Community Board 8 is co-sponsoring an event called Tools and Resources Men Need for 2010 and Beyond on Saturday, June 12th from 12:00-5:00pm. The event will be at Berean Missionary Baptist Church, 1635 Bergen St between Rochester and Utica Aves. The event will feature a panel discussion, “What I Wish My Father Told Me,” with Jitu […]
CONTINUE READINGThe Mediation Center coordinates the Truancy Intervention Program at Ebbets Field Middle School 352, a program that has the goal of increasing attendance of students who are habitually absent from school. To accomplish this, coordinator Sylvia Mungin works systematically with individual students and their families to determine the reasons for absence and set goals for […]
CONTINUE READINGThe Mediation Center’s Rites of Passage program recently wrapped up another session in January. Rites of Passage is a gender specific program that gives young men and women the chance to learn about positive decision making. At the January graduation ceremony, the girls received mix CDs featuring tunes like Christina Agulera’s “Beautiful” and India Arie’s […]
CONTINUE READINGSince January 9th, the Crown Heights Community Mediation Center has been working with a phenomenal group of young women at Paul Robeson High School through the Organization of Young Women’s Rites-of-Passage Program. Rites-of-Passage is a womanhood development program that helps young women develop a positive self-image by addressing issues that arise as girls move into […]
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