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Hudson YMCA seeks larger district grant to sustain teen center, cites rising costs and student participation
Summary
Cassie Athorpe, community program director for the Hudson YMCA, told the Saint Croix School District board the YMCA-run teen center at the middle school served 2,780 visits this school year, pays student workers competitive wages, and is asking the district to increase an annual grant from $35,000 toward $50,000 to avoid cutting programs.
Cassie Athorpe, community program director at the Hudson YMCA, presented the YMCA’s year-end report for the Saint Croix teen center at the June 16 board meeting and asked the district to consider increasing its longstanding annual grant.
Athorpe said the teen center saw 2,780 visits this year, averaging about 22 students per day during the school year, and added that student volunteer and paid-staff opportunities expanded: seventh- and eighth-graders logged 215 volunteer hours staffing a concession-stand leaders club and the YMCA hired six Saint Croix Central high school students as paid assistants. “We are at a spot of we might have…
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