Stratford Community Services
Positive Youth Development Programs
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Stratford Community Services offers programs for young people to help them learn new skills, begin to take leadership roles, participate in community activities together with adults and peers and challenge themselves to achieve their full potential. These programs build developmental assets that all young people need to grow up healthy, competent and caring. The more assets young people build, the less likely they are to develop problems.
Eligibility, registration and fees vary for each program. Scholarships are available, and no one is refused participation for inability to pay.
Adventure Challenge consists of both in-school and after-school groups that provide youth with structured, physically and mentally challenging experiences. Youth build self-confidence, set personal goals and learn how to work with others.
 During the 2011-12 school year, Adventure Challenge offered after school for sixth grade students at Stratford Academy.
 Stratford's Conrad Birdie
In The Spotlight is a summer youth theater production sponsored in cooperation with Sterling House Community Center. The 2010 production, Bye Bye Birdie, was held on August 5, 6, 7, 2010 at 7:30 p.m. at the Stratford Theatre, 2422 Main Street, Stratford.
The In The Spotlight 2011 show will be "Anything Goes." Show dates are scheduled for August 4th, 5th, & 6th.
 ALPHA Youth Leaders 2010
ALPHA Leaders are students selected from the ALPHA program to promote positive youth and police relationships. ALPHA leaders are a core group of youth who have been identified by their peers and by the ALPHA program administration as exemplar students with demonstrated leadership abilities.
  
How Youth Positively Entertain
HYPE offers a broader, bolder version to prevention and wellness promotion by providing Stratford young people with opportunities to create positive social programming to encourage healthy lifestyle choices and behavior. HYPE kids are involved in a variety of community service projects, creating awareness and youth activities throughout school years and summers around specific topics that are made by YOUth, for YOUth.
The Partnerships for Success Coalition and HYPE unveiled the teen webisode series, "What's In Your Cup?" on Monday, December 20, 2010 at 7:00 p.m. in the Town Hall Council Chambers. Please click here for more information.
F.L.A.S.H. & C.L.A.S.P.
Flood Learns After School Hours & Creative Learning After School Program are Flood and Wooster Middle School's after-school programs. They provide a safe and structured setting for students to make new friends, challenge themselves, and experience success through various types of activities. Most activities include math, reading, and writing skills, sports and fitness, music and drama, artisitic opportunities, and supportive groups with positive solutions and resources. The goals for these after-school programs are to improve student academic achievement, increase leadership and social skills, promote healthy growth and fitness, enourage team building skills, and strengthen relationship between home and school.
F.L.A.S.H. & C.L.A.S.P.'s Leadership Council meet Representative Hoydick at the Hartford Capitol on an after-school field trip April 2011.
Internships are available to high school juniors and seniors interested in the fields of education, child care and human services. Interns work as Adventure Challenge group co-facilitators.
Interested students can contact their School-to-Career Coordinator to determine their eligibility for the 2011-12 school year.
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