Strive Transitional Program

Happy Halloween from the STRIVE crew!! We had a great week visiting The Spot Downtown A Rankin County School District Program, working at the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science and painting pottery to stock up for our Christmas open house that will be coming up soon!! Our awesome STRIVE alumna Elizabeth Mann got to come back and join our Halloween party today! Hope you all have a very fun weekend!

It was a great day! Thank you to the Northwest Rankin High School classes for coming out and supporting us at Backwater Grill Taphouse and Oyster Bar!! Our precious Lizzy, who graduated the program last year, also made an appearance and met our new STRIVE crew! Thank you to all of our friends who showed up and for the continued support! We will be doing job training at Backwater again on Friday, November 13th from 11:00-1:30 so mark your calendars and come get a delicious lunch and let us serve you! Have a great weekend! 💜

What a wonderful Wednesday!! Thank you so much to Paxton McGee for coming and doing a Halloween cookie icing class with us! We had such a good time and the cookies not only looked cool, but were delicious!!!

*** If you need a cake, cookies, cupcakes or any sweet treat for a special occasion, go follow Paxton and support his business Pappy’s Pastries! He is so talented! 🧡🖤🧡

We had a wonderful week back after our break! We worked hard on some pottery, went and worked at the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science, cooked stuffed chicken with potatoes and bread sticks, and got to do our Friday shift at Backwater Grill Taphouse and Oyster Bar!! This group is so fun! We hope you all have a great weekend!! ❤️❤️❤️

We had a great week working at Rosie’s Community Garden and Backwater Grill Taphouse and Oyster Bar! We also went to Walmart to compare prices and look for sales to stay in our budget for our October supplies. Our sweet friend Ericka Ligon came to visit our room and brought a huge box of donuts for us to enjoy. We painted some beautiful pottery pieces that will be for sale soon!!

Next week is Fall Break, so our crew will be out from October 5th-12th! They will return October 13th! A big THANK YOU to all of our supporters! Hope you all have a great weekend!

Love,
STRIVE
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Come to Backwater Grill in Brandon for lunch tomorrow (Friday, October 2nd) from 11-1 to get served by STRIVE!!!

What a beautiful morning it was at Rosie’s Community Garden! We got to help process loofahs today and had a great time. The weather was perfect! 🧡🤎❤️

✨STRIVE STUDENT SPOTLIGHT✨

Elizabeth B. 🤩

Strengths- Lizzy is very outgoing and friendly. She never meets a stranger and gets along well with everyone! She is very responsible and independent and will do any task you give her! She is very artsy and can paint and decorate things nicely.

Interests- Lizzy loves to bake any kind of sweet treat! She loves to find new recipes and try them in the classroom! She is also a very talented artist and loves to paint. She loves all animals, especially cats!

Future Goals- Lizzy wants to own a bakery one day where she can make sweet treats for everyone to enjoy!

Her birthday is this Friday so we will be celebrating this week letting her make her own birthday cake (she really wanted to 😂)!!

This week was a busy one, but a GREAT one! Tuesday we got to start back at one of our favorite places Rosie’s Community Garden! Ms. Michelle and Ms. Natalie got to meet our new members of the crew and show us all of the things they worked so hard on growing this summer!

Wednesday we worked hard on painting some new pottery pieces, loading the kiln, and cooking homemade pizza in the classroom! It was delicious!!

Thursday our friends from Merrill Lynch came and helped us learn about the importance of budgeting!

Today we got to go to the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science to help volunteer for their Science Fest!! We were in charge of the water relay station and had a BLAST instructing them and watching them compete!

A big thanks to all who support our STRIVE program we hope you have a great weekend!! ❤️❤️❤️

💫What an AWESOME day!!! 💫

We want to give a huge thanks to our friends at Merrill Lynch who came today to teach us about the importance of budgeting!! They not only came in with a hands on learning activity that really helped our crew grasp the concept of wants vs needs/budgeting a paycheck, but also brought us a TON of classroom supplies and lunch! It was so cool to see them think hard about their futures and get ideas on what they should do when they get their first real paycheck!

Thank you Natella, Candice, and Alexis Dyess for the time and effort you took to make this fun and exciting for them and for all of the supplies you brought us! They had such a good time learning from you! ❤️❤️❤️