Encouraging children and teens to thrive in positive, healthy, and safe environments is the focus of Nazareth College’s community youth development (CYD) program. During February Recess, students from the Youth Leadership Coalition, Levine Center to End Hate and Youth Vision One Voice met with CYD students to share with these future youth workers what good youth work looks like, sound like, and feels like from their perspective as youth. They also got to collaborate with the CYD students and their peers to develop a draft outline of their respective workshops for the Youth Summit. 

The summit will take place on April 28, 2023. Registration details will be available soon.

The Parent Engagement Collaborative Action Network is excited to identify priorities for 2023 and build and strengthen connections and relationships between and among PECAN Leadership members and stakeholders.

During the February convener meeting, Janice Kpor, incoming co-chair and Maurice Haskins, outgoing co-chair, shared with Conveners the highlights from recent PECAN strategy sessions. At our next public session, we will share the priorities identified from those sessions as well as the learnings coming out of the Healthy and Equitable Futures Learning Collaborative.  

Parent voice is essential as we get closer to determining PECAN’s direction for 2023 and beyond. Join us for the PECAN Public Session on Thursday, March 16, 2023, from 6-7:30pm via Zoom.

We invite you to join us for the next High School Graduation Outcomes Team meeting on March 28th from 6pm – 7:30pm via Zoom. The team is in the process of determining strategy in the areas of high school graduation, attendance, and the 9th grade experience. 

Our co-chairs facilitated a breakout session during the Convener meeting to share our progress to date.  

In the months ahead, we will begin to: 

• Finalize the strategies identified thus far, 
• Determine for whom the strategy is actionable, 
• Develop action plans for each strategy, and 
• Initiate a marketing campaign to Education Service Providers. 

Use this link to join the HSGOT distribution list. We look forward to seeing you on March 28th at 6pm.  

We are proud to share that between August 2022 - January 2023, 75 alliance members completed C.O.R.E. Module 1! This includes conveners, High School Graduation Outcomes Team, PECAN, Whole Child Initiative, and backbone members. 

C.O.R.E. Module 2, coming in April, will focus on racially equitable collective impact, shifting power dynamics, and being an antiracist Alliance member. 

C.O.R.E., which stands for Community Onboarding & Reboarding Experience, is a customized learning series that will help us approach the collective work of the alliance with more alignment. C.O.R.E. was founded because building a foundation of shared understanding is a critical step toward systems change and transformation. Through C.O.R.E., we are building relationships & trust, deepening our understanding of racial equity, and moving toward the mental model level of systems change. 

This month, Willie Robinson, ROC the Future’s Operations Director, was invited to speak at Wilson Foundation Academy’s February Recess Boot Camp for students in K- 6^th grade. The boot camp was designed to provide students who self-selected to attend with additional assistance in ELA, math and science. 

Willie’s presentation was entitled, Learning to ROAR as you SOAR. Both words are acronyms which stand for:

Respectful

On task

Always safe

Responsive

and

Safe choices

Organized and ready

Act responsibly, and

Respectfully.

Willie’s interactive presentation helped students to set goals, reminded them to be focused, strong, powerful, and always mindful of how they represent themselves and their families.