A strategy for valuing our children

A strategy for valuing our children

• A strategy for valuing our children

• A strategy for positive youth development

• A program of supplementary education

• A strategy that helps youth acquire different types of capital that they need for success

• A strategy that’s biblically based

“… where there is no vision, the people perish…”

• “… where there is no vision, the people perish…”

…because not everyone brings to school /college the same types of “capital” [Bourdieu(1986), Gordon (1989)]

• …because not everyone brings to school /college the same types of “capital” [Bourdieu(1986), Gordon (1989)]

• Although they may attend the same schools, students from different communities may perform differently according to the types of capital they bring to school.

Human capital –

• Human capital –

• Social capital –

• Health capital –

Financial capital

• Financial capital

Cultural capital –

• Cultural capital –

• Educational capital –

• Personal capital –

Faith in the possibility of a successful future

• Faith in the possibility of a successful future

• Resiliency in the face of academic and social challenges and setbacks

• Strong motivation to master his/her studies

• Spiritual and cultural moorings

• Emotional and physical health

Your church family can help support you and your child, by providing some of the kinds of capital he or she needs to be successful in school, college, & adulthood.

• Your church family can help support you and your child, by providing some of the kinds of capital he or she needs to be successful in school, college, & adulthood.

• The process will work best if there is a partnership between parent, student, and church

Is your church committed to supporting you and your child in key ways?

• Is your church committed to supporting you and your child in key ways?

• Spiritual growth and development

• Academic support

• Supplementary education – rites of passage

• College prep timeline and coaching

Challenges to our family-church partnership:

• Challenges to our family-church partnership:

• Street gangs

• pregnancy

• prison

• drug, alcohol abuse

• sexual promiscuity

• compulsive behaviors

Orita is an opportunity to make an even better life for our youth than we have experienced.

• Orita is an opportunity to make an even better life for our youth than we have experienced.

• The Orita process helps prepare participants so that their lives will make a difference in the world.

• Orita provides a positive conversation, an alternative to the negative one they often engage in and hear about themselves.

Create a course of study, designed and led by parents and guardians, to make youth aware of the responsibilities of adulthood and expose them to their religious and family heritage.

• Create a course of study, designed and led by parents and guardians, to make youth aware of the responsibilities of adulthood and expose them to their religious and family heritage.

• Conclude with a final recognition ceremony that formally acknowledges them before a community.

Launch

• Launch

• Study

• Physical Challenge

• Honor

• Celebrate

• unity of family

• self determination

• collective work, responsibility

• cooperative economics

• sense of purpose

• creativity

• faith

Phase 1: Create the vision

• Phase 1: Create the vision

• Phase 2: Plan strategy

• Phase 3: develop tasks

• Phase 4: execute and monitor

• Phase 5: Finish

www.oritaritesofpassage.org

• www.oritaritesofpassage.org

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