Above, empowering Family Center second-graders discuss goals and responsibilities. Below, Courtney
Saunders listens as Empowering Family Center students complete their summer end presentations.
YWCA program highlights
children's progress, capabilities
Special to THE CHRONICLE
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Children earlier in the year sad
dled with labels from "behavior
deficient" to "criminally at-risk"
(and beyond stood proudly before a
packed room at the YWCA
Empowering Family Center. The
occasion - the end of a summer
program that, for the great majori
ty, will spell a life-saving change of
direction. During the program,
children ages 5 to 16 gave presen
tations on lessons learned during
the summer programming at the
Empowering Family Center. "
Students arrive at the center as
a result of school system referrals
and suspensions, court mandate
and parental choice, They are
black and they are white; they are
male and female. Some have been
involved in the juvenile court sys
tem. Others are younger siblings of
adjudicated older brothers and sis
ters. Recently at the center they all
stood and group by group gave
powerful interpretatipns of what
they have learned about respect for
authority, self-esteem, citizenship ,
and personal responsibility.
Ask second-graders at the cen
ter about their summer at the
Empowering Family Center.and
after proficiently rattling off the
days of the week and months of
the year in Spanish, they will
engage you in a discussion about
the requirements of goal achieve
ment. They will tell you they have
a "responsibility" to listen and to
be respectful of others and that an
education is the foremost require
ment for them to achieve any of "
their goals. This is no small accom
plishment for children who during
the school year faced suspensions
and expulsions and who lacked the
simplest of social and life skills.
The progress made by the stu
dents reflects the center's focus on
parental involvement in children's
lives. Indeed the primary require-'
ment for enrollment in the pro
gram is that parents spend at least
one hour each week volunteering
at the center. Parents also are
required to participate in program
ming with their children.
"We require this from parents
because we. are convinced that ,
whatever social skills and life skills
the students learn here during the
day must be reinforced in their
home environments," said Court
ney Saunders, director of the
Empowering Family Center.
"These students and their parents
face mai\y different barriers to suc
cess in the classroom and success
ful parenting at home. We're here
to help them learn to work
through some of those obstacles."
The YWCA's Empowering
Family Center houses the Practice ?
to Save Life program for adjudi
cated young people making the
transition from training schools
and detention homes. Last year,
Forsyth Futures selected the
YWCA to pilot Family Ties, a pro
gram that attempts to prevent
younger siblings from following in
the footsteps of their court
involved older brothers and sisters.
Family Ties addresses the over
all circumstances and environ
ments that lead older youths to
court involvement and then works
to eliminate the same stimuli for
younger siblings. The Empowering
Family Center also is home to the
Marching lOOs and the Marching
Angels, award-winning youth drill
teams.
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50th wedding
anniversary
Carlton1 Eugene and Willie ,
Lee Scales of Winston-Salem *
celebrated their 50th wedding
anniversary on Aug. 1 with a
family banquet at the home of
their daughter and son-in-law,
Patrice and Ross King.
Mr, and Mrs. Scales have
four children: Carlton E. Scales
Jr., Cassandra D. Scales, Darryl ,
K! Scales and Albert L. (Feli
cia) Scales, all of Winston
Salem.
The couple have eight grand
children: Chantelle L. (Wesley)
Johnson, Louis A. Dillard, ~
Carlton D. Morgan, LaShonda
Scales, Albert Scales, Kevin D.
Scales, Brielle M. Scales. Chris
tian N. Scales, and three great
grandchildren, Keanna C. John
son, Wesley S. Johnson and ?
Julian Scales.
Mr. Scales is retired from
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., and
Mrs. Scales is a homemaker.
Both are members of Morn
ing Star Baptist Church in Win
ston-Salem.
They were married July 30,
1949.
"Be completely humble and
gentle: be patient, bearing with
one another in love. Make every
effort to keep the unity of the
Spirit through the bond of
peace." Ephesians 4:2-3
Carlton tugono and Willio Loo Stolot
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