After School and Putney Family Services

After School Care

OASIS After School Programs at Putney Central School are a collaboration through the Vermont Department of Education 21st Century Community Learning Centers Program. OASIS provides a safe, fun place AND people to go to, in serving the children of Putney. For more information, please call 802-579-5748.

Since 1999, this collaboration has served hundreds of students in Putney. In the past, OASIS served 102 out of the school 200 students in these programs:

• Grades K–5: KidzLit, KidzMath
• Middle School Enrichment: Arts Outdoor Activities for grades 5–8

Mentor-Apprenticeship program

The school has a successful Apprenticeship Program, which is jointly coordinated by Putney Family Services and Putney Central School, offering students in grades 6–8 opportunities to work outside of the school with organizations, community-based businesses, and local trade and crafts people.

History

In 1989, the Putney Central School counselor and principal gathered a group of concerned Putney citizens. They looked at some concerns that were showing up on the school’s doorstep, and were getting in the way of students educational experience-even though these concerns weren’t directly educational in nature.

Kids were coming to school hungry, without proper clothing, or stressed from family conflict. Some parents were like-wise feeling the effects ofstruggling with basics like food, shelter and clothing and other family issues like employment, money, housing, lack of preparedness as a parent ,child care when the kids weren’t in school.

After that first meeting, the group continued to meet and plan how they might try and support the school, the families and students by addressing some of these needs. Out of that group, Putney Family Services was born.

Since 1989, we continue to serve our community with programs at the school and in the community. At PCS, PFS offers after school child care, enrichment programs, mentor apprenticeships and summer enrichment.

For the whole community, we also offer, the Thursday Night Free health Clinic and Crisis Support and Referral. We are also the contact agency for the Town of Putney’s White Whitney Emergency Fund. If you, or someone you know might need a little bit of financial help to pay for heat, electricity of another small bill to get you through a rough patch, call PFS for an application. 802-387-2120