{"id":242524,"date":"2024-08-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=242524"},"modified":"2024-08-01T17:18:55","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T17:18:55","slug":"partnership-builds-strong-community-at-fort-cavazos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=242524","title":{"rendered":"Partnership builds strong community at Fort Cavazos"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n Kristine Caparco and Terri Jones, school liaison officers from the Child and Youth Services School Liaison Office, host a meet and greet for the Lampasas Independent School District and their Adopt-A-School units July 26, 2024, at the Lampasas ISD Administration Facility in Lampasas, Texas.
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\n The School Liaison Office challenges schools and units to a game of Kahoot, challenging attendees on their knowledge of the Adopt-A-School program July 22, 2024, during meet and greet session with the Temple Independent School District.
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FORT CAVAZOS, Texas \u2014 <\/strong>Throughout the year, Fort Cavazos Soldiers, surrounding school districts\u2019 staff and the Child and Youth Services School Liaison Office engage, connect and collaborate to foster support for military and transitioning students. Serving as a vessel for successful partnerships, positive impacts and meaningful experiences is the Fort Cavazos Adopt-A-School program.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Adopt-A-School program gives Soldiers a chance to mentor, teach and act as role models to students across Central Texas,\u201d said Kristine Caparco, a school liaison officer for CYS and the lead AAS liaison. \u201cThe program also helps build an alliance between the military, schools and neighboring communities and provides resources to educate our youth and help military families as they transition to the area.\u201d<\/p>\n

To strengthen ties between Fort Cavazos and neighboring school districts, the CYS School Liaison Office hosts meet and greets at the beginning of the school year for 83 military units and 122 schools across ten school districts.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe meet and greet sessions are a great opportunity for commanders and Soldiers to connect with their schools and gain insight on the do\u2019s and don\u2019ts of the program and how to maximize their impact,\u201d said Terri Jones, a school liaison officer for CYS.<\/p>\n

At the Belton Independent School District meet and greet, Rebecca Vaughn, principal of Joe M. Pirtle Elementary School, said the program provides a mentorship opportunity.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur students have so much respect for our Soldiers who serve as role models they can look up to,\u201d Vaughn said. \u201cIt\u2019s been refreshing for our campus to have this partnership and Soldiers who understand our students\u2019 military background and experiences.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since July 2022, 1st Lt. Kevin Dineen, 2nd Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, has played a role in his unit\u2019s involvement of the Adopt-A-School program.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe program gives our Soldiers an opportunity to harness their relationship with the community, engage with the students and apply the leadership skills they have learned from the military,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Dineen added units can help implement and sustain a successful program and partnership with effective communication, transparency and an understanding of the program\u2019s mutual benefits.<\/p>\n

\u201cNumber one: we have great higher leadership on our command team who are constantly effectively communicating, which allows for deconfliction with our schools,\u201d he explained. \u201cNumber two: our units are forward so we have a limited amount of Soldiers in home station, but that doesn\u2019t mean that we can\u2019t put in an effort at these events. And number three: not only what we can do for the school, but the school can also effectively impact our families, and give the opportunity to get out to those events and participate.\u201d<\/p>\n

During the recent meet and greet sessions also held at Temple and Lampasas ISDs, Cen-Tex Sustainable Communities Partnership staff members from Harker Heights and Fort Cavazos attended to encourage participation in the partnership\u2019s Youth Environmental Ambassadors! program, also known as YEA!.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor the past nine years, the Cen-Tex Partnership has worked together with the School Liaison Office to encourage volunteerism, promote environmental and community stewardship and empower youth to be difference makers,\u201d said Yvonne Spell, staff committee chairperson of the Cen-Tex Sustainable Communities Partnership.<\/p>\n

Opened to prekindergarten 3 through 12th grade, students compete in a variety of initiative that includes a poster contest, recycled art contest, recycle competition, school beautification challenge, litter cleanup, energy conservation and composition-notebook and pull-tab recycling.<\/p>\n

Spell concluded, \u201cTogether, through YEA! and the Adopt-A-School program, we can build impactful partnerships to inspire, motive and empower youth.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1 \/ 2 Show Caption + Hide Caption \u2013 Kristine Caparco and Terri Jones, school liaison officers from the Child and Youth Services School Liaison Office, host a meet and greet for the Lampasas Independent School District and their Adopt-A-School units July 26, 2024, at the Lampasas ISD Administration Facility in Lampasas, Texas. (Photo Credit: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242526,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=242524"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242529,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242524\/revisions\/242529"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/242526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=242524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=242524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=242524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}