UCI/HABLA and Huntington Valley Boys & Girls Clubs Honored with O.C. Community Service Awards.IRVINE, Calif. -- Citing their unique contributions to Orange County's children, the Children and Families Commission of Orange County presented its 4th Annual Peter A. Hartman Award for Excellence today to the University of California The University of California has a combined student body of more than 191,000 students, over 1,340,000 living alumni, and a combined systemwide and campus endowment of just over $7.3 billion (8th largest in the United States). , Irvine's HABLA program and the Boys & Girls Clubs of Huntington Valley for its School Readiness and Support Program. "We are pleased to recognize these two outstanding programs for their contributions in education and community service on behalf of Orange County's children," said Julie Poulson, chair of the Children and Families Commission. "HABLA and the Boys & Girls Clubs of Huntington Valley embody and represent the qualities the Commission has come to look for in programs that emphasize outcomes, innovation and are results oriented." The Peter A. Hartman Award is presented annually by the Children and Families Commission of Orange County in honor of former Commissioner Peter A. Hartman, Ph.D., a champion of children's issues and former Superintendent of the Saddleback Valley Unified School District Saddleback Valley Unified School District (SVUSD) is a public school district in South Orange County, California. It includes 26 elementary schools, four intermediate schools and four high schools. , who died in 2001. The Hartman Award for Excellence in Education was presented to UCI's HABLA (Home-based Activities Building Language Acquisition) program. HABLA is an intensive home visitation VISITATION. The act of examining into the affairs of a corporation. 2. The power of visitation is applicable only to ecclesiastical and eleemosynary corporations. 1 Bl. Com. 480; 2 Kid on Corp. 174. program operating collaboratively with the Corbin Family Resource Center and the Santa Ana Unified School District Santa Ana Unified School District (SAUSD) is a school district in Orange County, California that serves the city of Santa Ana. Although its geographic size is only 24 square miles, it is the third largest school district in the state of California with 61,693 students. . The program reaches out to Hispanic families and helps empower parents to become their children's first teachers. Using culturally appropriate mentors who serve as coaches and role models for parents, the program teaches literacy and language development methods through books and toys used in the home. The Hartman Award for Excellence in Community Service was presented to the Boys & Girls Clubs of Huntington Valley for its School Readiness and Support Program. The program supports and improves the school readiness of children by providing free evening preschool, parent education classes, counseling services and referrals to low and no cost services in the community. Nominees for the community service award included the Family Support Network for its Community-based Developmental Screenings; the Newport Mesa Unified School District A unified school district is a school district which includes both primary school (kindergarten through middle school or junior high) and high school (grades 9-12). In Illinois, these districts are called unit school districts. for its Hope School Readiness Program; the Capistrano Unified School District Capistrano Unified School District (CUSD) is the second largest school district in Orange County, California and the 95th largest in the United States. The school district serves the following cities:
"All six of the nominees are worthy of consideration for this prestigious award and we are gratified grat·i·fy tr.v. grat·i·fied, grat·i·fy·ing, grat·i·fies 1. To please or satisfy: His achievement gratified his father. See Synonyms at please. 2. at how difficult it was to select from these noteworthy programs that advance the cause of getting children healthy and ready for learning," Poulson said. The awards were presented at a community reception emceed by Sandra Robbie, host of KOCE-TV's "Help Me Grow" parenting series, at the Discovery Science Center Discovery Science Center is a learning complex with more than 100 hands-on science exhibits designed to spark children's natural curiosity. Located 2500 N. Main St. in Santa Ana, California, Discovery Science Center is open 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Santa Ana Santa Ana, city, El Salvador Santa Ana (sän'tä ä`nä), city (1993 pop. 129,873), W El Salvador. It is the second largest city in the country and the commercial and processing center for a sugarcane, coffee, and cattle region. . The Children and Families Commission of Orange County was created as a result of Proposition 10, the California Children and Families Act of 1998. The proposition added a 50-cent sales tax sales tax, levy on the sale of goods or services, generally calculated as a percentage of the selling price, and sometimes called a purchase tax. It is usually collected in the form of an extra charge by the retailer, who remits the tax to the government. on tobacco products sold in California and requires that funds raised be used to support education, health and childcare programs promoting healthy early childhood development from the prenatal stage to age five. The Children and Families Commission of Orange County is responsible for overseeing the allocation of tobacco tax revenues received annually from the State Commission. For more information, please visit the Commission's website at www.occhildrenandfamilies.com. |
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