Quillayute Valley School District in Forks has been awarded a three-year, $359,085 grant from the U.S. Department of Education.
The grant will provide adult mentors for at-risk students in grades four through eight.
It will provide $119,695 per year to hire a mentoring coordinator and support staff, provide professional development for staff, recruit, screen and train mentors, disseminate outreach materials and evaluate the mentor program.
School district officials and the West Olympic Peninsula Betterment Association wrote a grant proposal to serve 30 students who were at risk of educational failure through the Forks Connecting Schools and Communities Initiative’s Power Lunch Mentoring Project.
The project will be a weekly, one-hour structured school-based meeting between students and adult mentors.