Final Summer Service Partnership Presentations Today

Today is the day! Final Summer Service Partnership Presentations will take place this afternoon. Team Woodlawn, Team Greater Grand Crossing and Team South Chicago will be presenting at the Gary Comer Youth Center at 1:00. We have been working hard all week to polish our final presentations, and are excited to share our hard work with the entire SSP community.

All Summer Service Partnership friends, supporters and families are welcome to attend. Presentations will take place between 1:00 and 3:00 p.m. in one of the exhibition rooms at the center. Light refreshments will be served. Just tell the person at the front desk of the GCYC that you are with the University of Chicago Summer Service Partnership, and you will be directed to the correct location.

Who: All Summer Service Partnership friends, families and supporters are welcome to attend

What: Summer Service Partnership Final Presentations

Where: The Gary Comer Youth Center, 7200 S. Ingleside

When: 1:00-3:00 p.m.

Why: To celebrate and share our efforts during SSP

Please join us if you are able!

Wellness Fair at the Back to School Jam

Iysha's Nutrition Corner Game

Brittany hoppin' over fences

Taniqua assisting with stress balls

Nutrition table

Relieving stress on the job, Iysha style

Sam and I doing Yoga with the little ones

Decorating canvas bags

Team Greater Grand Crossing

Group picture

Wellness Fair this Saturday!

Today we are working hard to prepare our Wellness Fair. We have been painting signs, creating give-aways, and generally getting our act together.

The Wellness Fair will take place tomorrow, August 7 in Hoard Park as part of the Revere CARE Back-to-School Fair. The park is located directly across from Revere Elementary at 7200 South Dobson. The entire Back-to-School Fair will take place from 10:00 to 4:00, but our booths will be open between 10:00 and 2:00.

Our booths address nutrition and stress. The stress booth will teach ways to manage stress, signs of stress, and how stress impacts your body. Tomorrow we are going to teach people healthy ways to manage stress-- we have a masseuse and two yoga teachers coming to the park to give demonstrations! We also made aromatherapy bath bombs to give away, and will have a make-your-own stress ball station.

At the nutrition booth we will have the 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 Game, which teaches kids easy daily steps for better health. We will also have canvas bags and aprons to decorate (we already wrote slogans about healthy eating on them).

We also have two pamphlets to pass out-- one addresses healthy eating and one addresses stress. We are excited to share what we have learned this summer with the larger Grand Crossing community!

Please come visit us tomorrow between 10:00 and 2:00. All ages are welcome. It's going to be a great event!

Teen Expo Tonight!

We are excited to participate in the Gary Comer Youth Center's Teen Employment Showcase this evening (Wednesday, August 4). The Teen Expo is taking place tonight from 6:30 to 8:o0 in the Gary Comer Youth Center Cafe. Bennie, Iysha and Taniqua will be presenting about their experiences in SSP. The other teen groups at the center, including the Green Teens and Leaps and Bounds, will be sharing what they have been working on this summer.

We put together a PowerPoint presentation about what we have been doing during SSP. The teens have been practicing (and practicing, and practicing) their presentation this morning. It has been great for us to practice our presentation skills because we will be presenting again next week. It has been a lot of work, but our presentation is going to be quite polished by this evening.

We are excited to share our SSP experiences with the larger Gary Comer Youth Center community! Everyone is welcome to attend.