Cincy Youth
Cincy Youth
Xavier University Interfaith Initiative Grants
InterfaithCincy, in partnership with The Brueggeman Center for Dialogue at Xavier, is offering Interfaith Community Engagement Grants. Any Faith community or any faith-based youth group that partners with a faith community or youth group from another faith tradition to work on a community engagement project can apply. For Information and application form contact Dr. James Buchanan at the The Brueggeman Center at 513 745-3922 or by email Cummins@xavier.edu.
Teaching Peace in Schools:
A List of some Fantastic Resources and Programs
Starting from supports that help adults practice and model peace to the programs that teach peacebuilding to children, here is a list of resources we find inspirational. Much gratitude for all that you are and all that you do to affirm peace in the world!
Click here: Kay Pranis shares how learning Circle process can give educators a powerful tool for promoting closer relationships in their school community. While there, check out some new amazing offerings by Mindful Schools!
Millenial.org’s Forum is an intimate learning circle in which educators come together within a safe council of peers to learn and practice a critical set of applied developmental science skills that can positively impact teacher well-being, stress-reduction, and classroom quality, which are correlated with increased student engagement and academic performance. Read more…
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Teaching Peace in Schools Lead
Kids4Peace
National Interfaith Youth Summit
Mark your calendars for July 12-16th 2020. Registration with details coming very, very soon.
Middle School Interfaith Day Camp
Mark your calendars again for August 3-7th 2020. Registration with details coming sooner than very. join the fun.
Kids 4Peace has been steadily growing, and have many opportunities available for those youth interested in having a voice, and building peace within our local community.
For questions go to Cincinnati@kids4peace.org. To register, go to K4P.org/summer programs
Ulster Project Cincinnati
“Ulster” is synonymous with Northern Ireland. The Ulster Project works for peace between Catholics and Protestants in a country that has had centuries of tension and violence between the two groups. (See below.) Each July, teens from Enniskillen (County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland) come to Cincinnati and stay with host teens and their families. During the month, the teens and families participate in a variety of activities designed to foster friendship and understanding.
Interfaith Youth Programs
Xavier’s Center for Interfaith and Engaging Difference
At Xavier University, separate campus ministry, peace & justice, and interfaith engagement offices have recently merged into one center that takes a multi-faith approach to spiritual formation, as well as an interfaith approach to engaging difference. With a diverse staff of religious professionals and clergy, led by an Interfaith Program Director, students and staff will spend the 2019-2020 academic year engaging a strategic planning process to launch a new phase on interfaith work among student communities on campus. Read more at https://www.xavier.edu/cfj/interfaith.
Interested in this process? Contact Rabbi Jennifer Lewis.
This process also allowed the center an opportunity to engage faith & race more directly. Interested in these conversations? Contact Rev. Nelson Pierce, Jr.
Ongoing programs, such as our annual Envision leadership retreat, immersion trips, and some service sites, engage religious and identity based differences in reflection and social action. Dorothy Day Immersions is one such program that looks at racial injustice and economic disparities through the lenses of faiths that do justice. These annual trips run the week before school resumes in January with a yearlong formational program. Contact Shannon Hughes for more information. Applications to participate are due a few weeks into each fall semester.
Resources for Students: Contributed by Affordable Colleges Online
Resource Guide for Religious and Spiritual Students
Multiculturalism and Diversity in College
Interfaith Youth Core
‘IFYC offers on-campus engagements to support colleges and universities as they seek to elevate and highlight interfaith cooperation as a campus-wide priority.
Engagement consultations help campuses build environments that support interfaith cooperation, equip campus leaders, cast vision, and set strategic goals. Guiding our work are key leadership practices, which we believe have the highest potential impact for transformational change.
Whether your campus is just beginning to consider interfaith cooperation as a priority or already has an interfaith strategy in place, IFYC can offer an external perspective that will help advance your efforts. We primarily provide value to our campus partners in the following ways:
- IFYC is a catalyst: We use an asset based approach to identify internal resources that will help campus leaders build and sustain interfaith cooperation
- IFYC is a convener: We create spaces for committed administrators, staff, faculty, and students to broaden participation in and deepen commitment toward interfaith cooperation
- IFYC is comprehensive: We draw on an extensive toolkit to help campuses achieve and measure results.’
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