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About our Charities:
Police
And Youth (PAY)
The Police And Youth program was established in October 1998 by retried
Detective Sergeant Phil Maloney. The program was designed to link the
police department members with the local youth in the 3 middle schools
in Milford, East Shore Middle School, Harbor side Middle School and
West Shore Middle School.
The
objective of P.A.Y. is
for the police and the youth to communicate with each other and also
assist the members in the program with any troubles they may have
experienced inside school, outside of school in their personnel lives.
The officers are mentors and roll models to the youth in the program
and can directly answer questions they may have. Most young adults look
up to police officers and the officers in P.A.Y. strive to maintain and
expand that relationship.
The
selection of the
participants in the program is left entirely up to each schools
administration. Each schools administration picks 15 members ranging
from 6th through 8th grade. P.A.Y. takes place one night a week at each
of the schools from 4pm to 7pm. The Officers involved volunteer their
time and get as much out of the program as the members.
Every
week different events
are planned for each school ranging in variety from going to the
movies, Duck pin Bowling, having different actives take place at the
school and various sports activities. Before the Christmas School break
a bingo night is planned and the P.A.Y. members win prizes that are
donated by various supporters. This past winter the P.A.Y. members were
taken to New York City and saw the Christmas show at Radio City Music
Hall.
Members
in P.A.Y. will also have access to a secure area of the Milford Police
Union’s website, WWW.MILFORDPOLICEUNION.COM.
The members from the 3 schools can chat and leave messages for each
other about past and upcoming school and P.A.Y. events. The website is
monitored for content.
The
programs success is due to the efforts of the following people:
Officers S. Staurovsky, M. Lima, T. Dancy, C. Kakalow, K. Catino, A.
Dunaj, B. Rojee, N. Doerr, J. Kiely and D. Sharoh. In addition the
school administrators from Westshore, Harborside and Eastshore Middle
Schools.
The
members of the Police And Youth program would like to thank the
following supporters:
The Milford Police Union; The Milford P.B.A.; The Milford Bank; The
Milford Oyster Festival Committee; The United Way; Bridges; Milford
Transit; Arrow Bus Lines; Subway; Honey Spot pizza; Armellino's; Bella
Napoli pizza; Mama Teresa’s; East shore Pizza; Michael and
Anthony’s Pizza; Peterpan Pizza; Mr. Macs Canteen;
Paul’s
Hamburgers; The Greeks; The Party People; Montano Candy; Devon DuckPin
Bowling; Showcase Cinema; Automated Services and many other supporters
in the community.
Officer
D. Broderick
Program Director
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