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Center of Hope ELEVATEs Students Through Music, Math and
Reading
Sojourner’s Truth Staff
A week of music, reading
and math ended on Friday, June 15 when 40 kids heard the
fruits of their labor – in this case a recording of a song
they themselves had sung during their five days of fun and
learning.
The Center of Hope Family
Service’s Summer Music Camp was held at Scott High School
and funded by the 21st Century Community Learning
Centers Grants which enabled kindergarten through
fifth-grade students from the Old West End Academy and the
Martin Luther King, Jr. Academy for Boys to attend.
The Center of Hope Family
Services offers programs year round designed to improve life
outcomes for young people throughout the area such as: a 21st
Century Learning Center for students at risk for academic
failure; a health and wellness promotion and a juvenile
re-entry and delinquency prevention program.
The centerpiece of the
week’s activities was the student’s rendition of the song
ELEVATE, which was written by the Family Service’s Executive
Director Tracee Perryman, PhD, and recorded by producer,
videographer Marcus Devine in Scott’s recording studio.
ELEVATE, said Devine, is
an inspirational composition that encourages kids to “never
give up.” The kids, some of whom were reluctant to allow
others to hear their voices when they first learned of the
project, “had a sense of accomplishment when they heard
their voices,” he added. “Greatness is always on the other
side of fear.”
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