Hope Partnership for Education is a co-sponsored ministry of the Society of the Holy Child Jesus.<\/em><\/p>\n Pre-Covid, the Graduate Support Lounge would be full of students completing assignments, applying to college, bonding with old friends, giving middle schoolers advice, receiving mental health guidance, or simply taking a nap in a safe space.\u00a0But we have come to realize Covid has given us an opportunity that is our very own \u201csilver lining\u201d to this unusual time.\u00a0In an effort to meet local needs, we partnered with a local organization,\u00a0Ones Up,\u00a0to provide a fellowship for ten graduates.<\/p>\n The young people participating are members of the first-ever Philadelphia Community Action Team, working with other teams across the nation to address issues that affect underserved youth.\u00a0Since June, our graduates have met to learn about civic and community engagement and put these teachings into action.\u00a0As of last week, our alumni successfully completed 30,000 phone calls and 26,000 text messages to community members on voter registration.<\/p>\n As the Director of the Graduate Support Program, when I think about the vision of Hope that was created so many years ago, I reflect about how much Hope has grown. I think about how much Graduate Support has grown.\u00a0I think about how much I have grown.\u00a0The relationships that I have built over the years with our graduates, their families, and our North Philadelphia community at large, have taught me invaluable lessons. Lessons that cannot be taught in the classroom, but merely felt in the spirit.\u00a0Lessons about growth.\u00a0Lessons about the definition of success.\u00a0Lessons around trauma.\u00a0Lessons about love.\u00a0Lessons about resilience.\u00a0Most of all, lessons about Hope.\u00a0We are well named, indeed! — Brittany Holiday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":385,"featured_media":1148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19],"class_list":["post-115447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","tag-ministry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shcj.org\/american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shcj.org\/american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shcj.org\/american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shcj.org\/american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/385"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shcj.org\/american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shcj.org\/american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shcj.org\/american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shcj.org\/american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shcj.org\/american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shcj.org\/american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/www.shcj.org\/american\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/12\/Picture11420-scaled-e1607617834454.jpg\")
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