Important Dates

We are anticipating a busy spring, and as such we wanted to touch base with everyone to remind you of the following dates:

March 6^th- 10^th: Spring Break

Wednesday March 15^th: Mid-Semester Meetings 

Wednesday March 22^nd & Thursday March 23^rd: Dream Symposium

Wednesday March 29^th:  Mid-Semester Meetings

Wednesday April 5^th through Friday April 7^th: Millersville Symposium

Student of the Month-January

We are proud to announce that our student of the month for January is 

Vittoria Christie-Campolongo!!

This is Tory's first year in the Career Studies program at Penn State Harrisburg.  Anyone that knows Tory knows that she is a ball of positive energy and brings a smile to everyone's face.  

Tory is a busy young lady!! She is currently enrolled in a yoga class on campus and is completing a practicum opportunity at the copying center on campus.  Tory is also a Blog write for the D.R.E.A.M. Partnership where she will be blogging about her experience here on campus and writing about other subjects as well.  Tory is also currently employed at the Salvation Army.

Tory has been a fantastic addition to our program this year.  She is always willing to lend a hand to a fellow classmate or offer a word of encouragement.  All of the Peer Mentors that work with her comment that she makes their days better and they look forward to when they will see her again.

Tory, we are so proud of all that you have accomplished thus far at Penn State.  We cannot wait to see where your adventure in life takes you once you have accomplished all your goals here at Penn State. One thing is for sure, you will be making people smile no matter where you go in life!!

 Tory at her practicum opportunity at the copying center.  

Tory's practicum supervisor Linda is always happy to see her on a Tuesday or Thursday morning!

 Tory receiving her completion certificate for the "My Voice Matters"  Self-Determination workshop from Dr. Rhen.

 Tory completing one of her at home assignments to take steps towards independent living and she chose to cook a meal for year family.  Way to go Tory!!!

Spring Semester

The Spring semester is off to a fantastic start!! We are so busy here on campus we can barely find time to blog anymore.  This is a great problem to have.

We currently have seven student enrolled in our program and all seven students are enrolled in a Penn State academic class that they auditing.  The students report back that they are loving their classes and enjoying meeting new people.  Some of the students have peer mentors accompanying them to class and others are attending on their own.  Some of the classes they students are enrolled in include:  Badminton, Yoga, Adolescent Development, Interpretations of Humanities, Pop Culture and Folk Life, Women & Gender Studies, and Earth II.

In addition to their academic classes the students are participating in practicum opportunities both on and off campus.  You can find our students gaining tons of on the job training with support from our job coaches at Keystone Human services at the CUB on campus, the copying center, in the marketing department, and at the West Shore Country Club just to name a few.

As always the students are also enjoying all aspects of campus life.  They have had many samples of free ice cream, made stuffed animals at the Build a Stuffy event, and even decorated cakes for Valentine's Day.  Of course the students still find time to catch a game or two of air hockey every now and then.

We continue to be incredibly proud of our hardworking students.  The growth, maturity and steps towards independence are extremely impressive.  Keep up the hard work everyone!!

Week Eleven

This week on campus we finished our last week of My Voice Matters on Tuesday.  The students and the peer mentors had to perform role play scenarios demonstrating their understanding of self-determination.  They did a great job not only with their skits but also with the entire three week training as a whole.  Thank you to Grace Alfiero for imparting self-determination wisdom on us.

On Wednesday, the students had a chance to ride in a peddle car/dune buggy around campus, but they had to wear beer googles as they were driving.  This distorted their visual perceptions to allow the students to see how dangerous it is to drink and drive. It was a fun event with a serious message.

Finally, on Thursday we had some visitors to campus from Lycoming county.  They came to see what the program was all about and also to tour the campus.  Our one student and peer mentor served as campus tour guides and showed our visitors all around the campus.  The students also had the chance to enjoy a traditional American Thanksgiving dinner on campus today.

We wish all students and their families a very safe and Happy Thanksgiving.