 UNITE Program Description
UNITE is a weekend immersion experience that offers you a chance to travel into Baltimore with a small group of students and staff members to take a closer look at the realities of people who are materially poor and/or experiencing homelessness in our city. - To educate students on issues of hunger and homelessness and related poverty concerns for the materially poor in urban Baltimore and explore related social justice concerns
- To serve people who are living with food insecurity and people who are experiencing homelessness or who were formerly homeless
- To reflect on all that the group experiences in light of various beliefs, disciplines, value systems and/or spiritual perspectives that participants bring to the program
- To build relationships with the men from the Frederick Ozanam House and others they serve during this weekend that will lead to ongoing support
- To foster personal growth by expanding the participants' awareness and break down misconceptions through personal interaction with people living in material poverty
- To introduce through personal experience and direct service the relationship to social justice concerns
- To provide a weekend live-in experience in an urban setting
- To provide education and professional input on issues of hunger, homelessness and material poverty
- To provide hands-on direct service opportunities
- To provide Baltimore community exposure and personal interaction with the men from the Frederick Ozanam Transitional Housing Program
- To provide moments for individual and group reflection to make sense out of their experiences and consider what individual and group responses/actions or commitments can be taken
- Direct service in a meal program
- Educational statistics on material poverty and homelessness
- One-on-one interaction with people who have dealt with or are currently dealing with issues of hunger and homelessness
- Group discussion and reflection activities
- Special opportunity to reflect on experience using Ignatian spirituality
- Opportunity for shared prayer in retreat-style format
- Intentional connections between Catholic Social Teaching and Jesuit Education
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