Parents
StreetSquash believes that parental involvement in program activities is critical to each child’s progress and success. StreetSquash staff meet with each family in their homes upon joining the team. Each parent or guardian is also required to attend at least three activities each year, including weekend practices, team outings, college seminars, and tournaments.
Parents’ Board
This year, the StreetSquash Parent Board raised enough money to buy all of our new students warm-up jackets. Every couple of years, as the students grow out of their old jackets, parents have taken on the challenge of buying them new ones. This year, however, with jackets only a year old and no need for new ones, the parents still picked up the tab for the very newest members of StreetSquash, who have never received a warm up jacket before. Because in our new space we have room to serve more children, we had an unprecedented number of new recruits this year. To initiate them onto the team and to make them feel like a part of the StreetSquash family, the parents (new and old) decided to band together to suit these kids up!
Three parent leaders emerged from this endeavor by spearheading fundraising initiatives. Rena Bolds put together a fundraiser through Little Lamb Cookie Dough, through which the families sold enough cookies to raise the bulk of the money going toward the jackets. Nereida Soto sold StreetSquash T-Shirts on which purchasers could have printed anything they wanted. Look out for StreetSquash supporters in these personalized T-Shirts! Dalton Rodney used his expertise in Defensive Driving and taught a class at the StreetSquash building. Half of the proceeds were donated to StreetSquash. Thank you to the parent leaders and all parents for reaching the goal of providing a new jacket for every new StreetSquasher!
Parent Board meetings are held the second Friday of every month. This year the Parent Board has roared to life, and has many plans to support their children and StreetSquash programming by becoming involved in a variety of ways. Parents, let your voice be heard, and join us at our monthly meetings!