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Hopeworks News: July 2006
Hopeworks Hires 20 youth for summer jobs
 In GIS, Web, and Hope Through School, 20 youth have been employed. 15 youth have also entered training in Hope Through School. Here are some of the things going on this summer:
• GIS youth are working on a tree survey of North Camden, funded through a grant from the EPA and Daniellie Foundation
• Youth in Web production continue to work on client projects as well as design a summer program page for the Hopeworks web site
• Hope Through School youth are working on web training, typing and word processing skills. Every day they make their points they are then eligible to be entered into the weekly rafffle- last week Maveth Jimenez won two tickets to the movies!
• All youth attend Literacy to improve their math, reading, and writing skills and to prepare themselves for the upcoming school year
• Each youth also attends Formation, where they are working toward creating a personal vision. Through weekly meetings, they set goals for themselves, and action plans on how to attain these goals. Good things happening here at Hopeworks this summer!
Symantec Days
Symantec Days will be held August the 23rd and 24th. As in past years, we will be having a technology scavenger hunt, attending the Riversharks game, holding a community technology training and visiting the corporate offices of Symantec. It's sure to be a great time!
 Hopeworks Trainees Graduate
Angel Rodriguez and Jordan Peters just graduated from Penn Tech High School! Angel will be attending Savannah School of Art and Design in the fall to study video game design, and Jordan will be attending Camden County College. Adriana Castro, Armando Martinez, Aneliz Felix, Falisa Leyba, Sueny Vela, Angel Diaz, Joseph Caraballo, and Francis Ayala all graduated from Holy Name School and will be attending the following high schools: St. Joseph's Prep, Hallahan, Camden Catholic, and Camden Charter. Congratulations to all of our graduates, and good luck next year!
Save This Date!
The 2nd Annual Hopeworks Celebration of Accomplishments will be held on Saturday, October 7, at the Marian House, Cherry Hill, NJ starting at 6:30pm. Come and enjoy an evening of music, dinner, wine and friends of Hopeworks. Beat the Crowd, and Reserve a table for 8! Invitations coming soon! Won't you be a sponsor? Interested? Contact jhutchhbs@aol.com now!
 Hopeworks goes to the Mets Game and meets Jon Stewart
Thanks to the generosity of Judge Maryanne Trump-Barry, Father Jeff, Tarren Anderson, Mario Arriola and Ed Figueroa attended a Mets game. The highlight of the trip (besides the Mets winning) was that Father Jeff and Ed met Jon Stewart and it is reported that Mr. Stewart asked Father Jeff for some new material for the Daily Show! Stay tuned!
New Video Program Beginning at Hopeworks
A team from Hopeworks is joining with youth from Washington DC to use digital cameras and camcorders to capture the spirit of CTC Net at this year's convention. Staff members Sean Dougherety and Ed Figueroa will work with Dallion Wiggins, Sabrina Gomez, Charlie Gillard, Shakira McDonald and Steven Barrientos to put together several short videos including one that will be shown to the entire convention at the closing luncheon. Video training has started this week to prepare the Hopeworks crew for their assignment. It should be a great experience for everyone involved!
Fun in the Sun a Big Success!
Thank you to all who participated in the Fun in the Sun subscription fundraiser! Because of all of your generosity, Hopeworks was able to create jobs for over 20 youth this summer!
 Hopeworks in the News
Wiggins Park at the Camden Waterfront just went wireless last week. Some youth from Hopeworks went down for the opening press conference and brought tablet computers to test out the new system. Click here to check out the article!
How can you help Hopeworks?
Hopeworks is looking for new e-mail mentors! Anyone can be a mentor. All youth are matched up with mentors and correspond via email twice weekly. If interested, click here for more details.
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Mario Arriola finished his summer course at Camden County College...Francis Ayala and Chris Kendrick finished their personal web sites and entered into production and Francis became the new HTS trainer.
Sean Dougherty recently attended a group relations conference in San Diego. The conference investigated how groups work together and explored how to take up one's role within groups...Jen McCann will be ending her JVC year here at Hopeworks at the beginning of August. She will be moving to Baltimore and serving as one of the national JVC recruiters...Leigh Anne Purnell will be taking a group of youth to the National Liberty Museum in August...Kathleen Deitch will be taking the HTS youth to Rutgers University for a workshop on the Toon Age...look next month for more updates!
Camden Resources Update:
Two new valuable resources have been added to the Camden Resources web site. First, an interactive map showing the location of summer programs within Camden has been added. Secondly, all 2003, 2004, 2005 and partial 2006 murder data has now been published. Camden Resources continues to offer important data to those interested in Camden.
Camden Resources
- CTC Net Conference in Washington, DC
Hopeworks attends ESRI conference in San Diego
Symantec Days at Hopeworks
2nd Annual Hopeworks Celebration of Accomplishments
Tricity-Homeless
Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers
Friends for Life Animal Sanctuary
Camden Diocese
ABC Financial Solutions
Grace Lutheran Church
South Jersey Diving Association
The Upper Room
Bethlehem Lutheran Church
University District of Camden
Camden Youth Drug Court Greater Philadelphia Settlements
Access Academies
Romero Center
The Newburgh Ministry
Hopeworks 'N Camden Summer of Fun 2006
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