The Children’s Home Society of new Jersey (CHSofNJ) was awarded a $12,000 grant from AT&T in support of its Trenton High School Leadership and Community Service Project.
The initiative is designed to train high school students to tutor and mentor younger students in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM). While helping younger students, the tutors simultaneously develop leadership skills and learn to recognize the importance of personal responsibility and commitment.
The Leadership and Community Service Project is part of CHSofNJ’s Kid Intervention with Kids in School (KIKS) Positive Impact program, which is a school-based youth development and primary prevention program. The KIKS model focuses on the “root causes” of self-destructive adolescent behaviors and works with young people to build confidence, communication, decision making and appropriate conflict resolution skills.
The Children’s Home Society of New Jersey is a nonprofit child and family serving agency whose mission is to save children’s lives and build healthy families. Founded in 1894, the agency protects abused or neglected infants and at-risk children by insuring stable, permanent, and loving homes for each and every child it serves. All services are confidential and most are free. For more information, visit our website at chsofnj.org.
