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Number of Registered Community Partners Increases to 176 Middle-School Children Come to Campus to Celebrate Their Learning Barry’s Alternative Spring Break 2019: A Photo Flashback CCSI Announces Newsletter Publication Schedule for Summer
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Number of Registered Community Partners Increases to 176
New Partners Include
The Center for Community Service Initiatives (CCSI) has added four names to its list of registered community partners, bringing the total number to 176.
The recently registered community partners are Autism Rescue Mission, Broward County’s Animal Care and Adoption, Pace Center for Girls, and the World AIDS Museum and Educational Center.
Autism Rescue Mission was founded in 2013 as a grassroots non-profit organization to help families and children living with autism in Miami-Dade County.
Broward County’s Animal Care and Adoption provides shelter for homeless pets and helps reunite owners with their lost dog or cat. The agency offers spay/neuter services for pets and community cats, as well as neighborhood rabies clinics. In addition, the agency enforces animal laws to help support public safety. The agency also offers volunteer and foster opportunities to those interested in supporting pets in need.
The mission of Pace Center for Girls is to provide girls and young women with an opportunity for a better future through education, counseling, training, and advocacy. According to Pace, it “values all girls and young women, believing each one deserves an opportunity to find her voice, achieve her potential and celebrate a life defined by responsibility, dignity, serenity and grace.”
The World AIDS Museum is the first museum dedicated to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Located at 1201 NE 26th Street in Wilton Manors, Fla., the Educational Center provides information on treatment and prevention of HIV.
The CCSI is charged with coordinating community partnerships as part of ongoing efforts to “ensure that Barry will be recognized as a responsive community leader – a reliable resource for expertise, knowledge dissemination and public service to the diverse communities we serve.”
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Middle-School Children Come to Campus to Celebrate Their Learning
As the semester drew to a close, Tracey Presume, Kerri Richardson, and Melody Williams reflected on their experience helping middle-school children get excited about math. The children they helped came to campus for a celebration.
The Barry undergraduates had applied skills learned in Dr. Sanja Zivanovic’s calculus class as they tutored children in Miami’s Gang Alternative program.
The children themselves had expressed their need for help with math. They said they got the help they needed, and they appreciated that the new Barry Urban Garden served as a learning site for them.
With support from Presume, Richardson, and Williams, the children came to understand how to design on paper a pattern that could facilitate planting a garden plot that has an irregular shape.
Gang Alternative is a faith-based organization dedicated to fostering academic excellence and character development of inner-city youth. The organization provides programs aimed at preventing violence and delinquency while promoting self-sufficiency.
Joining in the celebration of learning on April 23 at the garden site were Dr. Ricardo Jimenez, chair of the Mathematics and Computer Science Department; Dr. Glenn A. Bowen, executive director of the Center for Community Service Initiatives (CCSI); Liz James, experiential learning coordinator; and Asha Starks, the Barry Urban Garden coordinator.
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Barry’s Alternative Spring Break 2019: A Photo Flashback
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CCSI Announces Newsletter Publication Schedule for Summer
As the summer approaches, the Center for Community Service Initiatives (CCSI) has announced a change in the publication schedule of this newsletter.
Only one issue of Community Engagement News will be published in June and one issue also in July. The next issue is scheduled to be out on June 3.
The July issue is expected to be out on the Monday before the Independence holiday.
Regular weekly issues of the newsletter are expected to return on August 19.
Community Engagement News is published by the CCSI in partnership with the Department of Marketing.
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Community Engagement News
Posted On : May 20, 2019
