By Jolene Farley
The Hills-Beaver Creek School District hired two teachers this year to staff the new after school Kid Kare program.
Heather Erickson
Heather Erickson is the Kid Kare After School Program Coordinator.
Erickson, a Dawson native, received her degrees in 1998 from South Dakota State University, Brookings, S.D., in sociology and criminal justice.
She worked as youth development coordinator for the St. James School District and for two years as after school program Instructor at Hope Haven, Estherville, Iowa.
The Hope Haven program provided at risk youth and their families with educational support and in-home or individual counseling.
Erickson and her husband, Aaron, live in Beaver Creek and are expecting their first child in February. Aaron is a Hills-Beaver Creek High School graduate.
Haley Tollefson
Kid Kare Assistant Haley Tollefson graduated in December from Southwest State University, Marshall, with a bachelor's degree in elementary education.
She was a substitute teacher during the spring and worked over the summer for Kid's Inc., a summer day camp sponsored by the Sioux Falls School District.
Tollefson and her husband, Josh, live in Sioux Falls.
Tollefson's goals for the upcoming year are to help make Kid Kare as great a program as possible and to have fun getting to know the kids and staff in the H-BC School District.