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Join our year-round program between 16-20 years old and learn more about history and art while building lasting relationships, meeting artists, visiting museums and participating in galleries! Students in our cohort program will receive mentorship from Compton community members and artists. Students participating in the...

Community's Child is a nondenominational Christian program committed to providing homeless women with infants healthy alternatives to abuse, poverty, addictions, and hopelessness.
The program offers homeless women and their infants a safe, compassionate, yet structured living environments. At Community's Child, women acquire the education, skills training, employment opportunities and support services, necessary to break the patterns associated with homelessness.

Our Vision:

We are committed to offering women and their infants with healthy alternatives by providing safe living environments, training and education to end poverty, neglect, abuse, addictions and hopelessness.

Compton YouthBuild - Chicano/a students only

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Our Goals

1. Increase student academic performance and preparation for post-secondary education.
2. Increase student and their families knowledge of post-secondary education options, preparation, and financing.
3. Increase the high school graduation and post-secondary education enrollment rates.
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Our Mission

We provide education, scholarship and service that are, by design, accessible and transformative. We welcome students who seek academic achievement, personal fulfillment, and preparation for the work of today and tomorrow.

Our Vision

A vital educational and economic resource for the South Bay, CSU Dominguez Hills will be recognized as a top-performing Comprehensive Model Urban University in America. By 2015, we will be known as a campus community and gathering place where:

• Diversity in all its forms is explored, understood, and transformed into knowledge and practice that benefits the world.
• Technology is embraced and leveraged to transcend educational boundaries as we reach out to students, both locally and globally.
• Sustainable environmental, social, and economic practices are a way of life.
• Students from our community who aspire to complete a college degree are provided the pathway and guidance to succeed.
• Faculty and staff across the University are engaged in serving the dynamic needs of the surrounding communities.
• Student life is meaningful and vibrant.
• Our accomplishments and those of our alumni are recognized nationally and internationally.
• Ultimately, our students graduate with an exemplary academic education, a highly respected degree, and a genuine commitment to justice and social responsibility.

Our Core Values

The following core values are fundamental to our success:

• Accountability. We recognize and live up to our responsibility to our students, campus resources and finances, staff, faculty alumni, supporters, and the community at large.
• Collaboration. All segments of the campus community work together to support our vision as well as our students' success.
• Continuous Learning. We strive to continually improve teaching, scholarship and service.
• Rigorous Standards. We identify, implement and support excellence in all our practices.
• Proactive Partnerships. We actively engage with our communities and its members to promote educational opportunities and excellence for our students.
• Respect. We celebrate and respect diversity in all forms.
• Responsiveness. We are here to serve the needs of students, this community and society.

Our Mission

We provide education, scholarship and service that are, by design, accessible and transformative. We welcome students who seek academic achievement, personal fulfillment, and preparation for the work of today and tomorrow.

Our Vision

A vital educational and economic resource for the South Bay, CSU Dominguez Hills will be recognized as a top-performing Comprehensive Model Urban University in America. By 2015, we will be known as a campus community and gathering place where:

• Diversity in all its forms is explored, understood, and transformed into knowledge and practice that benefits the world.
• Technology is embraced and leveraged to transcend educational boundaries as we reach out to students, both locally and globally.
• Sustainable environmental, social, and economic practices are a way of life.
• Students from our community who aspire to complete a college degree are provided the pathway and guidance to succeed.
• Faculty and staff across the University are engaged in serving the dynamic needs of the surrounding communities.
• Student life is meaningful and vibrant.
• Our accomplishments and those of our alumni are recognized nationally and internationally.
• Ultimately, our students graduate with an exemplary academic education, a highly respected degree, and a genuine commitment to justice and social responsibility.

Our Core Values

The following core values are fundamental to our success:

• Accountability. We recognize and live up to our responsibility to our students, campus resources and finances, staff, faculty alumni, supporters, and the community at large.
• Collaboration. All segments of the campus community work together to support our vision as well as our students' success.
• Continuous Learning. We strive to continually improve teaching, scholarship and service.
• Rigorous Standards. We identify, implement and support excellence in all our practices.
• Proactive Partnerships. We actively engage with our communities and its members to promote educational opportunities and excellence for our students.
• Respect. We celebrate and respect diversity in all forms.
• Responsiveness. We are here to serve the needs of students, this community and society.

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Divinity Prophet is a unique, 501(c)(3), nonprofit organization that provides transitional housing and transitional housing supportive services to youth. We take a systematic approach at preparing youth to become self- sufficient, resourceful, educated and employable individuals.

Intern Program

The Dominguez Rancho Adobe Museum offers several internship opportunities. We offer three types of internships. The paid internship program is highly competitive and preference is given to graduate students and highly-qualified juniors and seniors in undergraduate programs. The class credit internships are offered to all college students. We also offer service learning hours for colleges that have Service Learning requirements and programs. Preference is given to sophomores, juniors, and seniors within one semester of graduation, and graduate students. For eligibility requirements and an intern application, please call the museum at (310) 603-0088.

Programs include:

Arts and Education Program

This program provides students first-hand professional experiences working in a museum creating public programming, educational materials for children, and creating art projects for youth. Interns will have the opportunity to mix and match different aspects of the arts and education program so the internship fits their needs. Different internships will focus on writing school tours for 3rd and 4th graders that incorporate the respective curriculums, assisting with research for the Air Meet centennial programming, or creating educational development plans for each of the Adobe rooms. Interns will develop and execute curriculum and educational materials as well as help plan, implement, and evaluate youth educational programs.

In addition to youth programs and activities, the museum sponsors a variety of special community programs, lectures, films, concerts, workshops, classes, and exhibits for people of all ages. For these programs and events, interns will be asked to help plan and implement specific activities, particularly with respect to content and curriculum development, and analysis and evaluation.

Media and Communication Program

This program provides students first-hand experience in the field of communications, including advertising, public relations, photography, graphic design, and electronic media. Interns will have the opportunity to mix and match different aspects of the media and communication program, so the internship fits their needs. Interns will create marketing and advertising campaigns for the museum and its program to assist with spreading community awareness working with newspapers, magazines, and radio stations to enhance the museum’s public relations efforts. Graphic design and web design and management are two areas in which the interns will work creating and designing the printed collateral for the museum. Interns will also work on the museum’s website since it is a vital avenue of communication for the museum.

Curatorial and Conservation Program

This program provides students first-hand experience in research, exhibit management, and conservation. Interns work with the museum staff in a variety of ways including research, exhibit creation, archiving, and conservation. Interns will have the opportunity to mix and match different aspects of the curatorial/conservation program so the internship fits their needs. Interns will conduct research about early California history, the Rancho period, missions and adobes, objects in the museum, and the plants on the Rancho. Interns will also assist with organizing and systematizing collections records & archives, inventorying collections, upgrading and updating archival system, and recording and photographing artifacts and records.

Curatorial interns will assist the museum staff in the creation, management, and display of exhibits in the museum, as well as with traveling exhibits. Interns working on traveling exhibits will be involved in the management of the exhibits and work with other museums that are involved in the traveling exhibits.

Conservation interns assist with the care of the actual objects in the Adobe as well as researching the latest conservation techniques for paper, paintings, artifacts, and plant material.
For more information about the internship program and to receive an application,please fill out following information.

Our promise
to you

• Equip students with skills to better manage and express their emotions and socialize with their peers
• A diverse group of near-peer coaches are trained in SEL based curriculum through physical activities
• Students get active and moving, after a year of pandemic induced rise in obesity
• Maximum flexibility to take on various staff support roles; classroom assistance, tutoring support, lunch recess and more
• A strong partnership with local colleges enables plentiful staffing of coaches from local communities who can foster an ongoing education culture