Sigma Beta Xi Inc.MV Unified School District
City of Moreno ValleyRiverside Medical Clinic M.V. Public WorksWells Fargo
Think TogetherM.V. PTA CouncilMolina HealthcareRTABob’s Big BoyChina One
UCR
Safe House/Safe Zones
Riverside
County Regional Medical
Center
Bryan’s Dog Grooming
RCDC
Alessandro
Clinica Medica Familiar
Higher Ground Program
All-In-One Financial
Services
Congressman Takano
Assemblyman MedinaVisterra Credit UnionIntegrated Care CommunitiesCounty of Riverside Public HealthCalTransThe Optimists ClubOffice DepotRepicci’s Italian IceVal Verde School DistrictExcel Charter SchoolTaffeco Real EstateOlive Garden
National Safe Routes to School Passion Cakes and More!StarbucksCapturing HeartsAlesandro Dental ClinicSlide10
Community Now Staff
Shor Denny – Chief Executive OfficerChekota Russell – Chief Operating OfficerErika Elkins – Office Administrator
Elizabeth Chavez - Chief of Staff Please like us @
Moreno Valley Safe Routes to School Program on Face book to get more information. Or call (951) 333-9965 or email communitynow@outlook.com