Morristown School Age Program

 

 

 

In Morristown, the Before and After School Age Child Care Program or School Aged Child Care (SACC) serves youngster in kindergarten through fifth grade.  The program provides homework assistance, tutorial services and structured activities for children while their parents are working.  Students enrolled in the before-school program arrive at 7:00 a.m. and leave school about 8:30 a.m.  They are transported to school by buses provided by the Morris School District.  After school, students begin arriving at Neighborhood House at approximately 2:45 p.m. Children can remain until 6:00 p.m. 

 

SACC’s goal is to help improve the students’ academic performance and deter them from participating in potentially harmful activities.  In addition to homework assistance, organized activities in the gymnasium, crafts and Neighborhood House’s dance program provide children with extra curriculum activities that broaden their social development and creativity.  The program activities are designed to enhance the learning process, promote maturity and help children develop sense of self-worth.

 

 

KIDS CAFÉ

 

The Community FoodBank (CFB) of New Jersey has partnered with Morristown Neighborhood House to host a Kids Café at 12 Flagler Street.  The Food Bank provides free evening meals five days a week.  All the meals served in the Kids Café are prepared in the CFB’s own commissary kitchen by staff production chefs with the help of students in the organization’s Food Service Training Academy.  Nutrition education is also an important part of the program, especially with the growing concern over the high rate of childhood obesity in America.

 

FAMILY MEAL

 

Family Meal Program is being offered by the Community FoodBank of New Jersey in collaboration with Neighborhood House.  The objective of the Family Meal Program is to provide frozen dinners twice a week to qualified families whose children attend the participating Child Care Centers.  In addition to helping the families save time and money, this program will give the family the means to eat healthfully at their home.  Each dinner is a frozen, nutritionally balanced meal designed to feed a family of four. 

 

COLABORATIONS

 

Morristown Neighborhood House emphasizes collaboration as a method of expanding services to our SACC participants.  Through partnerships, SACC children can access the following programs at our 12 Flagler Street location:

 

Girls Scouts:  Girl Scouts operates during the after school program.  This is a partnership between MNH and the Morris Area Girl Scout Council.  The girls are taught about the self-esteem, pride, respect, and community involvement.  Girl Scouts operates during the after school program, girls ranging from Kindergarten to 5^th grade.  The Neighborhood House hosts a Daisy, Brownie and Junior’s troop.

 

Girls Explore: Girls Explore broadens the horizon of possibilities for girls through role modes in major fields of science, sports, the arts, the humanities, and business and professions.  Each role is a reflection of the woman who is a leader in her field.  As a students plays with a doll, she becomes interested in the person it represents, encouraging her to explorer further. 

 

The purpose of the program is to educate students about women’s diverse lives and accomplishments and to broaden their ideas about what they can accomplish in their own lives.  There are a series of program elements to guide the exploration through play, research, writing, designing, and questioning.  The end goal of the program is to empower each individual student by given her tools to follow her interest and to plan her future.

 

Cub Scouts:    Cub Scouts works in conjunction with SACC program schedule.  During normal operating hours, the Cub Scouts engage the children in various activities between the hours of 4:00pm and 5:30pm.  Twice a month there is a plan activity for SACC children.  During the winter months all activities are limited to the indoors and include all SACC boys.  During the warmer months various outdoor activities are planned for all participating boys in grades 1-5.

 

Gardening Club:  The Gardening Club is presented in partnership with the Morris County Park Commission through the generosity of the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation.  During the spring and summer a new activity will be offered to our SACC students in grades 4 and 5. 

 

“The Garden of the Three Americas Club” offer children the opportunity to:

Work in the Neighborhood House children’s garden

Learn about foods of the Americas

Do a research project on the internet

Create a poster for exhibit at the Neighborhood House

Visit the Frelinghuysen Arboretum in Morristown, for a garden tour and picnic/lesson.

 

Chess Club:  For more than a decade, shouts of “Checkmate” have filled the Homework Center on Fridays, as dozens of youngsters in grades two to five learn chess from a self-taught master, Willie F. Jones of Morristown.  Jones is known throughout the House as “Mr. Willie”.  A chess player for more than five decades, he welcomes any student in the after-school program.  He has five chess sets and works with 10 youngsters at a time.  The lessons are one hour long.

  

 

For additional information please contact:

Elizabeth Hernandez

Curriculum Coordinator/Summer Camp Director

(973) 538-1229 Ext. 24

hernande@neighborhood-house.org

 

 

 

 

Member Agency of:

 

United Way of Morris County

United Neighborhood Centers of America, Inc.

Accredited by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)

Licensed by the State of New J ersey