Community and Student Outreach Services
The objectives of Bridge Builders to the New Generation Community and Student Outreach Program are to give the students and community an opportunity to connect through education. There will be opportunities for students to do community service events, such as cleaning up the community, feeding the homeless, mentoring students, holding student workshops on campus, etc). For the community, we will be holding workshops, such as the NCAA, parent advocacy through education, mental health, parents' and students' rights, scholarship/college application workshops, and career fairs.
Measurable Goals
- Students will earn community service hours for college applications
- Students will understand why we are doing community service
- Students will become leaders among their peers
- Students will learn how to set up and organize events and workshops
- Students will learn how to address issues on campus, learn the proper way to go about it, and build allies with administrators to have their voices be heard
- Parents will have workshops to help them with their student’s education
Program Features
Bridge Builders to the New Generation Community and Student Outreach program is here to help the community get involved in their child’s education, help the students get involved in their community, and help change their campus culture and climate.
Students might go through high school with no extracurricular activities, and this will hurt when it comes to applying to colleges. We are here to help students build their community service events as we support them through it. Students will find a problem in their community or around campus and work on finding a solution to that problem. Students will have the ability to work with other students on campus, community leaders, and administrators to help address these problems. This is not just a community service event for hours to apply to college. This is more like a project that the student could work on for their interest, something that is important to them. Students will have the ability to work on their LEADERSHIP skills, COMMUNICATION skills, ORGANIZATION skills, and political work for their project.
For the parents, we want to hold workshops to provide those resources that will help them advocate for their child’s education. Many parents have other obligations that take their focus away from their child’s education and are unsure of how to support them properly. We want to educate them about their child’s development at an early age. This will allow parents to communicate with teachers, staff, administrators, and their children. Parents do not know things about resources to help their children; they are uncertain about what their children need to attend college or programs that could help their children for a career path after high school.