Community Partnerships
Core Partners
Camp Afflerbaugh-Paige
6621 N. Stephens Ranch Road
La Verne, CA 91750
LA County Office of Education
Contact:
Urban Fellow: (909) 607-8183
Faculty Liaison:
Susan Phillips - Professor of Anthropology
CCCSI operates a cultural enrichment program at Camp Afflerbaugh-Paige, a juvenile detention camp/high school in LaVerne. Since the program's inception, CCCSI has incorporated poetry and spoken word lessons into a continually developing literacy curriculum. We also offer enrichment programs in the visual and performing arts, as well as an outdoor classroom including organic gardening.
At the end of each semester, Pitzer College hosts an event in celebration of the work completed by the wards at Afflerbaugh-Paige. Entitled “Borrowed Voices,” the event entails Pitzer students and community members reading Camp students' spoken word poetry and other works during evening peroformances. The Borrowed Voices event is so titled because the youths that author these works cannot leave the camp to read them in public. This year (2007-08) will be the first year the young men will be allowed to have their voices heard along with their words. Our intent is to disseminate this more positive side of Camp culture to educate the public at large, in particular, the Pitzer student body about the lives of Camp youth. A community book drive to augment the Camp library's holdings will also take place on performance evenings.
Prototypes
831 E. Arrow Highway
Pomona, CA 91767
(909) 398-4383
www.prototypes.org
Contact:
Urban Fellow: (909) 607-8183
Faculty Liaison
Laura Harris - Professor of English and World Literature
Prototypes, Centers for Innovation in Health, Mental Health, and Social Services, is a nonprofit organization providing state-of-the-art services to over 10,000 women and children each year. Included among these women are those who are homeless, those addicted to drugs and alcohol, those living with and at-risk for contracting HIV/AIDS, those who are diagnosed with mental illness, and women who are victims of violence.
REACH LA
Suite 240, Los Angeles, CA 90021
(213) 622-1650, ex107
www.reachla.org
Contact:
Urban Fellow: (909) 607-8183
Faculty Liaison
Gina Lamb - Professor of Media Studies
REACH LA provides training in health education, media arts and technology to educate, motivate, and mobilize youth to maintain healthy lifestyles, to improve themselves and their communities and to help fight the spread of HIV/AIDS. In the summer of 2002, CCCSI interns Jose Calderon and Jorge Nava worked to create a web-based safe-sex presentation and gave media arts workshops at REACH. They also developed an assessment of the effects of REACH's website on sexual knowledge. Pitzer students also work with youth to co-create personal documentaries and a youth magazine including their stories dealing with sexual identity, health issues, and peer education.
Pomona Economic Opportunity Center
P.O. Box 2469
Pomona, CA 91796
Tel: (909) 397-4215
www.pomonadaylabor.org
Contact:
Urban Fellow: (909) 607-8183
Faculty Liaison:
Jose Calderon - Professor of Sociology and Chicano Studies
The Pomona Economic Opportunity-Day Labor Center provides a safe, legal site for day laborers to gather and act collectively to ensure safe, fair working conditions for its members. Professor Calderon, faculty liaison, is a founding member of the organization and currently serves as secretary of the Center's Board of Directors.
An ambitious set of goals has been established for this core partnership. CCCSI and Center staff work together to:
- Educate the day laborers still on the streets about the Center's services and benefits Train new volunteers to teach English as a Second Language classes. Develop a health care needs assessment and a network for accessing health care services. Mediate conflicts and take action to prevent disputes between employers and employees, which includes wage claim disputes.
- Create a community environment of shared leadership so that workers feel a sense of ownership in their Center.
Day Laborers are available to perform a variety of tasks from raking leaves and building fences, to laying tile or building walls. Workers are skilled and responsible. Staff is on hand to translate if necessary and to assist in salary negotiation and work arrangements. The Pomona Day Labor Center encourages you to support members of the Center and discourage those who loiter on the corner. For more information, contact CCCSI or the Day Labor Center itself from 6 a.m. to 12 noon.