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Star Kids
Scholarship Program


P.O. Box 6214
Middletown, RI 02842

Newport and Fall River Program:
(401) 293-0676
spetronello@starkids.necoxmail.com

New Bedford Program:
(774) 202-5224
NBStarKids.JZwirblis@comcast.net




   

       Mission
The mission of the Star Kids Scholarship Program is to provide educational opportunities in the form of tuition aid to effective non-public schools,uniforms, after-school and summer programs, tutoring and mentoring for those high risk, low-income children who have a parent with a history of incarceration and/or substance abuse. Children are typically enrolled in the program between kindergarten and grade 4.

Star Kids' goal for each child is to graduate from high school. By completing high school and hopefully going on to higher education, these children will have a greater chance of breaking the intergenerational cycle of poverty, drug use, disease, depression and violence.


Providing educational opportunities to low-income, high-risk children