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Weed
Weed Community Resource Center
590 Main Street
Weed, CA 96094
530-938-2426
wcrcdir@sbcglobal.net
Joyce Oliver - Executive Director
WCRC offers a wide-range of activities, programs and services to community members following the core services model adopted by the Family/Community Resource Center Network. WCRC serves the community as a whole with First 5 funds providing programs specifically for children between 0-5 years old and their families. WCRC works diligently to bridge current gaps in services and to work in collaboration and partnership with other programs or services.
Current First 5 funded and supported Programs, Activities & Services of Weed Community Resource Center - Funded for fiscal year 2010-2011 by First 5 Siskiyou for $39,000 - include:
Family Advocacy
Parent Education
Children Play Area
Car-Seat Safety Program
Helmet Safety Program
Lending Library
Parenting Resource Kits
Early Childhood Literacy Program
Transition to School Program
Summer Buddies
Nutrition Education & Activities
Volunteer Site
Compassionate Friends Support Group
Family & Community Fun Nights
Kindergarten Round-up
Children’s Activities at WIC
Story Time
Children’s Cooking Classes
Healthy Families Application Assistance
A variety of resources and referrals to other services and programs
Volunteerism is very important in the community of Weed. WCRC has utilized a number of volunteers in a variety of ways. Supervised elementary school children have helped to provide activities to 0-5 age children during Family & Community Fun Nights, they have helped with labeling and organizing books as well as helped with organization and sanitation of the play area. Middle School and High School students (student athletes, Key Club members and other students) have helped during cooking classes, have sorted and filled packs for the Kindergarten Round-Up, have served food during Family & Community Fun Nights, and helped to set up and clean up for many events. We have had office assistance (such as answering phones, taking messages, copying flyers, putting together packets of flyers, newsletters, etc. for distribution throughout community) provided by high school students on several occasions in order to allow our staff to complete other projects. Parents, teachers, school administrators, WCC Board Members and Weed Elementary School Board members have helped with Fun Nights, to help organize age appropriate activities for children, have cooked, cleaned, etc. for many different events. Volunteers have swept and mopped our floors, cleaned our restrooms, sanitized play area items, donated hand-made quilts, weeded our front and back areas, painted our sign, copied newsletters and flyers, helped to distribute our materials, etc. Our volunteers have been very valuable to us. We have also had community members in need of community service hours fill their required time volunteering for our program. Unfortunately, WCRC has not been as diligent in tracking our volunteer hours as we should, it would be estimated that approximately 500 or more hours of accumulative volunteer hours have been utilized during the 08-09 fiscal year.
WCRC plans to continue efforts to maintain improve and/or increase our programs, activities and services for children 0-5 years old, their families and the community by working in collaboration and coordination with other non-profit organizations, businesses and county agencies. We will remain true to our goal of “bridging the gaps” and to avoid duplication of services and supports.
During the 2009-2010 Fiscal Year, WCRC will continue to strive towards fulfilling our mission: To strengthen and unify all community members by providing civic, social, cultural, educational and recreational activities for people of all ages.
We shall diligently work towards maintaining and hopefully increasing our partnerships within the community and continue to build upon the structure and foundation of trust and reliability we have worked so hard to create.
Since WCRC first began, we have increased our capacity and ability to serve the community on a yearly basis. We plan to continue our expansion of programs, activities and services by working towards several goals for the new fiscal year. The goals listed below are in no particular order, as they are all of great value towards our continued success:
1) Increase our volunteer recruitment and retention,
2) Develop a more accurate record keeping system of volunteer and in-kind service,
3) Expand our efforts and outreach activities in ways that will increase the cultural diversity of our participants,
4) Conduct assessments that will identify communities needs,
5) Continue to expand our relationships with local preschool and child care providers,
6) Continue to increase general public’s awareness of our programs, activities and services
7) Increase our data collection tools, continue to seek streamlined ways to accumulate necessary and helpful information that exceeds PEDS data to include all programs, activities and services information,
8) Increase our organizational capacity by seeking out diversified funding that will support the expansion of staff positions,
9) Maintain the high level of partnership we have with local schools,
10) Strive to support our definition of COMMUNITY…
Coordinating Opportunities for Multi-generational and Multi-cultural members to Unite as Neighbors and Individuals; Together, Year-round.
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