Bros,
We would like to share this program with all. It a male mentoring program that has been ongoing since 2001 in delta omega chapter , Petersburg, va. This program will fit in with National Social Action Day on 14 NOV 07. please use if it can fit your chapter and start anew if you do not have one.
Bro Conrado B. Morgan, PG 82
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Delta omega chapter
omega psi phi fraternity, inc.
THE MALE PROTÉGÉ Program
P.O. Box 2163
Petersburg, Virginia 23804
September 25, 2006
Dear Parents/Prospective Students:
The Delta Omega Chapter, Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. will host The Male Protégé Program Overview with the Parents/Guardians and Students participating in The Male Protégé Program (TMPP) on October 15, 2006 at Virginia State University, Foster Hall, from 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. The purpose is to meet the parents/guardians and students and provide additional information about the program. Dress for this occasion is Coat and Tie for the participating students.
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The Male Protégé Program Objective & Purpose
Our objective and purpose is to provide a sustained and preventive program that will enrich the lives of young African American males and empower them to develop their true God-given potential. TMPP will inform the Young Male Protégé the importance of: Putting God first in everything; Being an upright man; Being a good father and family man; respecting others; and maintaining the right attitude in all situations. We will provide activities that increase knowledge, skills and abilities for the successful transition from adolescence to adulthood. We will teach Christian values in the area of teamwork, leadership, responsibility and practical life skills.
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Statement of the Problem
African-American males are at risk. The evidence of this is the staggering statistics negatively depicting them as a group of people who have been unsuccessful at navigating through a culture that is predominately white.
America is a capitalistic country primarily controlled by white males. In a capitalistic society, money is an essential element for living a comfortable life. In America, the odds of one living a comfortable life are tremendously increased by successfully matriculating through the educational system.
"Today, education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments...it is a principal instrument in awakening the child to cultural values, in preparing him for later professional training, and in helping him adjust normally to his environment...it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education. Among the many children in America who are at risk and likely to lack success in school-most often because they lack authentic educational opportunities-the African American male student stands alone in terms of the accumulation of negative factors affecting his future.”
“Due to the history of racial discrimination in the United States, according to Jencks & Phillips (1998), African Americans began to doubt their own intellectual ability, began to define academic success as white people's prerogative, and began to discourage their peers, perhaps unconsciously, from emulating white people in academic striving, i.e., from acting white.”
Becoming successful through traditional methods is seen as one leaving his culture and taking on another's culture. Abandoning one's culture is seen as “selling-out. Not wanting to be ostracized by their own race, many African Americans, consciously or unconsciously choose avenues that hinders their successful navigation through society.
African American men need to be trained and provided with specific strategies, so they can effectively model and teach surviving and thriving skills to young black males. If African American men do not model and train young African American males, they will be doomed to a vicious cycle of repeated societal failure. Such damnation adversely affects all of mankind.
African American men must not allow young black males to become paralyzed within the American culture – paralyzed due to negative peer pressure and a lack of understanding of how to be empowered in a capitalistic society. Black men must be trained to provide strategic leadership to young males. Young black males must learn how to thrive using the rules that govern the system where they live and must learn how to make the system work for them.
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The Male Protégé Program Goals
Goals: The Male Protégé Program (TMPP) is an extension of our Mandated Scholarship Program designed to inform young intelligent juniors and seniors in High School about positive male role models in the community. For example: Someone like members of the Chapter, who are providing services that could impact the entire world, (teachers, administrators, engineers, etc.). The community needs to know that role models like us will take time to show parents and their children (Young Males) the right way to approach the challenges of life.
We will:
1. Enrich the lives of young African-American males and help them achieve a sense of God’s true identity as they develop their true God-given potential.
2. Embrace discipleship to Jesus Christ.
3. Train young males in the areas of wealth accumulation & distribution; healthy spiritual, physical, and emotional living; and educational answerability.
4. Promote leadership development, goal setting, decision-making, character building, and relationship building with parents, teachers, peers, extended family, elders, and females.
5. Help young males realize and achieve a level of maturity and awareness that will enable him to function in a society without engaging in self-defeating behavior.
6. Develop strong and sustainable partnerships with the private and public sector, community-based organizations, and educational entities, for the purpose of acquiring the best training opportunities and resources for participants.
7. Help young males master the art of assimilation [understanding and using the dominant culture’s behaviors (When in Rome) without acculturating replacing your culture with the dominant culture.
The Male Protégé Program Behavioral Objectives
African and African-American history, culture, values, attitudes, and feelings
1. Participants will develop an understanding of African and African-American history, culture, values, attitudes, and feelings.
Economics
2. Participants will develop an understanding of cooperative economic systems.
Decision-Making
3. Participants will develop decision-making skills for self-awareness and personal planning.
Leadership
4. Participants will learn leadership skills
Community Services
5. Participants will understand the concept of community services
Government
6. Participants will develop an understanding of government.
Manhood-Womanhood
7. Participants will develop an understanding of manhood and womanhood.
The Art of Debate
8. Participants will engage in a competitive debate.
Effective Communication Skills
9. Participants will learn how to handle peer pressure.
Exercise
10. Participants will learn basic stretching, aligning, strengthening, posture and breathing techniques.
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PROJECT WHEN
In June 2005, Delta Omega Chapter of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. expanded their program to incorporate Project -Wealth, Health, Education, Now (WHEN). Reaching out into the community, they plan to partner with the local churches of The Male Protégé Program (TMPP) participants and plan for the development of a community outreach mentoring program. Delta Omega Chapter’s TMPP Project WHEN and the churches (when approved) Mentoring programs will host bi-monthly mentoring sessions. The sessions will be held at the churches on Saturdays and Foster Hall, VSU on Sundays, from 2:00 p.m. until 4:00 p.m.
The Male Protégé Program Theme
Project WHEN: Wealth, Health, and Education, NOW!
Wealth: Our young males need accurate, clear, and precise strategies for navigating through and working in a capitalistic society. Parents will share their philosophy for prioritizing the family’s financial assets and resources with their participating son.
Net Value - Liabilities = Wealth: When your outgo exceeds your income, your upkeep becomes your downfall.
III John 1:2a - Beloves I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper…
Health: Our young males need guidance as they strive for a healthy Spiritual, physical, and emotional life. Parents will share with their participating son their philosophy for healthy living; Spiritual, physical, and emotional.
III John 1:2b - …and be in health, even as thy soul prosper.
Education: Parents will share their educational philosophy for successful living in a capitalistic society with their participating son. Education should not be looked upon as the mere acquisition of academic subject matter, but as a part of life itself--Dewey, 1902
II Timothy 2:15 - Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
NOW: In America, one’s odds of living a comfortable life is tremendously increased by successfully matriculating through the educational system. The odds of one living a comfortable life in America is tremendously increased by successfully matriculating through the educational system. Parents will assist the church and community in addressing the crisis plaguing the lack of positive black-male role models and commit to sustain participation in The Male Protégé Program.
I Samuel 12:16 - Now therefore stand and see this great thing, which the Lord will do before your eyes.
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Parents' Promise to Their Sons
We Will:
Live it,
hold you to it,
reward you when you follow it, and
discipline you when you don't.
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The Male Protégé Program Oath
· I am a member of the royal priesthood of God. I have a choice of how I will live my life. I choose obedience to God. I believe that God is equipping me to fulfill His purpose in my life. I believe that through faith, God can take the stuff of my life and make something good of it.
· By faith, I have access to God through Jesus Christ. I have the privilege of being in the very presence of God. By faith, I refuse to feel abandoned, excluded, or accept being treated as a stepchild or an outcast. I refuse to be defined by the smallness and limited thing of man.
· I am empowered by Jesus Christ to overcome and defeat Satan. I claim the power that is within my reach. I am somebody. I worship a God who empowers me to be great in His service. I will focus on the road ahead.
· By faith, I am able to stand, walk upright and proclaim that I am a child of the living God. I proclaim victory over all that will try and defeat me. In God’s Glory I will triumph.
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I Am A Gentleman
I am a gentleman everyday:
Though l am not rich, I can’t be bought.
I can succeed as well as the next person.
It takes more than a degree
It takes more than looks
It takes more than wealth
It takes responsibility, determination,
Hard work and faith.
I am a gentleman with intelligence,
integrity and willpower.
I must know and cherish my history
My Father and my God,
For they are my root to my blossoming tree.
~ Anonymous
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The Male Protégé Program Pledge
· I pledge to work to develop myself physically, mentally and spiritually so as to be a service to family, people, and myself.
· I pledge to keep myself clean in body, mind, and speech.
· I pledge to serve as a positive example, to respect myself, and others.
· I pledge to honor and respect the women and the elders in my community.
· I pledge to live by the principle of manhood, scholarship, perseverance and uplift.
· I pledge to speak out and act against what is wrong.
· I pledge to study so I may learn and learn so I may teach.
· I pledge not to smoke, drink, or take drugs.
Each Protégé is expected to live by the TMPP Oath; I Am a Gentleman Poem, and The Male Protégé Program Pledge.
Selection Criteria/Process: The prospective participant will be a high school junior or senior from high schools in the tri-cities area and surrounding counties of Chesterfield, Dinwiddie, and Prince George, recommended by their School Guidance Counselor or a Brother of Delta Omega Chapter, Omega Psi Phi Fraternity. Prospective participants will be interviewed informally by their Guidance Counselor or the Brother making the recommendation to determine whether class schedule and extra-curricular activities affords him an opportunity to participate in the program. The prospective participant should have above average grades (Preferably, B and above, but may be a C for the yearly average), should be a member of different organizations in a leadership role, and attend church. They must also have a goal to attend a College/University/Technical school upon graduation.
Student Responsibilities: The students participating in the program are expected to attend all scheduled activities (excuses are granted on a case-by-case basis). The students participating in the program are responsible for raising a minimum of $200.00 in revenue. (This can be achieved by selling or purchasing (5) Banquet Tickets at $20 each = $100.00) and purchasing or receiving a Full-Page Advertisement ($100.00) from a Business or Individual on their behalf) for the Souvenir Program Booklet. This can be a combination of Ads or one single Ad. Students will receive Banquet Tickets, 3 are complimentary to the students for parents/guardians.
Committee Responsibilities: The committee is responsible for providing the parents and students a detail overview of what The Male Protégé Program (TMPP) is about. The committee members will meet (as a minimum) monthly or as needed to ensure that the scheduled programs and activities for the students have the resources necessary to support them. The overall goal is to conduct a program that provides services that are essential to the well being of aspiring young men who want to pursue higher education through encouragement and support in the form of Friendship, Mentorship, and Scholarship. Create opportunities for the participants to engage in community service activities in their local neighborhoods. Serve as a role model by implementing the cardinal principles of Manhood, Scholarship, Perseverance, and Uplift.
Committee Members
emetrius Brooks, Chairman, Dennis Calloway, James R. Clark, Sr., Ezekiel Dennison, Jr., Basileus, Ex-Officio, Calvin D. Farr, Co-Chairman, Hermanze E. Fauntleroy, Jr., Benjamin Ford, Morris Jones, Willis C. McCombs, Joseph C. McKinney, Clarence McNeill, DeAndrea Neal, Samuel Northington, Jr., Vice-Basileus, Ex-Officio, Michael Shackleford, Joseph Shaw, Jr., Walter Smith, and Eric Wilborn.
We are very excited about our upcoming program. This is our seventh year in existence and we have previously recognized several students from Hopewell, Matoaca, Maggie L. Walker Governor’s School, Meadowbrook, Petersburg, Prince George, and Thomas Dale High Schools during their Senior Honors programs with participatory and monetary awards. The volunteers we have serving as mentors have wide ranging backgrounds and bring forth a wealth of knowledge to our program. All are high achievers within their profession. They have pledged their time and resources to support this mentorship program.
The core part of this program is Mentorship. Please contact your school coordinator for additional information or transportation coordination. Please inform your Guidance Counselor or School Coordinator before September 29, 2006 whether you will attend. We look forward to your participation!
The Points of Contact for this information is Brother Demetrius Brooks, 804-691-6964, Calvin D. Farr, 804-748-0699, or Benjamin Ford, 804-458-0085.
Sincerely Yours,
Ezekiel “Zeke” Dennison, Jr.
Basileus
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