Showing posts with label National Compadres Network. Show all posts
Showing posts with label National Compadres Network. Show all posts

Friday, December 20, 2013

A Memorable Year, Thank you

Dear Friends, Supporters and Families,


The National Compadres Network (NCN) ends the year hitting a high note. We recognize how the organization grows with the insight of elders that have been supportive since its inception. We also acknowledge your partnership as crucial in facilitating what we do. THANK YOU. 

Maestro Jerry Tello continues to impact communities throughout the country in a profound manner. He consitently reminds us that our healing and development will come from individual healing and inter-connectedness. These teachings, remain the basis of our work as we work to re-connect the elders, adults, and young people. The growing invitations to support local and national efforts, such as La Cultura Cura (Transformation Healing) philosophy,  extends within organizations, communities, and systems throughout the nation.

Reflecting on the past year, we remain very grateful for the guidance and support of so many elders, but we will especially miss the presence of Maestro José Montoya. His teachings, poetic verses, music, and humor will live on but his voice will leave a noticeable void. NCN is eternally grateful for his support; we thank his familia for sharing him with us throughout the years. ¡Un million de gracias!

There are many people who make NCN such a promising organization. I would like to take this moment to thank the team for their hard work and sacrifices. We will highlight members of our staff and partners in our 2014 newsletters so that you too can see who these people are, and what talents each contribute to make NCN a thriving and growing organization.
As the year closes, we would like to extend our collective best wishes to all. We hope the holidays and the celebrations of the new year brings you, and all those who surround you, happiness and prosperity in amounts unimagined.

                                
Hector Sanchez FloresCon respeto siempre, su servidor,
 
Héctor Sánchez-Flores
Executive Director, National Compadres Network

Monday, April 8, 2013

Building up the Joven Noble (Noble Youth) in Maryland

Building Up the Joven Noble in Maryland

Joven Noble training was provided to three major components of Montgomery County's Positive Youth Development Initiative that provides prevention and intervention services to high risk and gang involved youth. The three programs that participated in the training were the following:  

  • The Department of Health and Human Services 

  • Street Outreach Network that engages and provides services to gang involved youth throughout the county.

  • These services are intended to help gang involved youth heal from a life of violence, as well as intervene in cycles of violence that the youth are exposed to.  
  •  The Montgomery County Department of Recreation Sports Academy Program that works in school settings to engage high risk youth in positive youth development programming that focuses on sports programs, but also encompasses academic enrichment, and life skills.

  •  Lastly, the Crossroads and Up County Youth Opportunity Centers managed by Identity Inc., that provides a wide array of healing services to adjudicated and gang involved youth in the county.
Those services include: case management, mental health services, gender specific positive youth development youth groups, leadership development, job development, parental supports, recreational services, and tattoo removal services. The Joven Noble training was sponsored by these three agencies. All three programs stand committed to be a part of the National Compadre Network's mission of addressing the needs of youth of color and look forward to a long term relationship. We especially want to thank Jerry Tello for providing such an amazing, and sacred training as we move forward to implement the strategies taught from the training. 

This training represents a part of the Healing Generations project under NCN's National Boys and Men of Color Network.


-Luis Cardona
Regional representative for NCN and a nationally recognized expert in violence intervention and prevention services. was also provided as part of the Healing Generations project under NCN's National Boys and Men of Color Network.