Our Programs

Sight For Students

Qualified students receive free eye exams and eyeglasses through a national vision service plan partnership. This program is for low-income students under age 18 without Medicaid or vision insurance. Students may be referred by anyone.

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Great Leaps Reading

Great Leaps Reading Program is a program designed by Kenneth Campbell from Gainesville, Florida that helps students overcome a variety of reading problems. Great Leaps Reading is widely implemented across the country. Students with reading problems have responded with significant gains.

Great Leaps is a supplemental reading program that is divided in three major areas: (1) Phonics: developing and mastering essential sight-sound relationships and/or sound awareness skills; (2) Sight Phrases: mastering sight words while developing and improving focusing skills; and (3) Reading Fluency: using age-appropriate stories specifically designed to build reading fluency, reading motivation, and proper intonation.

CCCFS has partnered with Hayesville Elementary to implement Great Leaps Reading since 1998. One volunteer coordinator overseas all of the tutors in the program. The tutors attend a training session which usually takes about three hours. The students that participate in the program are chosen by their classroom teacher. Students work individually with an instructor and the materials for less than ten minutes per day (three days per week minimum). The materials (one instructor’s manual and one student notebook) are age appropriate and comprehensive.

The Phonics takes students from identifying sounds in isolation to being able to sound out cvc,cvvc, and cvce patterns. This enables students to (with contextual clues) decode unknown words with a high degree of success. The Sight Phrases use phrases to teach sight words while significantly increasing focusing skills. Teaching sight words in isolation has not worked for most students with reading problems. The Great Leaps approach of using sight phrases helps to minimize the age old problem of readers continuously missing words such as these, them, of, off, from, etc. The stories have been designed and written to not only significantly increase reading fluency, but also motivate students to want to continue reading. Use of point of view, humor, rhyme, and rhythm all contribute to a powerful fluency-building intervention.

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Great Leaps Math

The Great Leaps Math Program focuses on building fluency in the basic facts, including addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. It features concrete lessons (using manipulative objects) and representational lessons (using student drawings) to help the student understand the concepts behind the four basic math operations.

Once the student demonstrates understanding through the concrete and representational lessons, fluency-building lessons begin through one-minute timings of oral and written student responses to math facts. The student repeats the one-minute timings until a standard practice rate on oral timings and a standard fluency rate on written timings are achieved.

During the 5- to 7-minute daily session, the instructor follows the word GREAT as a mnemonic device to conduct a five-step lesson plan. The student moves from oral practice lessons to written fluency lessons to written generalization fluency lessons. Results of the timings are recorded on a math chart, and goals are provided according to the age of the student. The use of rules and relationships throughout the lessons enhances mastery of the math facts. The program consists of three instructor manuals and three student workbooks: Addition and Subtraction Facts 0 to 9, Addition and Subtraction Facts 10 to 18, and Multiplication and Division Facts. Placement tests and directions for instructional math games are provided. The program has been field-tested, and the data indicate excellent student progress and teacher acceptance.

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English as a Second Language

Mentors work with students on their English skills and school work, helping them function in classroom settings.

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Hands of Hope

The mission of Hayesville Hands of Hope is to help meet the needs of residents of Clay County who are in a temporary crisis situation, while emphasizing personal responsibility. Hayesville Hands of Hope evolved from a Christmas Program called Holiday Hope in the Fall of 1997. Holiday Hope was formed to bring various agencies and churches of the community together to help those in need during the holidays. This endeavor proved so successful that the committee was reformed to continue helping families in need throughout the year.

For more information, you may contact:

Hannah Miller, CCCFS Executive Director at (828) 389-1625

Becky Grindstaff, Hands of Hope Chairperson at (828) 389-6301