Assistance League of Santa Barbara partners with United Way of Santa Barbara County to provide a way for kids to take swim lessons.
As in the past, children are nominated to participate based on academic and financial criteria. Assistance League of Santa Barbara has been a partner with United Way of Santa Barbara County since 1999 in FITS, supplying new summer shirts, shorts, bathing suits, hats, water bottles and school items, as well as providing the means for the children to receive swim lessons.
This year, new summer clothes will be donated by Assistance League directly to United Way, which will distribute them to the attendees. The chapter will help finance the literacy program, which will be online (40 minutes a day), as well as provide incentives for the FITS scholars, such as gift certificates for ice cream and smoothies.
“Scholars will engage with one another and their program leaders in a unique way, working as part of a virtual team and connecting with their peers daily. They will engage in hands-on STEAM activities, have access to literacy programs Lexia Core 5 and Reading Plus, participate in virtual field trips, and receive all the materials they need for virtual learning on a weekly basis,” read an Assistance League press release.
The Santa Barbara Unified School District will also help fund the program, and organizers are expecting 384 students from Carpinteria Unified School District, Santa Barbara Unified School District, Goleta Unified School District and Solvang School District to participate.
