Mccurdy Schools of Northern New Mexico

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“DESCRIPTION OF ACTIVITIES OFMcCURDY SCHOOLS OF NORTHERN NEW MEXICOMcCurdy Schools of Northern New Mexico (McCurdy Schools) was incorporated in 1968, but its history as a faith-based educational mission founded by the United Brethren Church (which later merged with the Methodist Church to form The United Methodist Church) stretches back to the early years of the 20th century. In the years since McCurdy Schools was first granted tax exempt status under 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, its specific activities have changed, but the educational, religious, and charitable core of those activities remains the same, as do its close ties with The United Methodist Church. In 2012, it was determined that it would be beneficial to transfer the K-12th grade school operations to a school chartered by the State of New Mexico and operated independently from the McCurdy Schools under the New Mexico charter school requirements. McCurdy Schools continued to operate under the name McCurdy Ministries and in 2017 began using the trade name McCurdy Ministries Community Center. McCurdy Ministries Community Center provides healthy low cost meals to the students, preschool, after school care, summer camp, volunteer, and mental health counseling programs to students and their families, including the following: Project Cario), an on-site mental health counseling program, offers, free of charge, mental health services for children and their families, site-based consultation time with teachers of McCurdy Charter School, McCurdy Minstries pre-K, and children attending McCurdy Minstries preschool, after school care, and Camp Stars programs. Project Carino provided over 5993 hours of mental health services in 2018.We provide a pre-K program that is a state-funded and licensed basic program to help 4-year olds achieve both cognitive and developmental growth to prepare them for kindergarten.We provide a faith-based afternoon preschool, three hours a day, four days a week. Our preschool is an extended afternoon faith-based preschool program for four-year-olds that allows children to continue achieving developmental strides, while incorporating a Christ-centered curriculum. We provide faith-based after-school care, three hours a day, five days a week. This after-school care provides children in pre-K through 6th grade with after-school activities, snacks, homework assistance, and Christian-based activities.Our faith-based Camp Stars is a 6-week summer program for children who have completed preschool through 5th grade. Camp Stars offers a vacation bible school theme with bible study activities, skits, and arts and crafts coupled with age-appropriate STEM activities incorporating Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math, to avoid the summer lag in learning and retention by providing children opportunities for academic enrichment. Camp Stars provided 6-1/2 hours of STEM education daily for six weeks to approximately 33 students in 2018. Our Volunteers in Mission program incorporates volunteers, both local and from throughout the United States, coming to our campus to help with maintenance and upkeep of facilities, clerical work, classroom help, serving as tutors, and (for those eligible to do so) helping fill in as substitutes for Camp Stars or After School Care. Seeing our Volunteers faith in action speaks volumes to the children as they go about their work and exemplify what it means to be Gods hands and feet. Over 284 volunteers participated in the VIM program in 2018. In addition, making a collaborative use of our facilities, McCurdy Ministries Community Center is the vendor for the breakfast and lunch program at McCurdy Charter School, a separate, state-chartered public school. We are also allowed to feed our pre-K program participants and volunteers in the McCurdy Charter School cafeteria.The specific activities of McCurdy Ministries Community Center have continued to adapt to the needs of our community. Our programs still include the programs and se”