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Family Connection helps make a difference in
Ellaville by helping MADE program
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By LINDA ADAMS
(From the July 5, 2006 issue)
   Another organization to receive a grant from Ellaville-Schley County Family Connection is M.A.D.E. (Making a Difference in Ellaville). This group has been holding a summer tutoring program for five years running.
   This year’s session was held in conjunction with Schley County School

 
   
System’s CRCT preparation program. It is now completed with 96 children ranging from ages 6 to 16 attending. Taught during the three-week program are reading and math skills.  Breakfasts and lunches were served to the kids by the Christian Outreach Ministries. 
   “Over the years that we have held the tutoring classes, parents have become more interested because of the CRCT testing required by the state,” Elaine Black of MADE said. “The ‘Criterion Reference Competency Tests’ are given to all grades with a ‘must pass’ requirement for the 3rd, 5th, and 8th graders in order for those students to advance through the school system. If the parents know that there is a weak area, they want their kids to strengthen their skills. They want to give the kids extra practice to supplement and enrich skills.”
    Money from the grant will be used for materials and salaries. The teachers working in the tutoring program this year were Elaine Black, Joan Perkins, Helen Smith, Michelle Young, Vivian Griffin, Patricia Bridges (M.A.D.E.), Belverlyn Hill, Deborah Pena, Deborah Yelverton, Sharon Braxton, Mandi Walls, Johnnie Jarvis and Lu Chase (Schley County School System). Paraprofessionals were Cora Black, Tabitha Pine, Lasaun Hurt (M.A.D.E.) and Patricia Jones (Christian Outreach Ministries, food services).