- Foundations Community Partnerships Executive Director Ron Bernstein presents a $7,500 grant to Linda Wolfson, Executive Director of Vita Education Services, for Vita’s Decisions for Teens program.
Doylestown, PA (July 15, 2010) – Vita Education Services received a $7,500 Bucks Innovation and Improvement (BIIG) Grant from Foundations Community Partnership. Vita will use the grant to support Decisions for Teens, a cognitively-based program that teaches a process for making decisions in real-life situations. This program helps at-risk adolescents learn that they do have control over their situations and can assume responsibility for their actions.
Foundations Community Partnership’s BIIG grants are offered on a competitive basis to non-profit human services organizations providing services to children and youth in Bucks County. BIIG grants of $82,500 were awarded this year to 10 eligible grant applicants who will be developing innovative ideas and improving the quality of life for children, youth, and families in Bucks County.
“We are grateful to Foundations Community Partnership for its generous contribution,” said Linda Wolfson, Executive Director of Vita. “This grant will be invaluable in helping us to move forward with our Decisions for Teens program.”
Vita Education Services provides quality educational programs that help individuals gain skills that enhance their ability to deal with real-life situations, meet personal goals and become more self-determining and self-sufficient. Vita Education Services is the lead literacy agency in Bucks County and the largest provider of educational services in the Bucks County Correctional Facilities.
Through literacy and decision making programs, Vita brings learning to life for Bucks County adults, families and at-risk youth by helping them to develop skills that create opportunities for themselves, their families, and, in turn, the community. More information about Vita’s services and programs is available at www.vitaeducation.org.
Foundations Community Partnership is a private non-profit operating foundation that supports behavioral health education and research, provides grants for non-profit organizations, awards scholarships to Bucks County high school seniors, subsidizes service learning internships for college students and underwrites community education programs. To learn more about FCP and its mission visit their website at www.fcpartnership.org or contact them at 267-247-5584.
