Orient of Michigan Deputy SGIG Christopher Buck, 33° Valley of Detroit What follows is a brief outline of the activity of your USC Cradle to College Mentoring Program. • June 19, 2025 – Mentee Avery Davis-Brooks sung Black National Anthem at Minor League baseball game. This event was at Jimmy John ’ s Playfield. • June 24, 2025 – Our National Chairman Horace Jackson and I attended the DPSCD Partnership Luncheon at Breithaupt Culinary Academy. • June 30, 2025 – DPSCD Partnership Renewal for 2025- 2026; this partnership allows continued mentoring opportunities for evidence-based programming to impact the daily lives of those in our school district & and its communities. • July 8, 2025 – Summer Internship Employment program. 256 students aged 14-21 took part in this employment program opportunity, with 25 advanced scholars selected for a more in-depth dive into the Life Skills portion and placement. Allocated Federal funding was used to compensate the students for the 6-week work program. They worked at their assigned placements for 3 4-hour workdays per week and reported to my office space (virtual or physical) on Thursdays of each week for prevention learning. The stipend was $15.00 per hour. This equates to $1800.00 per student for 6 weeks. The total funds allocated and distributed were $460,800.00. An additional $36,700.00 was allocated distributed for program activities during this period; to include a $500.00 transportation donation from Michigan Council of Deliberation for our 2025 Career and College Tour. • July 8, 2025 – August 15, 2025 – Cradle to College Mentoring Detroit In-State Career & College Tour • July 20, 2025 – Detroit Hoopfest sponsored by Mary Sheffield, Detroit Pistons, & NIKE. NBA Alumni (Jalen Rose & Chris Webber) had a 3-on-3 basketball game during the event. 4 of our mentees were able to take advantage of this giveaway. • August 7-8, 2025 – Attended and participated in the Homegoing services of one of our most staunch mentors GIG Willie J. Butts The Cradle to College Mentoring Program continues to host the Tuesday evening Prevention Radio show 1440
WMKM with GIG Karl E. D ’ Abreu Sr., SP Aurthur Huff, Mentee Jeremiah Greene, and Mentee Dallis Sutton. Activities are also posted to our Facebook page with useful youth and young adult resources and positive messages for family ’ s daily use. The page manager is GIG Karl E. D ’ Abreu Sr. along with various members of our social media community who contribute to its content.
Orient of Washington and Oregon Deputy SGIG Gregory Wraggs, 33° Valleys of Tacoma and Pasco
The Washington/Oregon Cradle to College Program supports School Districts and High Schools which include the Tacoma and Pasco School Districts and the Foss and Pasco High Schools. Cascadian Consistory continues to set the pace with the children in our community. Since summer began, our "Bike for Books" reading program has been on hold. This will resume in late August when school starts again. This is a joint program involving all four local lodges and connected Consistories. Local Pioneer Lodge #39 members who are affiliated with Consistory #75 share the work in obtaining, preparing, and awarding elementary students bicycles for reading books. Because all local elementary schools are involved, all members share in the duty of attending ceremonies to award the bicycles. There have been a couple times in the past when I have reported on my project located in Costa Rica. This project has successfully served more than two hundred students during its eleven years of operation. I am the founder of the organization that supports an English based teaching center in a rural and impoverished area. Our involvement has been a model for serving others. I bring this to your attention to have you consider if having an international program attached to our Orient provides any benefit to you and our Orient. I know my local Kiwanis Club accepted this project nearly nine years ago as one of its various programs endorsed and supported. Having done so, my Kiwanis Club now stands out as a special and unique Club, being one of the very few clubs nationwide that serves its community kids but has the unique distinction of serving needy kids in another country. This makes the Kiwanis Club an international club of distinction. GIG Julius W. Brown Jr. has gotten us involved with the youth with the urban League where we presently read and mentor young adults for 1.5 hours per week.
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