Santa Monica : Crossroads School Honored
The Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences in Santa Monica has received a national award for its community service program, which encourages students to work as volunteers in programs designed to help others.
The Council for Religion in Independent Schools awarded the non-sectarian school its national Certificate of Merit for the 19-year-old program.
The program is designed to promote community spirit, cooperation and dignity by encouraging students to work with such self-help groups as Teen Line, Head Start, Adopt-a-Family, Safe Rides, Children of War Tour and Amnesty International.
It is part of the curriculum at the school, which has about 800 students in kindergarten through 12th grade. Students spend between one and 10 hours a week at the job and at the school, at 1714 21st St.
Students also are encouraged to create and organize their own community service projects, which in the past have included the African-American Network, Musicians Outreach and Books for Nigeria.
“The program has been one of the outstanding assets of Crossroads,” the school’s development director, Alva Libuser, said Tuesday. “It’s fabulous for the kids to see their efforts recognized like this.”
The certificate is the third received by a Crossroads program or one of its participants in the last two years, Libuser said.
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