Coming up in your wonderful neighborhood

In March we have a couple of actions….

Thursday afternoon starting about 2:30 at Willard Elementary our Moms for a Beautiful 10th Street with LBPD and CD2 will be offering safety tips like….how to use your mobile device for assistance or in an emergency. We want our families to be safe! Want to join in? We will be near the main school entrance and then on 11th Street where families are picking up their children.

March 20th from 4pm-7pm our Parking Lot event is transformed to the BIG heART! Our annual art, artist and ‘fun’raising event. Please come there will be a taco bar and neat Mexican agua frescas! Live music. And of course an art-interaction space…create your own (miniature) skateboard. All proceeds are shared with the artists and the ArtWorksLBC fund.

And speaking of art….we are working with Amy Stock who is helping us exhibit our “All Hands on Deck” at Blackbird Cafe at 3405 Orange. And yes, you can purchase one of the boards! They are amazing! Exhibit will be set up this week – watch for further news!

Update: The RPNA Board has voted to move time, date and place of its longstanding monthly meetings. There are many reasons for this but as always if you’d like to put an item on the agenda please reach to to info@rpna.org. Our meetings are now held 4th Mondays at 4pm at Revive Church.

Thank you Power4Youth

Pictured left to right: Sylvia & Daniela at the Power4Youth Halloween party 2019

For the past 20 years, Power4Youth faithfully served the Long Beach community through the program’s one-on-one mentoring with meeting sites across the community. Power4 Youth served over 500 mentor and mentee pairs, and fostered growth in students’ grades, interpersonal skills, and overall confidence. In December 2019, Power4Youth made the decision to end its programming and operations. Rose Park Neighborhood wants to thank Power4Youth for its long-time partnership and share a success story from Rose Park Resident and Power4Youth mentor, Sylvia Salcedo.

“Daniela and I met through Power4Youth in September 2016. I was assigned as her mentor and she my mentee. Since then, we have built a one-on-one relationship of support, trust, guidance and setting good intentions.  I believe it’s important for teens to have an adult, other than parents, to support them. My goal has always been to help Daniela grow intellectually and interpersonally.  Mentoring has been the catalyst to the self-confidence and esteem she has developed, and has contributed to her positive academic performance.  As a result, she’s very much interested in attending college to pursue a career as a nurse or physical therapist.  Helping her realize her potential has been fulfilling for me. I’m giving back to my community and have learned a lot about myself along the way.  I’m very thankful for Daniela’s trust and look forward to what I hope will be a lifelong friendship. Power4Youth was such a great and much needed program.  We were shocked and saddened to hear that it ended. We did not hesitate on making the decision to continue our mentor/mentee relationship.” – Sylvia Salcedo

Upon their closing, Power4Youth worked with local Mentoring Partners to transition students to other programs, so that the relationships that Power4Youth built continued to be fostered.