Program Activities
Orientation
This is an activity which begins the ROP program. The orientation includes a description of the program from facilitators, mentors, parents, and graduates of the program. There are variety of fun activities and bonding moments to help the boys girls get to know one another and get off to a good start.
Learning Seminars
Centerpieces for the ROP are the classes and seminars. They cover a wide range of topics and are geared to help participants with their personal life, skills development in the areas of self-esteem, attitude, self-confidence, positive behavior, and in dealing with conflict and peer pressure.
Field Trips
Several fields trips are conducted during the program year to give initiates life experience opportunities that will reinforce, lessons learned in their seminars. The trips are both educational and cultural.
Task Mastery
During the program the initiates are expected to learn and complete several tasks that demonstrate having a better sense of his history, the history of African American people, and the importance of assuring responsibility in becoming an adult. Areas addressed are cultural, social, psychological, emotional, political and spiritual.
Tutoring and School Involvement
The program coordinators and mentors check on initiate's grades at the end of each marking period and provide appropriate assistance to help the initiate to get passing grades in every subject. The mentor (and sometimes the psychologist) will visit the school with the parents to check on the initiates programs.
Camping Trip
This experience occurs at the close of the program. It consists of taking the initiates camping as a way of bringing many of their experiences together. They are introduced to survival skills as well as new experiences that challenge them physically and intellectually.
Graduation Ceremony
This activity symbolizes the accomplishment of several tasks that demonstrate their readiness to begin their journey into manhood/womanhood. The occasion is festive with music, song, dance, drumming, food and ceremony. It is African centered with dress and custom. Both the boy and parents address the community during the ceremony to share their thoughts about their aspirations for the future. Community guests also give words of encouragement and inspiration to the young graduate.
This is an activity which begins the ROP program. The orientation includes a description of the program from facilitators, mentors, parents, and graduates of the program. There are variety of fun activities and bonding moments to help the boys girls get to know one another and get off to a good start.
Learning Seminars
Centerpieces for the ROP are the classes and seminars. They cover a wide range of topics and are geared to help participants with their personal life, skills development in the areas of self-esteem, attitude, self-confidence, positive behavior, and in dealing with conflict and peer pressure.
Field Trips
Several fields trips are conducted during the program year to give initiates life experience opportunities that will reinforce, lessons learned in their seminars. The trips are both educational and cultural.
Task Mastery
During the program the initiates are expected to learn and complete several tasks that demonstrate having a better sense of his history, the history of African American people, and the importance of assuring responsibility in becoming an adult. Areas addressed are cultural, social, psychological, emotional, political and spiritual.
Tutoring and School Involvement
The program coordinators and mentors check on initiate's grades at the end of each marking period and provide appropriate assistance to help the initiate to get passing grades in every subject. The mentor (and sometimes the psychologist) will visit the school with the parents to check on the initiates programs.
Camping Trip
This experience occurs at the close of the program. It consists of taking the initiates camping as a way of bringing many of their experiences together. They are introduced to survival skills as well as new experiences that challenge them physically and intellectually.
Graduation Ceremony
This activity symbolizes the accomplishment of several tasks that demonstrate their readiness to begin their journey into manhood/womanhood. The occasion is festive with music, song, dance, drumming, food and ceremony. It is African centered with dress and custom. Both the boy and parents address the community during the ceremony to share their thoughts about their aspirations for the future. Community guests also give words of encouragement and inspiration to the young graduate.