Big Hearts Fund
The Big Hearts Fund pays for supplies and activities for students that may aid school involvement. Examples of requests funded: alarm clocks, backpacks, PE clothes, shoes, Soccer League fees. Eureka City Schools employees donate approximately $300 each year. Any K-12 student in Eureka City Schools is eligible.
Contact Jackie Parks at 476-1601 |
CHOICE
CHOICE supports K-12th grade Eureka City School suspended students in their choice to help others in our community and environment through service. CHOICE serves Eureka City Schools' K-12th grade students. CHOICE is the Eureka City Schools' Community Service Grant Program, funded by Evergreen Pulp Mill as a service to our community.
Contact Eureka High School Special Projects at 441-0271 |
Community Learning Centers
After-school programs at Alice Birney, Grant, Jefferson, Lafayette, Lincoln, Washington, Winship and Zane. Activities and services can be extended to all segments of the community including opening schools to community use. Funding is provided by a 5-year grant from California Dept. of Education.
Contact Valerie Gardner at 441-3375
CLC Web page
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COMPASS
COMPASS, in partnership with the North Coast Mentor Program, matches students ages 4 to 18 who have one or more parents incarcerated, with an adult mentor. Parents must be incarcerated in a state or federal facility. Mentors and mentees commit to meet for six hours per month for one calendar year. They may choose to participate in various activities including reading, working on homework, going to the movies, walking in the forest, visiting museums, or attending local events and festivals.
For more information contact Deena Faull at 441-0271 Special Projects, Eureka High School. |
Conflict Management
Programs are site-based and vary in content and approach. Goal is to teach students basic skills for resolving interpersonal conflict. Some sites train students to mediate conflict between other students. Funded by Safe and Drug Free Schools, site funding and grants.
Contact your school's principal or counselor. |
Drug Education Support Groups
Contracted counselor provides various kinds of tobacco and drug education groups for students with personal or family drug use. Groups meet at Eureka High School and Zoe Barnum High School. Funded by Safe and Drug Free Schools, State Department of Education.
Contact Nancy Hunter at 599-6316, Humboldt County Health Department. |
GATE
The goals of the Gifted and Talented Education programs, as developed and approved by the District GATE Parent Advisory Committee, are to help students:
- Develop learning skills and challenge his/her abilities.
- Derive the additional benefits provided by differentiated educational opportunities.
- Interact with other gifted students.
- Express unusual and/or creative ideas, react to others’ ideas, and work in an environment in which it is safe to be a risk taker.
- Develop critical and logical thinking.
GATE is a State-funded program that serves elementary and secondary students and their families.
Contact Mimi Battle - (707) 441-3338
GATE Web page
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GRIP
Gang Risk Reducation Intervention Program is designed to reduce and/or eliminate gang activity and violence in the schools it serves. GRIP serves any K-12 Eureka City Schools student whose behavior may lead to gang involvement, violence, hate groups or criminal activity. GRIP is funded by the CA. Department of Education.
Contact Simona Keat at 445-7086 or 499-5922. |
Healthy Start
Healthy Start is a California initiative that provides comprehensive supports and services to familiies in the school community. A Family Resource Center is located at Eureka High School's Marshall Annex. Healthy Start serves elementary and secondary students and their families. Healthy Start is funded by MediCal, State grant and other district categorical funding.
Contact Kristine Fabian ext. 404 (441-2404) or Martha Scott , Healthy Start secretary ext. 279 (441-0279). Family Services Advocates on site. |
Homeless Education Project
The Homeless Education Project connects homeless children and their families to the services they may need in the community and schools that help pave the way to school enrollment, attendance, and success. This is done through Educational Liaisons (ECS employees), placed in the community, who help remove the barriers to school success encountered by homeless by connecting them to social services, special services in the schools, transportation to and from school, tutoring, backpacks, school supplies, and literacy activities.
The Homeless Education Project is funded by a Stewart B. McKinney federal grant and serves any homeless child in the Eureka area (age 2 1/2 to 21 years old) eligible to attend a Eureka City School and their families.
Contact Maureen Chase, program director, ext. 516 or phone 441-2516.
Homeless Education Project Web page |
IMPACT
IMPACT is a process for identifying students who exhibit sudden changes in behavior, i.e., dropping grades, poor attendance, changing behavior. Students are referred to a team made up of teachers who assess problems and refer to appropriate academic or other services.
IMPACT serves Eureka High School and Humboldt Bay High School students.
Contact Kristine Fabian ext. 404 (441-2404) |
Parent Project
A parenting class for parents of middle and high school students that are challenging. The class is 10 weeks and is offered at Winship and Zane Middle Schools.
The Parent Project is funded by Safe and Drug Free Schools, Title 1 and serves Eureka City Schools parents and also parents of Title 1 private school students.
Contact Eureka Adult School 441-2448 or Pat Graves 441-2423 |
Positive Parenting
A six-week class for parents of elementary students, which teaches basic parenting skills. The class is sponsored by Eureka Adult Education and facilitated by the Humboldt Child Care Council. The program is funded by Adult Education and Safe and Drug Free Schools and serves any area parent.
Contact: Eureka Adult School 441-2448
Humboldt Child Care Council (facilitator) 444-8293
Jackie Parks, district coordinator 476-1601 |
Project Serve
Comprehensive service-learning program, which connects students to service opportunities both through community activities and classroom curriculum. Eureka High's Project Serve was awarded Kellogg's Learning In Deed and is a nationally recognized Service-Learning Leader School.
Project Serve is funded by the Kellogg Foundation and serves Eureka City Schools K-12 students.
Contact Brooke Warren 441-0271
Special Projects, Eureka High School. |
Safe and Drug Free Schools
Program provides education materials, supplies for prevention activities, supports conflict management programs, provides drug education and support groups. The program is funded by the State Department of Education and serves all district schools.
Contact Valerie Gardner 441-3375 or Jackie Parks 476-1601. |
Student Services Staff Training
Crisis Prevention Intervention (CPI), a day-long workshop that teaches verbal and physical methods for reducing a crisis situation and protecting both staff and students.
Contact Pat Graves ext. 423 (441-2423). |
Talent Search
Humboldt State's Educational Talent Search Program is a federally-funded program for 6th -12th grade students who are first generation college-bound students
and whose families meet federal income guidelines.
Talent Search Web site |
TAPESTRY
The goal of this project is to reduce teen pregnancy through various educational strategies on many issues including conflict management, growth and development, decision making, parent-child communication and career development. The program is funded by the State Department of Health and serves students at Eureka High School and Humboldt Bay High School.
Contact Jesica Bishop 441-0271
Special Projects, Eureka High School. |
Tobacco Use Prevention Education
TUPE provides tobacco education materials and intervention services. Supports special events such as Red Ribbon Week, guest speakers and other activities. TUPE is funded by a State Department of Education grant and serves 4th - 8th-grade students at all sites.
Contact Valerie Gardner 441-3375 or Jackie Parks 476-1601 |
Tobacco Use Prevention Education-EHS
Program provides tobacco education for all students, wide variety of activities to promote tobacco prevention, intervention for smokers, chewers, and other students who are high risk. Program serves students at Eureka High School and Humboldt Bay High School.
Contact Claudia Tirado at 441-2530. |
Top of the State Service-Learning Network
Project Serve provides leadership to surrounding counties in the area of service-learning. The goal is to use Project Serve's experience to establish service-learning in other schools. The program is funded by CalServe, State Department of Education and serves Humboldt, Del Norte, and Mendocino Counties.
Contact Brooke Warren 441-0271
Special Projects, Eureka High School. |
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