Family & Friends
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Shamika Williams
The nonprofit youth development and mentoring program for underserved girls in Rockford provides holistic mentorship and long-term relationships.
- Family & Friends
- Graduation
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Laura Gomel and Rhiannon Yandell
The six week-long after-school program is free to RPS 205 students thanks to the American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ARP ESSER) funds. Students meet three times each week.
- Family & Friends
- Fine Arts
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Aria Childers
What began as a vision to increase children’s access to arts programming in Rockford has led to more than 100 RPS 205 elementary, middle and high school students discovering the joy of tapping into their creativity and expressing themselves in new, artistic ways.
- Family & Friends
- Fine Arts
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Donnette Nailor
Grace United Methodist Church, Rockford Public Schools and a variety of community volunteers combined resources this summer to begin a Youth Community Garden.
- Family & Friends
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Bruce Erickson
Rewarding. That’s how I describe traveling our community with the dogs who are part of the 17th Judicial Circuit Court Therapy Dog program. The program includes 17 certified therapy dogs.
- Auburn High School
- Conklin Elementary School
- East High School
- Family & Friends
- Guilford High School
- Lewis Lemon Elementary School
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Jessica Story
Second grade is a crucial year in a child’s reading journey. During this time, reading allows them to learn new vocabulary, meet literacy milestones and is often when the love for reading is developed.
- Volunteer
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Mary Kaull
During his senior year at Harvard, Gerardo Castillo knew he wasn’t cut out to work in a research lab.
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Aida Martinez
High School graduation is right around the corner, and then what?
- Rock Valley College