Shiloh's Care Team Coordinator:  Catherine Caruso, Counselor

Care Teams are made up of staff from local schools that meet regularly to plan and carry out projects that assist their students. While the nature of these projects varies to meet the diversified needs of individual schools, in general, Care Team efforts enhance students’ resiliency and support academic success by building personal and community assets and by eliminating barriers that impede student achievement.

Care Teams at many schools provide financial assistance for necessities such as clothing, eyeglasses, and food as well as scholarships for tutoring, field trips, and extracurricular activities.  Additionally, Care Teams at many schools sponsor programs including peer mediation, drug prevention, diversity awareness, and mentoring.  

Care Team coordinators should refer to the letter from the GCPS Office of Finance and Accounting for details and guidelines that must be followed for raising and spending Care Team monies.  In order to share funds with other schools, this goal must be written in the plans when you begin fund raising efforts.

"All the Reforms in the World Won't Mean a Thing If We Don't Have Safe Classrooms for Students to Learn and Teachers to Teach and one of the keys to prevention we learned is we as adults in our homes, our schools and our communities, must do a better job of listening to kids, paying attention and connecting on a personal level.”