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Star Kids
Scholarship Program
P.O. Box 6214
Middletown, RI 02842
Newport and Fall River Program:
(401) 293-0676
spetronello@starkidsprogram.org
New Bedford Program:
(774) 202-5224
jzwirblis@comcast.net
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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.
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