Wean Foundation makes big award to Youngstown counseling center

WARREN — The Raymond John Wean Foundation recently distributed about $1 million to Mahoning Valley organizations that are concerned about issues such as economic development, child growth and welfare, the environment and poverty.

The largest grant from the June allocation meeting was $575,000 awarded to D&E Counseling Center, 711 Belmont Ave., Youngstown, which plans to operate a kindergarten-readiness program for preschoolers living in the Youngstown City School District.

The D&E Counseling Center program, SPARK, will mirror the Warren SPARK program and is aimed at helping preschoolers and their parents develop habits that will improve the children’s success in school, said Joel Ratner, foundation president, in a press release.

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