NAACP, Grace Bible Fellowship to Hold Workshop to Assist African-American Students
Empowered Parents help to make Empowered Kids!
PASSA, which stands for Promoting African-American Student Success and Achievement, is a program that was piloted at Lone Tree Elementary school in Antioch It will now be presented at Grace Bible Fellowship in Antioch, this Friday night and Saturday morning.
Parents and students are invited to attend and hear from school administrators and personnel.
The workshop, presented by both Grace Bible Fellowship and the NAACP East County Branch, “strives to educate and guide parents to become empowered to work as partners with the school system,” according to the promotional flyer.
In addition, it states “In turn, our parents will help promote their African American students to display success and achievement academically, socially, behaviorally and emotionally.
The two-day “mini series” will be held at 7:00 p.m., Friday, April 8 and 9:00 a.m., Saturday, April 9 at Grace Bible Fellowship, 913 Sunset Drive, Antioch, in Suite L.
For more information about the PASSA workshop, call Cheryl White, (925) 522-8186. For more information about Grace Bible Fellowship, visit www.gbfofantioch.org and for the NAACP East County Branch, visit www.naacpeastcounty.org.
This really nice that our AA children not kids( goats) has to address socially,behaiorally,and last but not least emotionally. WoW!! BACK TO OUR BLACK CHURCHES. PUBLIC EDUCATION JUST A HEAD COUNT I THINK THOSE MENTAL ASSEMENTS SHOULD START AT THE ANTIOCH JIM CROW BROARD OF EDUCATION AND THE JIM JONES SCHOOL DISTRICT WHO TRULY DISPLAY THESE SOCAL,EMOTIONAL BEHAVIOR THAT OUR AA CHILDREN HAS TO SUFFER UNDER. THIS IS WHAT THIS DISTRICT GET PAID FOR TO PROVIDE TO ALL BUT WE MUST MEET OUTSIDE. YET THEY ARE THE EDUCATORS. OH PHD’S.