The Chelsea Foundation, Inc.
The Chelsea Foundation envisions a bright future for all children to live out their dreams!
PROLOGUE
Somewhere high in the sky, two pelican breaths away from the last snow peaked mountain, there lay a mystical land that many children have seen. You cannot get there by airplane, nor can you scale the tallest mountain. However, you can get there through your dreams. It is a magical place found by children and intended only for children. The only way for an adult to enter is by invitation. Castle Land offers children all they could ever want or need, including the magical playgrounds of their own design. They are free to laugh, look for sound advice, or a helping hand. It's the safe place; perfect for when they are scared. The two in charge of Castle Land are two storks, the Grand Marshall and Queen Mum. The Chelsea Foundation is centered on three priorities embodied by Chelsea, the stork mascot: family, community consciousness, and the nurturing of values. The Foundation works to improve and ensure the future’s quality of life and level of prosperity by instituting a Quality Effort Award Program. Our efforts are to encourages children's interest in knowledge, by taking literacy across curriculum, and rewarding effort that results in their choosing profitable life paths that achieve their dreams, while serving their communities.
The Quality Effort Award Program consists of the following:
- Chelsea's Beacon, a children's magazine, published on line, is filled with appropriate material for children six through twelve. It offers many beneficial methods, formats and outlets that promote the written word. We use only writings submitted through a national volunteer effort of skilled professional and amateur writers.
- The Student's Beat is a day planner that allows each child to record their day-to-day efforts in achieving their dreams. The journal helps to set realistic goals and serve as a guide in efforts to achieve these goals. The journal gives practical, as well as lively and fun methods to help children take greater control over their own lives.
- The Quality Effort Award recognizes effort, certificates acknowledge a child's efforts.
Good—better—best! Never rest until good is better, and better is best.
The Quality Effort Award Program is about focus. Understanding and retention of information cannot be mandated, only encouraged. This is especially true where children are the concern! Children who have lived through traumatic experiences, such as national disasters, may find focus difficult. Students suffering from trauma, depression and a host of other problems can quickly find themselves falling in behind their classmates who are the "achievers," and not see their own progress. They often stop trying when the emphasis is on results that seem remote; and worse, they begin to interpret their failures with two words, "I'm dumb!" This attitude often compounds the situation. Children's emotional wounds, no matter how small, can be carried into adult lives if not given an opportunity to heal. By putting emphasis on the quality effort, not results, knowledge comes easier, is accepted and, thus, acquired. Efforts bring success, encouragement brings more effort, and desired results follow.
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