17 Teenagers Graduate From Preparation, Well-being, Culture Program | Houses & Life-style

The Housing Authority of the City of Santa Barbara (HACSB), in coordination with 2nd Story Associates, has accomplished its Preparación, Bienestar y Cultura (Preparation, Well-being and Culture) free summer season initiative centered on “life preparation” with 17 teenagers graduating from this system.

The program gives centered actions that promote academic alternatives, social-emotional assist, and cultural consciousness.

Students take part in quite a lot of discipline journeys, earn neighborhood service hours, take part in school excursions, and obtain a free backpack and college provides. 

“In addition to providing affordable housing, the Housing Authority of the City of Santa Barbara understands that residents need additional skills, tools and opportunities to succeed,” mentioned Hector Avila, HACSB Resident Program specialist.

The Preparación, Bienestar y Cultura program additionally focuses on selling cultural consciousness to domesticate a stronger sense of self for numerous college students.

Activities are aimed toward enhancing college students’ educational efficiency and significant considering abilities, and social and neighborhood engagement by interactive workshops and displays that discover subjects resembling social justice, social actions, and household/cultural traditions. 

Graduates every acquired a Jansport backpack, A Solar Powered Charger that was donated in collaboration between Deckers Brands and native nonprofit Unite to Light, a $100 Stipend and $50 goal present card for varsity provides.

Other program companions embrace New Beginnings Counseling Center, Kind World Foundation and Eileen and Charlie Read.

Students had been celebrated earlier this month throughout a commencement ceremony, together with their households and Housing Authority workers. 

The Housing Authority of the City of Santa Barbara is an area public company created for the aim of offering protected, first rate, and high quality reasonably priced housing and supportive companies to eligible individuals with restricted incomes, by quite a lot of federal, state, native and personal sources.

2nd Story Associates is a nonprofit company created to assist the event of reasonably priced housing and promote social companies for the advantage of low-income members of the Santa Barbara neighborhood; go to 2nd-story.org/.