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Idealism in Motion | |||
| Seattle · Putting Idealism To Work |
In this issue
- Let´s Get It Started!
- Strap Up Your Boots!
- Amgen Young Heroes Team
- Calling All Alumni
- Where Are You Going To Do Your Year Of Service?
- City Year Seattle/King County Mission
Opening Day
Let´s Get It
Started!
Opening Day
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“This kick-off of a year of service celebrates the dedication of the corps members, the engagement of City Year’s service partners and the support of City Year’s contributors, “ said City Year Seattle/King County Board of Directors Co-Chair Debbie Bird: “We share a commitment to service, to the country and to Seattle and King County."
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| Opening Day Warm Up |
The Opening Day event included remarks by Nick Hanauer of Second Avenue Partners before an audience of community, corporate and civic leaders, local citizens, friends and family. Judge Richard A. Jones of the King County Superior Court administered the AmeriCorps pledge of service taken by the corps. Special guests in attendance included Councilmember Jean Godden, Representative Joe McDermott, King County Sheriff Sue Rahr, and Senator Jeanne Kohl-Welles.
Davis Wright Tremaine sponsored Opening Day. Davis Wright Tremaine partner David Tarshes said "Each year we encourage our new lawyers to make service to the community a part of their practice from the beginning of their careers. The City Year members take that advice a step further, making service an integral part of their lives even before they enter the working world. We salute them for their commitment to the community."
Opening Day launches a rewarding year during which these 45 young leaders will make a difference serving King County communities as full-time tutors, mentors and after-school program leaders for school children and organizers of physical service projects to improve area playgrounds, parks, housing areas and community facilities. City Year addresses Seattle and King County’s critical needs in education, youth, public safety, and the environment through intensive service.
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| Judge Richard Jones |
A letter from Senator Patty Murray, congratulating the City Year participants, read:
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| Julia Dekovich standing proudly during Opening Day Ceremony. |
The 45 young people taking the pledge to serve look forward to strengthening the community through a number of activities including:
Mentoring and tutoring over 2000 children in partnership with public schools;
Providing programs to encourage the success of at-risk youth;
Leading students in teams sponsored by Boeing, Amgen Foundation and Casey Family Programs;
Coordinating safe, enriching daytime school spring camps for more than 200 students;
Inspiring citizens to action through dynamic, physical service events such as National Youth Service Day and Earth Day, as well as recognizing Martin Luther King, Jr. Day as a day on for service and not a day off.
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Strap Up Your
Boots!
Comcast Cares Day
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| Comcast donates $25,000 to City Year Seattle King County |
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| Corps members "working hard!" |
At Denny Middle School, volunteers removed invasive plants and weeds from the front of the building to prepare the site for the students’ new landscape design and spruced up the conservation garden by removing invasive blackberry and ivy.
Amgen Young Heroes
Team
Program HighLights.
The Amgen Team, in partnership with Meany Middle School, will act as positive role models while providing academic and social support to a diverse student population while getting kids involved in their communities. This team has spent the last month developing and beginning to implement the Young Heroes Saturday program, which provides leadership development and service-learning experiences to middle school youth in a team-based setting. The team has received over 70 applications from 13 different middle schools across Seattle and led more than thirty youth in service with Earthcorps on a recent October Saturday. The Amgen Team also spends two days a week at Meany Middle School tutoring and running after-school programs. The team is currently entering classrooms, analyzing where their help is most needed, and working with low-level readers, one-and-one and in small groups.
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| Amgen Young Heroes Team |
City Year Seattle/King County is excited this year to engage alumni community up and running this year. Moreover, the new corps and staff are looking forward to interacting with alumni this year and increasing its powerful service.
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| Tim Mulally, Senior Corps Member for 05/06 year. |
We are looking forward to increasing alumni events and participation within City Year Seattle/King County. We hope that alumni will have a chance to pass on the knowledge of their service year and rekindle their commitment to service. Who will be next?
Where Are You
Going To Do Your Year Of Service?
Recruitment
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| Dennis Jimeson planting trees for Comcast Cares Day. |
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| Joseph Supang at Comcast Cares Day |
City Year
Seattle/King County Mission
Development
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| Dana Rae planting trees |
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| Jessica Silye |
As the Corps Members are dedicating themselves to ten months of National Service, City Year Seattle/King County is also dedicated to the Corps Members. Every Friday, the corps participated in Leadership Development Days (LDD's), where a group or corps members educate themselves on a community or world issue, and then develope a curriculumn of activities and and guest speakers to present the issue to the corps. Attached to these LDD's are service days. These service days give the corp members the chance to witness the issue first-hand in the community, and then apply what they have learned from the LDD through service. Our upcomming service days are:
Native American Service Day on November 18, 2005
Hunger and Homelessness on December 9, 2005
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| Michelle and Caroline |
