External Affairs & Partnerships » disheen http://www.helpcps.org Making it easy to help the Chicago Public Schools Mon, 30 Aug 2010 16:55:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Learning about oral care from Elmo http://www.helpcps.org/adafoundation/ http://www.helpcps.org/adafoundation/#comments Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:21:41 +0000 disheen http://cpspartnerships.org/?p=1192 Volunteers from the American Dental Association Foundation visited 21 Chicago public schools during March and April 2009. ADA employees visited pre-kindergarten, kindergarten and first-grade classrooms and read the pop-up book Ready, Set, Brush!, which features Elmo, Cookie Monster and other Sesame Street characters and teaches proper oral care. Schools visited included Ashburn, Cook, Cuffe, Curtis, Dunne, Esmond, Ft. Dearborn, Foster Park,  Garvey, Jackson, Vanderpoel, Bennett, Evers, Fernwood, Green, Hughes, Keller, Kellogg, Kohn, Morgan, and Shedd.

The ADA Foundation donated enough copies of Ready, Set, Brush! to provide each student in the classes visited with a copy of the book to take home, as well as one copy for each elementary school in the district to add to its library. In total, 2,500 books, as well as numerous toothbrushes and boxes of floss, were distributed to CPS schools.

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]]> http://www.helpcps.org/adafoundation/feed/ 0 April Free Things Event http://www.helpcps.org/ftvideo/ http://www.helpcps.org/ftvideo/#comments Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:12:35 +0000 disheen http://cpspartnerships.org/?p=1174 On April 8th, 2009 the Chicago Public Schools year round schools were invited to the CPS warehouse for a Free Things Event. Thank you to everyone who helped make it a big success.


CPS Free Things Day – April 2009 from Partnerships Office on Vimeo.

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