For Kids’ Sake
A program for parents, step-parents, and grandparents who share custody or visitation of a child, whether or not there was ever a marriage. The class is taught by licensed therapists and is appropriate for adults who are currently going through the courts as well as those who have been separated for years.
Class is always held at the Mary Switzer building on the campus of WWRC, from 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. The cost is $45 (book and snack provided). Reduced fee and scholarships are available.
Guiding Good Choices
This class meets once a week for 5 weeks and focuses on helping parents lower the likelihood that their 8-16 year olds will participate in risky behaviors, especially drug use.
Topics include risk and protective factors, family bonding, managing anger and conflict, and refusal skills that go well beyond “just say no.” Classes are held at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Waynesboro on Tuesday evenings, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. Book, child care and meal will be provided for the cost of $25 per person.
Love and Logic
This is a 7 week class appropriate for parents and caregivers of preschoolers, teenagers, and all ages in between. Parents learn to replace anger with empathy and allow natural and logical consequences to do the teaching.
We cover a wide variety of topics, including tantrums at Wal-Mart, truancy, bedtime battles and shoplifting. The next class will be held in Staunton during the day and is currently in the process of being scheduled. Child care and snacks will be provided.
Parent Support Group
This group is open to any person who has participated in either Love and Logic or Guiding Good Choices. It will meet 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. on the last Wednesday of each month at the Nelson Street Teen Center in Staunton. Child care will be provided.
To get more information on all programs, or to register,
contact Judith Schrauder at 540-942-6757
OR
SchrauderJL@ci.waynesboro.va.us
For Kids’ Sake
A program for parents, step-parents, and grandparents who share custody or visitation of a child, whether or not there was ever a marriage. The class is taught by licensed therapists and is appropriate for adults who are currently going through the courts as well as those who have been separated for years.
Class is always held at the Mary Switzer building on the campus of WWRC, from 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. The cost is $45 (book and snack provided). Reduced fee and scholarships are available.
Guiding Good Choices
This class meets once a week for 5 weeks and focuses on helping parents lower the likelihood that their 8-16 year olds will participate in risky behaviors, especially drug use.
Topics include risk and protective factors, family bonding, managing anger and conflict, and refusal skills that go well beyond “just say no.” Classes are held at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Waynesboro on Tuesday evenings, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. Book, child care and meal will be provided for the cost of $25 per person.
Love and Logic
This is a 7 week class appropriate for parents and caregivers of preschoolers, teenagers, and all ages in between. Parents learn to replace anger with empathy and allow natural and logical consequences to do the teaching.
We cover a wide variety of topics, including tantrums at Wal-Mart, truancy, bedtime battles and shoplifting. The next class will be held in Staunton during the day and is currently in the process of being scheduled. Child care and snacks will be provided.
Parent Support Group
This group is open to any person who has participated in either Love and Logic or Guiding Good Choices. It will meet 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. on the last Wednesday of each month at the Nelson Street Teen Center in Staunton. Child care will be provided.
To get more information on all programs, or to register,
contact Judith Schrauder at 540-942-6757
OR
SchrauderJL@ci.waynesboro.va.us
Alarming Statistics!
Local police estimate that there are more than 150 gang members and almost another 100 associate gang members in our area, including members of Bloods, Crips, MS-13, and several “homegrown” gangs known in our jurisdictions.
The majority of these are young, with most members between the ages of 15 and 21.
There are increasing incidents of younger children becoming involved in gang activity including recently observed activity among late elementary and early middle school aged children.
Children's Perspectives on Gangs Through Poetry
Should Have Never Been
By Ariel Salisbury
I know this girl named Brittany
We’ve been friends
from way back when
What happen to her
should have never been
One day
she was walking down the street
Saw a crowd of people standing in a circle
With a boy getting beat
She was too far away to see the boys face
Scared of what would happen next
She runs the other way
Not telling anyone
She runs to her room
Dials my phone immediately
”You never believe what I seen.
I saw a boy get beat up, by a gang
Down the street”
I said “How you know it was a gang”
She said “Because they were wearing the same shirts,
And rocking the same tattoos”
Last thing she heard was
“Now what you going to do?”
I said I gotta go, I will see you at school.
But the next day, Brittany with her perfect attendance
Was not even at school.
I knew something was wrong,
I called as soon as I got home
She answered the phone sad
I asked her what was going on
She said my brother, my brother
He’s dead
They found him on the next street
With a bullet in his head.
Click
Conversation over
Found out a few days later
The boy she saw was her brother
Now I am thinking in my bed
How things go wrong
When gangs evolve
Brittany only ten
Has lost her closest kin
And if you listen
You will hear her crying in the wind
Remember, Brittany
is only ten.
And in ten seconds
This story may no longer be a story at all
Brittany situation could make WHSV TV-3
If gangs keep going on
The way they do
What are you willing to do
To help prevent this nightmare
From coming true
We need you
What I See
By Alayah Johnson
You see kids my age smoking, fighting, and doing drugs.
Running around thinking they are thugs
But many of them are not much older than me
Looking for attention
And for some a family
Fighting to stay strong
And praying to live long
But when things go wrong
Life’s done
But many of them are not much older than me
What if somebody had taught them to be who they wanted to be
R U who U want 2 B
Can we all be who we want to be
Music
By MaKayla Veneable
You see in today’s music
They make the Snoop Dogg’s and 50’s sound cool
They throwing up gang signs
Kids throwing up gang signs too
Not knowing what they mean
Getting shot on the scene
People hear someone got shot
Praying please don’t let it be Charlie, Nicole,
Chris or Nick
Their babies
Your babies
But what if you could change their fate
Take a few minutes to hear what they think
Maybe nobody would have to pray please God not my babies at all
Holding them tight when they come home
Saying thank you so much God thank you
Sleeping in the night hoping no wondering bullet comes
Hitting innocent people and their babies.
Hoping the next day their safe your safe
Waking up each morning hearing gun shoots
Running to their room seeing them snug in bed
Kissing them on the cheek saying it just a horrible dream
You see when you wake up
We’ll live in harmony
You, me, all humanity
Living as one.