Community Corner
North Reading Police and CIT Host Summer Academy
Program offered to students entering grades 6 and up
The North Reading Police Department and Community Impact Team are offering a Summer Academy to North Reading students this summer. This leadership and personal growth program fuses activity, games, reflection, and adventure to practice and learn skills such as effective communication, conflict resolution, mediation, situational leadership styles, social-emotional awareness, substance use prevention resistance skills, active listening, resisting peer pressure and more. Police Chief Michael P. Murphy explained, “This is the first time we have been able to offer this curriculum to students. We hope that by providing explicit instruction and practice with these important skills, our students will be better equipped to resist high-risk behaviors.”
The program will be instructed by School Resource Officer Paul Lucci and Drug-Free Communities Grant Director Amy Luckiewicz, along with other guests and speakers. Luckiewicz added, “The curriculum is based on Adventure-Based Counseling by Project Adventure. Students can expect to have fun, but also be pushed out of their comfort zones a bit.” She gave the example, “We purposefully don’t give students too much information about what’s next. Instead, we ask them to focus and complete the activity that’s in front of them.”
Three summer sessions are divided by grade level and run Tuesday through Thursday, 8:00am-2:00pm at the North Reading Police Department.
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Session 1: for students entering grades 9-12 (2-week session, $100 per student)
July 23, July 24, July 25, July 30, July 31 and August 1
Session 2: for students entering grades 6-9 (2-week session, $100 per student)
August 6, August 7, August 8, August 13, August 14, and August 15
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Session 3: for students entering grade 6 only (3-day session, $30 per student, no field trip)
August 20, August 21, and August 22
The two-week sessions include day adventure trips. Fees cover supplies and field trip expenses. Financial assistance is available to those that qualify. For more information or financial assistance, please contact Amy Luckiewicz at aluckiewicz@nrpd.org or call (978)357-5054. To register for the Summer Academy, please visit www.northreadingma.gov/CIT and click on “events”.
