February Mid Monthly
February 5th, 2024
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End of the Month Reminders
February 19 | No School
February 21 | Fifth Grade to Biztown
February 22 | Fifth Grade Blue Jackets Trip
February 29 | Parent Caregiver IN PERSON Meeting 5pm-6pm
Connecting Communities: Franklinton and Hilltop Resource Hub
🍽️ FREE Meals, Food Pantries & Produce Disributions 🍽️
Franklinton Non-Profits
Columbus Coalition for the Homeless
Provides education, advocacy, and empowerment to fight homelessness. Visit: https://columbushomeless.org
Furniture Bank of Central Ohio
Provides furniture for Central Ohio families in need with headquarters in Franklinton. Visit: https://furniturebankcoh.org
Home for Families
Dedicated to holistic, strength based services celebrating each person's resilience, hopes and dreams for their future, provided through homeless prevention and re-housing., education, and stabilization. Visit: https://homeforfamilies.org/
🏡 Housing Resources 🏡
Emergency Housing/Homeless Prevention
Community Shelter Board
Call the toll-free homeless hotline, open 24 hours a day: 614-274-7000. To access a shelter in Franklin County, you must contact the Homeless Hotline first. The phone-number for the Community Shelter Board office is 614- 221-9195.
Home for Families- Housing Now
Provides services for families with minor children who are unstable housed and/or at risk of homelessness. Housing services including intake, assessment, housing stabilization, advocacy, home visits, and linkage to community resources. Call 614- 461- 9247 (option 2)
Impact Community Action
The purpose of this service is to provide emergency finicial assistance to prevent homelessness, and/or establish permanent housing for residence of Columbus and Franklin County. This program is for customers that have past due rental/mortgage cost, or first month's rent due for a new home/apartment. For an appointment call 614- 964- 2906. For more information, visit: www.impacta.org/housing-crisis
Refugee & Immmigrant Services
Community Refugee & Immigration Services (CRIS)
An independent non-profit organization that seves the growing refugee and immigrant populations in Central Ohio. Se have over 50 staff members from all over the world who speak many different languages. Our wide array of programs and services aim to facilitate sustained self-sufficiency and successful inteegration for the people we serve. Among other things, CRIS is a refugee resettlement agency. Visit: www.crisohio.org
Ethiopian Tewahedo Social Services (ETSS)
Our Mission: To be the focal point of intergration for immigrants, refugee families, and low income individulas in Central Ohio in order to improve the quality of their live, to self-development opportunities, and to increase the awareness of their culture and hertiage in Central Ohio. Call 614- 252- 5362 Visit: www.ethiotss.org
Our Lady of Guadalupe Center
Catholic Social Services works to reduce poverty by addressing its root causes within the immigrant Hispanic community concentrated on the west side of Columbus- a population that is growing and expierences disproportionate povery. We seve the needs of Central Ohio's growing Hispanic population with food assistance, health screenings, nutrition information and English classes. Visit: www.colscc.org/our-;ady-of-guadalupe-center/
Other resources available:
Additional resources include:
- Education
- Employment & Workforce Development
- Health & Social Services
- Local Services
*For a complete copy of the Franklinton and Hilltop Resource Guide, please text Ms. Evans 614- 902- 9742 and a copy can be sent home with your student.
The Ohio Statehouse
The Ohio Statehouse celebrates Black History Month in February with free public events on Tuesday, February 6 – Tuesday, February 27, 2024.
Each program is 45 minutes and will start at noon, with a 15 minute Q&A session afterwards. All are welcome in the Atrium at noon. The performances will be livestreamed on OhioChannel.org.
Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024
THE LINCOLN THEATER
Executive Director & speaker Suzan Bradford
Learn about the history of the Lincoln Theater as a prominent venue for African American and jazz history.
Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024
THE HENRY BOX BROWN SHOW
Performance by Rory Rennick, magician and historian
This entertaining show shares the life the experience of Professor Henry “Box” Brown, an escaped slave-turned-magician.
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Booker T. Washington
''Character is power.''
Rosa Parks
''I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up.''
Columbus Metropolatian Library
Main Library
96 S. Grant Ave.
Lost Souls Recovered
Saturday, Feb. 17 | 11 a.m.
Join author Eric Walker to learn how he transformed genealogy research about his own family into the novel Lost Souls Recovered. All ages.
Martin Luther King Branch
1467 E. Long St.
The History of Black Firefighters in Columbus
Monday, Feb. 19 | 6:30 p.m.
Join us for a presentation of fire department history discussing Columbus’ African American firefighters. From the first Black firefighters on record in 1879 to current ongoing recruiting efforts, learn facts about interesting and courageous people and some of the obstacles they faced. All ages.
"The time is always right to do what is right." — Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Register for Summer Experience, Today!
Elementary and Middle School: Monday through Friday: 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. High School: Hours vary by building
The 2024 Summer Experience is FREE to all Pre-K through 12 Columbus City Schools students! Summer Experience for Pre-K through 8 students kicks off June 17. We're excited to provide CCS students and families with a summer of exciting school and community-based learning experiences.
This year’s Pre-K through 8 Summer Experience includes similar project-based learning students and families have been able to enjoy through our Pathway Express focuses, including Pathways such as Health and Fitness, Visual Arts, Urban Agriculture, World Languages and Cultures, and MORE!
Questions? Contact the Office of Extended Learning: 614-365-5010 or ExtendedLearning@columbus.k12.oh.us.
Valleyview Elementary
Telephone: 614:365:6312
School fax: 614:365:6768
Attendance Email:
attendance@columbus.k12.oh
*please email if your student will be absent from school
Teléfono: 614:365:6312
Fax de la escuela: 614:365:6768
Correo electrónico de asistencia:
attendance.valleyview@columbus.k12.oh
*envíe un correo electrónico si su estudiante estará ausente de la escuela