The partnership between CB Cares and the Central Bucks School District is long-standing. Since its inception, CB Cares has been involved in promoting the 40 Developmental Assets in our local schools through programs and trainings, with the goal of fostering positive behaviors and values in our community’s youth.

At the present time, there are many active school programs which represent the mission of CB Cares - serving as a community catalyst by engaging, empowering, and linking people, organizations and businesses in the community.

Programs
Boomerang Youth Recognition Award
Newspapers in Education (NIE)
Communtiy Connections
Alcohol, Tobacco & Other Drug Prevention (ATOD) Programs
Character Counts

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Boomerang Youth Recognition Award
“What goes around, comes around.”

This youth recognition award was created to recognize students in the Central Bucks School District (one from elementary, middle, and high school) for living by a monthly asset. The 40 Developmental Assets are positive experiences, behaviors, and personal qualities that all youth need to possess, in order to be responsible, caring, and strong in the face of peer pressures and other life challenges.
To nominate someone for the Boomerang Youth Award, click here!
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Newspapers in Education (NIE)
In 1955 Newspaper in Education NIE was launch as an international program to advance the use of newspapers in the classroom. The mission of NIE is to improve a student’s reading, comprehension, spelling and writing skills. Locally The Doylestown Patriot and CB Cares in conjunction with the Central
Bucks School District crafted this program now in its 3rd year to showcase the work of our talented students. Every school in the district receives a delivery of The Doylestown Patriot. These customized pages of the Patriot often include student’s artwork, poetry, photos and the Backpack Newsflash. Our students can benefit from so many of the paper’s features while enjoying the content of this special section.

Without question newspapers in our schools increases a student’s overall awareness of local, regional and national events. Teachers are encouraged to use the newspapers as textbooks to enhance academic areas such as reading, writing, math, science, history, economics, and language arts, special education. More importantly the NIE program is a unique tool for the students who are English as a second language students. The newspaper can easily be integrated into any classroom subject. The skills gained from regular newspaper exposure make each student a better learner, a better problem-solver, and a better leader.

So, as you discover these customized pages of The Doylestown Patriot know you are discovering the pulse of our youth. There may be an aspiring journalist or artist who is just starting out between the pages of NIE. Look for a talented writer or artist from your school the next time you pick up The Doylestown Patriot.
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Healthier Community Connections
CB Cares Community Connections program offers Central Bucks schools an opportunity to apply for funding, which supports assemblies, programs, and presentations that compliment the district’s curriculum and focus on healthy youth development. School administrators, teachers and Home and School Associations are welcome to submit grant applications during
funding cycle.
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Alcohol, Tobacco & Other Drug Prevention
(ATOD) Programs — Reality Rules
While fear based programs have successfully addressed short terms ATOD concerns such as the need to reduce drinking and driving incidents over prom weekends, recent studies indicate the need to address preventative measures with a long term goal of behavior modification. Reality Rules is a research based Social Norms marketing based campaign designed to affect
behavior by shifting unhealthy behavior based on misperceptions to healthy behavior based on reality.
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Character Counts
The origins of character counts began in 1992. The nonprofit Josephson Institute of Ethics hosted a gathering of experts in ethics and character education to find ways to work together, primarily by developing a common language of core ethical values that transcend religious, political, and social economic differences. This conference, held in Aspen Colorado, produced
the Aspen Declaration, which identified the values we now call the Six Pillars of Character – trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, fairness, caring, and citizenship. To enhance this Declaration, Josephson Institute in 1993 launched CHARACTER COUNTS!

CB Cares has partnered with Lenape Middle School to launch this new initiative and the program with members from the “West Cluster” to include CB West H.S. and Lenape Middle School. Initial education about the program will be targeted to administration (district and building), athletic directors (secondary schools), all coaches at pilot schools, the athletes (fall, winter, spring sports), parents and officials.

The ultimate goal is to expand this program to all schools and their respective community athletic leagues (Lenape Valley, Doylestown AA, Warrington AA, etc.). This too, includes coaches and parents.
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