Battle Ground — Battle Ground Public Schools received a $25,000 grant from the state Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction for the development of a volunteer program to help teach resilience skills to students faced with housing instability.
The coaching program will be a joint effort between the district’s Family and Community Resource Center and Connect Battle Ground, a local nonprofit that will help identify and train resilience coaches to work with the unaccompanied youth.
“Resilience coaches will be powerful advocates for instilling hope and confidence in youth as well as assisting students with reaching specific goals they have for their lives,” Lydia Sanders, the district’s family resource services coordinator, said in a release. “This will go a long way toward helping them become happy, healthy, independent adults.”
The program is seeking volunteer resilience coaches to meet with an unaccompanied student about once per week. Volunteers will receive training before being assigned to and meeting with a student, and ongoing training will also be provided. Anyone interested in becoming a resilience coach is asked to contact ConnectBG at connect@connectbg.org or 360-399-6445, or call the district’s Family and Community Resource Center can be reached at 360-885-5434.
