Forrest Outreach Foundation Donates Computers to 70 Families

April 9, 2007

Seventy Plano ISD students have received brand-new laptop computers, printers and software from Forrest Outreach Foundation through its "Click-For-Success" mentor program designed to provide hands-on computer training and Internet access to economically disadvantaged students and their families.

More than 4,000 Collin County youth live below the poverty line. Many of these students do not have regular access to a computer and they cannot practice computer skills in their homes. As a result, these children can fall behind in school. Often, their parents lack computer skills as well and do not know how to help them.

Click-for-Success offers a comprehensive solution. This non-profit program provides 70 Plano ISD students and their families with laptop computers, printers and software, as well as a detailed and fun-filled three-year curriculum.

The program currently operates at Meadows and Mendenhall Elementary School and Armstrong Middle School. The children in the program attend a weekly computer club after school, and a Click-for-Success mentor visits their home every other week to teach computer skills to the children and their parents. This program promotes digital literacy, empowering everyone in the family toward a better education, career and future.

If you are interested in volunteering as a Click-for-Success mentor, please contact Kim Kamen, Program Director, director@click-for-success.org. If you are interested in sponsoring this program through financial or in-kind donations, please contact Tanya Greene, Executive Director of Forrest Outreach Foundation at executivedirector@forrestoutreachfoundation.org.