The Work: As part of the youth development team, help design and implement an inspiring and hands-on 3-day summer institute with a wide variety of engaging workshops for incoming freshmen who are first-generation, college-bound students (90% are young males of color). Provide expertise and oversight as the narrative change and writing expert. Help design scholarship questions, review 40 scholarship applications, and help with evaluation and assessment of overall experience.
The Outcome: In addition, to 24/7 support during the 3-day institute, we conducted personal narrative writing workshops based on the Hero’s Journey, “Writing for Dollars” scholarship writing workshops, and delivered invigorating keynote speeches throughout.
The Highlights:
Well attended by 140 young men of color from local high schools. Read the impact report here: https://www.sacregcf.org/our-impact/preparing-students/capital-area-promise-scholars/
More than $320,000 scholarships earned by our students from essays they wrote in our workshops
Continued mentoring senior leadership at Improve Your Tomorrow with learning and development workshops throughout the school year to support incoming students.
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