Mission (FMCI) - Economic Development
FMCI embraces the Hub Schools approach with a focus on alignment across programs and organizational partners. The Hub approach strives for educational success and the physical, social, and emotional well-being of students, families, and the community. This is achieved through intentional partnerships with a range of community stakeholders designed to provide opportunities, optimize assets, and address the identified needs of the students, family, and community in an equitable and culturally responsive way. The Santee Community Center and Educare are key resources within this broader strategy that allow for the integration of programming across early education, elementary school, and the broader community. Together, needs are addressed comprehensively. Whenever possible, opportunities and services are embedded in the fabric of daily school life, and the landscape of the community.
Economic Development
Key Programming
In partnership with the San Jose Public Libraries, FMCI provides ESL classes to Santee Community members twice a week for two hours. Additionally we are providing the Partners in Reading (PAR) for advanced students. Community members can receive one-on-one or small group tutoring to improve their basic reading, writing, and technology skills.
English as a Second Language Classes
Programs
Sunday Friends
Since 1997, Sunday Friends has been offering day-long programs that bring together whole families to work together, learn together, earn together, make spending decisions together and share in a healthy, warm, productive, mutually-supportive community together. Family members engage in hands-on learning activities, create gifts for children in hospitals and for nursing home residents, and prepare and serve healthy meals. They attend classes on financial literacy, parenting effectiveness, English literacy, health, nutrition, violence prevention, computer skills, and STEM education. Through their participation, family members earn “tickets”, the currency of Sunday Friends, redeemable for essential goods from the Treasure Chest.
Family, Friend, and Neighborhood
This program is for grandparents, aunts and uncles, elders, older siblings, friends, neighbors, babysitters, nannies, and others who provide informal childcare other than your own between ages 0-8 years and want to make a positive difference in their lives. Family Friend and Neighbor (FFN) who care for the kids in the community! Catholic Charities provides professional development, knowledge, skills, nurturing environment, and support to FFNs to help children grow, learn and adopt lifelong healthy habits to ensure they are kindergarten-ready and help bridge learning gaps from early on. All the services are Free of cost!