Upspring's Mission: Empowering Children

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UpSpring's mission is to empower children experiencing homelessness by providing opportunities for education and enrichment. UpSpring enables students experiencing homelessness to have the same access to opportunity as all other children.
UpSpring provides the necessary recourses for these children to get to school, stay in school and succeed in school. UpSpring enhances educational opportunities through programs and services which include: UpSpring Buddies: a mentor program pairing a child with a local college student to participate in weekly relationship building activities; UpSpring After School: partners with local school, Newport Intermediate, where 1 and 10 children experience homelessness for educational after school programs; the UpSpring

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