Y.A.L.E. School Students Take Part In "Shop With A Cop"

Egg Harbor, NJ – Students at Y.A.L.E. School’s Northfield Campus recently donated to Egg Harbor Township Police Athletic League’s “Shop With A Cop” day. The nation-wide program allows children to be joined by uniformed police officers and volunteers to do holiday shopping for their families using funds donated by community partners. The program is designed to help foster positive relationships between at-risk students and police officers.

As part of their school-based behavior program, students at Y.A.L.E. School earn “Y.A.L.E. Bucks” as part of a reward system for following school rules and meeting individual behavior goals. Typically students exchange the “Bucks” for items at the school store but instead opted to donate their “bucks” to the “Shop With A Cop” program. Students contributed a total of 428 “Y.A.L.E. Bucks,” which were cashed in for real dollars by staff and families after which Y.A.L.E. School wrote a check to the Egg Harbor PAL for the holiday event.

“Our students have learning, social and emotional disabilities. This is an important way for our students to give back to their local community and support the work of the Police Athletic League,” said Alvin Doyle Jr., Principal at the Y.A.L.E. School Northfield Campus.

Staff and students nominated two students, 10 year-old Jadah Butler, of Atlantic City and 11 year-old Anthony Platt, of Egg Harbor Township to go shopping with a police officer. The event will be take place on December 12, 2015 at Walmart of Mays Landing.

“Y.A.L.E. School is proud to be part of this community event where positive relationships are fostered between youth and police officers and where students learn the value of helping those in need,” concluded Doyle.

ABOUT: Y.A.L.E. School’s Northfield Campus is serves students 5 to 21 years of age with one or a combination of emotional, behavioral, social or learning disabilities including: anxiety disorder, A.D.H.D., mood and/or specific learning disabilities and oppositional defiant disorders. The Northfield campus offers: small class sizes, social skills instruction, ABA-based instruction, highly qualified teachers and activities in the community to prepare students for life after graduation. As a state-approved private school for students with disabilities, students ages 5-21 are placed by their local school district and attend at no cost to parents For more information please visit: http://yaleschool.com/campuses/emotionalsupport/northfield/ or call: 609-677-9960.