At the beginning of my summer with Dent Education , I was assigned the role of “ fellow .” While going through two weeks of staff onboarding helped me feel more connected to the Dent community , at the end of it I still felt uncertain about what my role as a fellow meant . Was I an assistant to coaches or to my site supporter ? Would I be working on administrative tasks , or would my job be more studentcentered ? Once the summer program began , I realized that I was the one in control of deciding what the role would mean for me .
I remember during staff onboarding I had a discussion with my supervisor and site supporter about what I hoped to gain from my internship . I told her , among other things , that I wanted to become more of a self-starter . Now , as I reflect on my summer experiences , I see that the fellow role could not have been a better place for me to work on my self-starting skills . Being a fellow required me to see where Dent staff and students needed help before they had to ask for it . That looked like strategically deciding which sites to go to on which days , creating lists of opening and closing circle ideas for coaches , sending out lunch buddy prompts at the beginning of each week , photographing students and posting their successes on Dent social media , and connecting with students struggling to engage . When it was raised during a meeting that guest speakers had been feeling under-appreciated , I kickstarted a social media campaign to showcase the pursuits and businesses of our Dent speakers and clients .
I ’ ve definitely grown in my ability to problem-solve and create my own action plans . While the professional skills I ’ ve learned at Dent have been invaluable , I think one of my biggest takeaways from working at Dent is understanding how a positive work culture and community is formed . Denters prioritize rest , embrace failure , ask why , and listen deeply to one another . The frequent socials and games grow strong ties between Dent staff and students . Overall , I am so happy to have been welcomed into the Dent community .
Built & maintained relationships with key partners including site hosts , Denter clients & partners for Denter projects , often communicating on behalf of site coaches
Planned and organized a sitespecific showcase with Coaches and Site Supporters
Managed attendance data entry for reporting to YouthWorks and Baltimore ’ s Promise / Summer Funding Collaborative funders
Supported the coordination of transportation for on-site client interviews , pop-up tabling , and field visits
21
BALTIMORE BALTIMORE CENTRAL CITY 29TH HARM
PUBLIC BALTIMORE STREET CHILD REDUCTION
SCHOOLS FIRST COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP AUTHORITY - ENGAGEMENT CENTER
CORNER DENT TEAM EDUCATION COALITION , INC . Intern :: Estelle Sophia Intern Mimi : Avri Aiman : Yeung Frank Park Altaf Meng
Intern
Supervisor : Intern Rebecca : Helen Supervisor : Amanda : Aaron : Harriet : Richardson Nathalie
Baxter Lacey
Kaufman : Monique Smith Werebe Simms
Supervisor Supervisor : Sara : Aija Artes Allen
YOUTH FAMILY AND WELLNESS EDUCATION NON-PROFIT COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT ORGANIZING
What is the 29th Street Community What is BHRC Center ? ? What is the What BCPS is Office Central of
What
Family Baltimore is and Child
Community Partnership First Authority
Engagement ? ? ?
The 29th Street Community Center offers a variety of programs for kids , The Baltimore Baltimore Harm City Public Reduction Schools Coalition What
What
Office ( of BHRC is
is
Family ) Corner
Dent Education is and a community-based Team ?
?
Community Engagement organization adults , and all ages . The mission of the 29th Street Community Center is to implements Dent Education that The Corner and mobilizes mission supports Team promotes of community uses district
Child Olympic-style equity First policies members is by to ,
develop empowering practices boxing for the youth to , and health strengthen under-resourced opportunities
and , strengthen dignity core, and that enable safety families competencies youth of families and to people discover community build by that targeted providing and improve and strengthen partners develop by high-quality academic the war to neighborhoods their engage on performance drugs innate community with and creative schools and anti , schools encourage people sex-worker ; potential mobilizes , by after-school healthy bringing and to policies shape aligns together ; public , we and advocate private active residents , lifestyles for and harm of philanthropic and north , and reduction summer central build resources learning strong as Baltimore a part communities programs within of through a broader identified that the meaningful of engaged movement world promote neighborhoods around community citizens academic for social them . and building
. school communities and high-quality achievement ; helps coordinate enrichment , social and responses programming emotional to the well-being for community all ages , and around parent justice background issues . and . concerns ; and provides ombudsman services for resolving concerns leadership and complaints . .
GOVERNMENT COMMUNITY ORGANIZING AND POLICY
YOUTH AND EDUCATION