Mount Vernon Baptist ChurchMount Vernon Baptist Church

1007 S. Roxboro Street, Durham, NC 27707 (919) 688-1823

21st Century Community Learning Center

 

  1. Mount Vernon Baptist Church received 21st Century Community Learning Center
    (CCLC) Grant Funds in 2009 to provide students with academic enrichment
    opportunities along with activities designed to complement the students'
    regular academic program. Mount Vernon Baptist Church 21 st CCLC is titled,
    "The Road to Success". The Center created a satellite site at White Rock
    Baptist Church. 
  2. The Mount Vernon Baptist Church CCLC 
    Provides opportunities for academic enrichment, including providing
    tutorial services to help students (particularly students in high-poverty
    areas and those who attend low-performing schools) meet State and local
    student performance standards in core academic subjects such as reading and
    mathematics,
    (2) Offers students a broad array of additional services, programs and
    activities, such as youth development activities, drug and violence
    prevention programs, counseling programs, art, music, recreation programs,
    technology education programs and character education programs that are
    designed to reinforce and complement the regular academic program of
    participating students, and
    (3) Offers families of students served by 21st CCLCs opportunities for math,
    science and literacy /economic related educational development.

    About 115 students in grades K-5 participated at the Mount Vernon and
    White Rock Baptist Centers.. These students attended low-performing, high
    priority and Title I schools of C. C. Spaulding, W. G. Pearson, and Forest
    View Elementary Schools.

    Mount Vernon received a $50,000 three year grant to expand its regular
    program throughout the Summer. For Summer 2010, thirty-five students
    participated. The Center focused on two projects related to the history of
    Hayti. Historically, Hayti, located in the southeastern part of Durham,
    represented freed blacks in search of economic, racial and political
    autonomy. Nearly 200 businesses developed and thousands of blacks migrated
    from the rural South looking for work in the new Progressive South., The
    projects: What a Family Means to Me and Childhood Stories of Hayti
    emphasize the lessons to be learned from Hayti by the generation of youth
    today and tomorrow. Those lessons center on the family as the centrality of
    life in Hayti and character, values, and communalism that shaped the lives
    of Hayti youth. It is hoped that the current generation will remember and
    resonate and implement a community ethos of entrepreneurism and pride.
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