Keep your eye on the brass ring if you can…we’re off on the merry go round…Belmont Elementary CLC Site Supervisor Melissa Harris has accepted an internal position as grants manager with Belmont’s lead agency Lincoln Parks and Recreation. Ryan Mohling, .5 Everett CLC site supervisor and .5 F-Street Rec Center, is now assigned to Belmont. Ryan is also working closely with Goodrich Middle School families and neighbors and will direct a mid-level summer camp at the middle school. Rick Lingard, .5 McPhee CLC site supervisor and .5 F-Street Rec Center, will assume a full time position at the rec center, which makes Nicole Weber the new Everett/McPhee CLC site supervisor. Whew! Nicole was previously the lead teacher at McPhee and has also served as a LPS paraprofessional.
Speaking of site supervisors, Lincoln North Star’s Susie Brown was featured in the latest edition of the Clyde Malone Community Center Malone Messenger. And speaking of publications, the Junior League of Lincoln Scribbler highlighted the League’s partnership with the Boys and Girls Club at Park Middle School which includes “a cooking club focusing on healthy initiatives and childhood obesity prevention.”
And speaking of partnerships CLCs are working with Shawn Ryba of NeighborWorks® Lincoln to offer families and neighbors the opportunity to participate in the NeighborWorks Community Engagement Initiative. CEI provides tools and techniques to develop and enhance the leadership skills of anyone interested in building a stronger neighborhood community. CLC VISTAs Jacob Grell and Caitlin Phelpsare using the curriculum provided by NeighborWorks America to train all the CLC site supervisors in selected topics: “Leadership in Real Life, Community Building to Create Change, Staying Strong through Recruitment and Retention and Leading Great Meetings.” The intended outcome of grounding site supervisors in this sampling of community development work is to strengthen the family and neighborhoodgoals of their site’s annual plan and to enable them to effectively advocate for CLC families and neighbors to be trained. CEI will provide a framework for hands-on learning and a forum for discussing specific neighborhood issues. Participating neighborhoods will receive a $3,000 grant towards the implementation of an action plan, which they will begin to prepare through the CEI training.
