• Working with Youth with Special Needs
  Resources for working with youth with special needs.
• Character Education
  Cultivating knowledge for purposeful living, students learn through literature, art, humanities, and throughout the existing school curriculum the benefits and consequences of behavior.

Scholarships, Awards and Grants
Scholarships, Awards and Grants available annually.

• Character Counts!
  CHARACTER COUNTS! (http://www.charactercounts.org)is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, nonsectarian character-education framework that teaches the Six Pillars of Character: trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring and citizenship. The CHARACTER COUNTS! Coalition includes thousands of schools, communities and nonprofit organizations
• CYFER-Children,Youth and Families Educational Research Network
  Is a National Network of Land Grant University Faculty and county Extension Educators working to support community-based educational programs for children, youth, parents and families.
• Nutrition & Health
• Wonderwise! Take the ultimate field trip!
  Wonderwise is an exciting new science curriculum appropriate for 4th-6th graders that introduces your students to women who have made science their careeer. Wonderwise kits provide a comprehensive instructional package that includes a video, activity book and CD-Rom for each lesson. Hard to find materials specific to the activities are also available. With these kits, teachers and youth explore the world of women scientists and discover together the fun of learning about science. Free activity books are available online! Lesson and video resources in addition to ISBE learning standards are availble through the University of Illinois Extension, Effingham County Office-347-7773.