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Thirteen Henrico County Public Schools’ programs have earned 2019 National Association of Counties Achievement Awards. The annual awards recognize groundbreaking county government programs across the nation. HCPS winners were:
• The ALEX Project (Donahoe Elementary School’s schoolwide volunteer initiative).
• 3-Es of K-12 Education: Enrolled Enlisted and/or Employed (Career and Technical Education’s plan to streamline students’ paths to becoming enrolled, enlisted and/or employed).
• Making Peer Socialization a SNAP (Department of Exceptional Education’s program to help high-functioning students with autism learn and practice everyday social skills).
• Building Book Nooks, Building Community Literacy (Career and Technical Education and Library Services’ initiative to build and stock tiny lending libraries outside HCPS schools).
• A Conference Room Renovation Meets Needs of Students and Their School (Career and Technical Education’s program to help students learn skills while building an affordable conference room at Highland Springs High School).
• Setting the Bar High: CTE Letter-of-Intent Signing Day (Career and Technical Education’s ceremony celebrating students entering the workforce).
• Partnership with Roofing Professionals Gives Students a Broader Career View (Career and Technical Education’s industry partnership to create meaningful experiences and help educate students about opportunities in the roofing industry).
• Driven for Success: A New Kind of Open House (Career and Technical Education’s unique community outreach project about training and careers in the automotive industry).
• Helping First Responders and Visitors Find Their Way (Career and Technical Education and Short Pump Middle School’s initiative for student-created signs to help emergency personnel and visitors).
• Learning Carpentry While Supporting a Local Elementary School (Career and Technical Education and the Academy at Virginia Randolph’s project to build a storage shed at Lakeside Elementary School).
• Specialty Center Partnership Shares Expertise (Career and Technical Education and Varina High School’s program for instruction in audio production at the Center for Communications).
• A Practical Nursing School Collaborates for a Healthier Community (Henrico County-St. Mary’s Hospital School of Practical Nursing’s public health partnership with the Nationz Foundation).
• Tech the Halls: Reaching Our Community With a Holiday Event (Career and Technical Education’s community outreach event at the ACE Center at Hermitage).
Two programs – the CTE Letter-of-Intent Signing Day and the Department of Exceptional Education’s program for students with autism – were dual winners. The two initiatives were also recognized with an award from the Virginia Association of Counties.
Across all departments and agencies, Henrico County earned 27 Achievement Awards from the National Association of Counties. Henrico’s 27 awards are the most of any county in Virginia for the 14th consecutive year, and were the seventh most nationally. The counties finishing ahead of Henrico, such as Los Angeles County, Calif. and Miami-Dade County, Fla., all have much larger populations. Those counties all contain between 1 million and 10 million residents, while Henrico County has about 330,000 residents.
