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Council For Unity
Riverhead Long Island New York  
Next Meeting Date:    Sept. 18, 2008 at 7pm  /Council for Unity meeting @ the Riverhead Free Library in the meeting room down stairs.  No refreshments will be served.
 

About Our Organization

Council for Unity, a national non-profit organization founded in 1975, has a history of successfully promoting inter-group relations and reducing violence in schools and communities.  By implementing school-based and after-school programs in leadership development mentoring, career, college guidance and gang prevention, the Council fulfills its' mission of empowering individuals and groups with the skills necessary to promote unity, safety and achievement.


Council for Unity working proactively against gangs

Members of the Council for Unity at RHS work together to keep RHS a peaceful learning environment for all of the school’s students, to erase lines of division among its student body, to promote tolerance and to strive for unity. This year, in addition to the Council for Unity Club, which meets as an after school club, RHS also offers a History/English elective, which follows the national curriculum written for the Council.

Council for Unity is an anti-gang, violence-prevention program. Riverhead High School is trying to create a “positive gang” among students that is family-oriented. The pillars of Council for Unity are best described by the acronym F.U.S.E., which stands for Family, Unity, Self-Esteem, and Empowerment. Council classes study lessons from history: confronting racism, bigotry, and violence.

New members in the Council for Unity Club are inducted in June, after completing the curriculum. They are working together to keep our schools safe from gangs.

RHS principal Jim McCaffrey sees safety as a number one concern. One way of achieving that goal is through the Council for Unity, which strives to keep the high school a safe haven.

The Council also has instituted a Council Mentors program. Council members are partnered with students, who may be having some difficulties academically, socially or emotionally. The mentors provide friendship and advice, and make recommendations if faculty intervention is needed.

“I like Council because it brings all the students together without looking at only our ethnic backgrounds,” shares Quadre, the Council President.

Also see: Council for Unity Expands to the Jail
Quadre Mims wins 2006 Suffolk County Anti-Bias Award
Council for Unity 2003-04
National Council For Unity

see Riverhead Schools website for Council 
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* 94% of participants graduate from high school
* 96% of those attend college
* 70% of participating school principals reported a decrease in violent crime in their schools
* 100 % of participants reported that Council for Unity has had a positive impact on their lives.




 

Our organization is designed to help our youth today in a positive way to understand that they are a strong part of our community that that violence is not the way to go.

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