Group Shot!... Students from FFS and Youngsville smile after enjoying lunch and the spring performance.
Youngsville School Enjoys Spring Performance and Lunch at FFS
By Erika C.
As a way to give back and make new friends, students from The Family Foundation School and students from the Youngsville School in Sullivan County have been meeting together for fun activities and quality time. On Thursday, March 11, nine students from the Youngsville School visited FFS as a way to continue building that relationship. This is the third time this year that students from Sullivan County Boses have visited with students from FFS and the fifth time all together.
Students from Youngsville were welcomed to the school in the morning and had a chance to watch a performance of “The Imaginary Invalid.” After the performance students from both schools had a chance to talk over lunch.
Jeff Brain, Head of Admissions at FFS, saw the opportunity as a positive experience for both students. “I think it helps the students at FFS keep it green and remember what it was like before they came to the school,” Brain said. Brain also thinks that the interaction allows students from FFS to work the 12th step and help carry the message to another person that is in a similar situation.
Jamie Weener, social worker and staff at the Youngsville School, views the two schools’ meeting as a way to build relationships. “I see kids here remembering in a positive way their interaction with someone from FFS and I think that’s great,” said Weener. “I see a relationship forming and it’s in relationships that most changes can take place,” he said.
Weener believes that the students at his school can benefit from meeting with kids from The Family School because it helps to see someone at a similar age that has been in a similar situation making progress and doing something different. “Kids at FFS have realized they have difficulties that they need to deal with,” he said.
Weener picked students from his school to visit FFS, who he was confident would keep an open mind and try to learn something. “I wanted to bring kids that were going to try to have it be a positive experience,” said Weener.
Weener and Brain both hope to further the relationship forming by meeting again before seniors graduate from FFS in June. “The plan is for us to continue to attend their events and for them to attend our events. We’d like to just support each other’s schools by helping each other and getting together and having fun,” said Brain.
