2011

The 2011 Joanna Clarke Excellence in Education Award (JCA) winners were Catch Up Literacy for its Catch Up Cayman programme and the Speech and Language Therapy Department for its training assistance programme Making Hanen Happen.

With each of the winners receiving a $6,000 KYD grant, the award assists in funding their worthy initiatives as well raising awareness about the effort and encouraging further private sector support from the community.

Catch Up Literacy requested funding to continue to offer its Catch Up Cayman programme which seeks to address the problem of underachievement that is often rooted in literacy and numeracy challenges. In 2010 literacy coaches underwent training to offer the programme which is based on a proven literacy model that enables and supports the sustainable use and embedding of the Catch Up Cayman intervention for ‘at risk’ students across Cayman’s public schools.

The Speech and Language Therapy Department sought funding to set up a training assistance programme “Making Hanen Happen” which is intended to train and support parents and caregivers of children with language delays to understand how they can assist with language development. Parents and caregivers will undergo a 12-week training programme to become language facilitators and understand how to maximize children’s daily routines, even playtimes.

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