001hi I'm Shelby Dominic Reed and I have the honor of serving the community of Greenwood as seat n's trustee for Greenwood School District 50 and today I am here with Mrs Amy Clark who is the community manager for healthy Learners Upstate and I'm delighted to be able to spend time with you Amy and for you to tell us a little bit more about healthy Learners thanks Joy I'm so delighted to be here and to be able to chat with you today tell me tell us a little bit more about the goal and purpose of healthy Learners so healthy Learners is a nonprofit organization and we are here in Greenwood and we exist to eliminate Health barriers to learning for children in districts 50 51 and 52 excellent well we I I can say as a
002member of the community that I am so grateful for all of the work that you and your um team do in Greenwood County and I understand this this year y'all have already served 400 plus students that's a lot of doctor's appointments dentist appointments what does that look like it is a lot yes we have served over 400 children that was in um 24 yes so we are out and about a lot serving children in District 50 um children who might need to go to the dentist or to the eye doctor who or who may have a medication need who may have a hearing need so it is a lot of scheduling a lot of going to schools and working with nurses and student support facilitators and we honestly could not do it without the support
003of this district and all the support that we're getting from you guys so thank you so much so let's talk about that for a second you're non profit yes so how how do you make this happen where do your funds come from we are heavily funded by self- Regional um self Family Foundation is heavily involved um lots of Grants what can we as community members do to help when it comes to funding for healthy Learners that's a great question so if you haven't heard of healthy Learners you may have heard of the spelling be um healthy Learners does one fundraiser A year it's the adult spelling it is always the last Tuesday in September at Emerald High School and that is a great way to get involved uh this year it's going to be extra
004special because we are celebrating our 20 year anniversary in Greenwood healthy Learners came to Greenwood 20 years ago um this year in August so it's going to be a big deal so that would be a great way to get involved and to help sponsor a team be on a team um be a part of the spelling be is a great way to help healthy Learners and recently the South Carolina School Board Association recognized healthy learners for the champion of public education award um which we were delighted that you all are recipient of that special award um and I hope that you all recognize and know how valuable we see the work that you do and the state recognizes the work that you do to uh ensure that help these students in our community are going
005to be greater students and give greater to the state of South Carolina so thank you for all that you do and congratulations on that award well thank you so much for nominating us it was such an honor to be nominated and so such an honor to be a part of this district and to be recognized and we just honestly could not do it without the support of the school board and of Dr Glenn and everyone with the district we were so thankful to be such great partners so how would a parent who may need to connect with you what would that process look like if somebody realizes wow these are services that my family could really benefit from my child could benefit from what does that con that's a great question uh the school and
006nurse um at your child school can connect you with healthy Learners um there's also an online consent form at our healthy learners. medom website and you can always go there and fill that out and we can get connected you help you get connected to services from there well Amy thanks so much for your time today and thank you for all that you and um the healthy Learners team provide to the community of Greenwood thank you