Blog Entries - October 2007

Help Out Create! Acheivement BuildaBridge's New After-School Initiative

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Create! Achievement, BuildaBridge's new after-school initiative, opens today at Second Baptist Church of Germantown. Though a grant covers many of the costs, and the space is an incredible in-kind donation, there are still essentials to ensure quality programming for children living below the poverty line (Create! Achievement is free, like all our programsto vulnerable communities). Here is a list of our current needs. Feel free to Donate through GroundSpring. [...]

Kid's I know

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Rosa Lennix. This week I wanted to share with you a bit about some children I know in the community I am working in. This is Samuel and one of his little brothers. You probably recognize them from the picture you saw from my first week here. Samuel is in one of my classes. He´s a very bright and excitable student! It [...]

The Healing Begins

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Philadelphia’s professionals are learning how to respond to children who have traumatic stress symptoms through a drama based trauma prevention training.

During October and November 2007, BuildaBridge

, is implement in SW Philadelphia a drama based training in responding to trauma in youth. The program, an eight week creative and interact [...]

Create! Achievement Needs Your Help!

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BuildaBridge was recently awarded grant funding to staff a full-time after-school program. Create! Achievement will help underserved kids from the Germantown/ Mt. Airy region by providing arts educationand tutoring every weekday. In order for our students to succeed, we will need a well supplied classroom. Please consider donating money or supplies to help [...]

Guatemala Update

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By Rosa Lennix: This week when I got to class I was excited and somewhat surprised to see that the children almost completely know the greeting song we have been

working on! It´s exciting to see that they are progressing in our classes. Beyond the greeting song, I worked on the basics of shading this w [...]

Fall Landscaping Continues

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Thanks to Luis McPherson and Ron Hevey and their volunteering to assist in building a retaining wall at the BuildaBridge House. After four years of watching the yard slowly spill into the driveway, the

BuildaBridge House will have a more secure yard and a cleaner look.

BuildaBridge Community Studio Takes Another Step To Reality

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Thanks to Philadelphia's Community Design Collaborative our dream of a community studio now has a face. Following

an award by the CDC to develop initial renovation and restoration design of the carriage, and after six months of work, BuildaBridg staff met at CDC offices for an official presentation of the design. Valued at o [...]

BuildaBridge After-School Program, Create Achievement, To Begin in October

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For several years BuildaBridge has had the goal of being a restorative presence in the community where we live. Serving primarily homeless children in transitional homes they recognized that long-term change required long-term relationships--not transitional relationships. To do this a focus of BuildaBridge Community has been to enrich the off [...]

Healing Place Training Set to Begin

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Final dress rehearsal took place this evening for the Healing Place, BuildaBridge's arts-based trauma training program for caregivers working with children and youth. Forty-one participants have enlisted for

the pilot funded by Philadelphia's Department of Behavioural Health.