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Instituto
Latino de Adultos
En
un ministerio único, Hermano Armando García, FSC, y voluntarios
del Instituto Latino de Adultos en Napa traen la misión lasaliana
a los jóvenes por medio de la educación de los padres de
familia. El Instituto Latino de Adultos proporciona a los adultos latinos
de la área de Napa un lugar para asistir en el desarrollo de una
comunidad cultural y religiosa, proporcionando clases y servicios de ningún
costo a los participantes. El Instituto Latino de Adultos ha servido más
que mil adultos desde abrirse en 1998, y el verano pasado celebró
la bendición de su nueva instalación en Napa.
Latino
Adult Institute
In
a unique ministry, Brother Armando Garcia, FSC, and volunteers at the
Latino Adult Institute (LAI) in Napa bring the Lasallian mission to the
young through parent education. LAI provides Latino adults in the Napa
area a place to develop a cultural and religious community, providing
classes and services at no cost to participants. The Latino Adult Institute
has served more than a thousand adults since opening in 1998, and last
summer LAI celebrated the blessing of its new site in Napa.
"[Brother
Armando] Garcia has proven that one person with vision, energy and a sense
of mission can generate support and change the lives of hundreds of people.
Rather than pass up the Herculean task of changing a community that has
been historically resistant to change, Garcia took the bold step of confronting
the status quo."
--The
Napa Valley Register: July 18, 1999
Catholic
Institute for Lasallian Social Action
-- Saint Mary's College of California
At
Saint Mary's College, the District is providing significant funding for
the first two years of the Catholic Institute for Lasallian Social Action
(CILSA), which opened in September 1999. CILSA engages students, staff,
and faculty with members of the broader community who are in need, thereby
enabling the entire College community to participate in activities that
will inspire lifelong commitments to service and a deeper understanding
of social justice issues. Program Director Janet Luce joined the world
of Lasallian education from the Haas Center for Public Service at Stanford
University. CILSA has made its own the motto familiar to Lasallian institutions
around the world -- Enter to Learn, Leave to Serve.
North
Portland
District
history was made on February 10, 2000, as a newly appointed board of trustees
first met formally to oversee the establishment of a new coeducational
Lasallian high school in North Portland, Oregon -- the first Catholic
high school in the area since North Catholic High burned in 1970. "The
school will bring private [Catholic] education into a district where public
schools have struggled to make the grade...and whose dropout rates are
[among] the highest in the city," reported Oregon's Catholic Sentinel
following a December press conference announcing the opening of the new
school. The school marks the Brothers' return to Portland for the first
time since Christian Brothers Business College (1908) closed in 1922.
The District founded La Salle High School in nearby Milwaukie in 1966.
At the press conference, Auxiliary Visitor Brother Stanislaus Campbell,
FSC, emphasized that the District's mission "is to expand the educational
opportunities available." Portland Archbishop John Vlazny said the
school, which will serve low-income families in greatest need, "will
provide values-based education that gives students a future full of hope."
San
Miguel School Project
The
Tenderloin district is an area of San Francisco hard hit by poverty, homelessness,
and crime. Hope is hard to come by, for young people in particular. The
De La Salle Christian Brothers and Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent
de Paul, who together conduct Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory in San
Francisco, plan to provide young people in the Tenderloin with a safe
and nurturing place in a new coeducational middle school serving grades
6-8, scheduled to open in fall 2001. The school will open for the first
class of 6th graders at the former Saint Boniface School site at the parish
of the same name, headquarters to numerous Catholic social outreach programs,
including St. Anthony's Dining Room.
Modeled
after three San Miguel schools conducted by the Brothers in the East and
Midwest, the new school "will provide an intensive, dynamic, and
value-oriented Catholic education for inner-city youth who are being lost
for a lack of educational opportunity," says Jim Day, project coordinator.
"The goal of the school is to bridge the educational deficits of
low-income students who are far below grade level in basic skills, so
that in three years' time they can comfortably compete in the most demanding
high school programs in San Francisco."
San
Francisco Archbishop William Levada praised the new school as offering
"great promise for inner-city children." The North Portland
and Tenderloin schools will be operated in a 'spirit of gratuity', making
Lasallian education available particularly to those who are underserved
and economically disadvantaged.
Learn
more about these and other District educational works on the District
of San Francisco Web site at www.delasalle.org. A chronology of Brothers'
institutions in the District since its founding in 1868 is available in
the 'History of the District of San Francisco' on the site.
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