USC Rites of Sisterhood youth mentoring program

Community Service*Leadership*Sisterhood*Self-Determination*Self-Responsibility*Self Discovery*

Our Mission

Rites of Sisterhood (ROS) is an organization of college and professional women dedicated to fostering the social, emotional, spiritual, and cognitive growth of young adolescent women through defining the essence of sisterhood.

Using self-determination, self-responsibility, and self-discovery as our three core principles, ROS strives to strengthen the University of Southern California’s surrounding community by guiding young women of color through the uncertain years of adolescence.

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Fun Facts About ROS:

* Rites of Sisterhood was founded during the 1997-1998 academic school year on the campus of USC

* Red and Black are the official colors of ROS

* ROS is a multicultural youth mentoring program that seeks to empower teenage girls through mentoring

* Our motto is “Sisterhood is Colorblind”

Interested in joining Rites of Sisterhood?

Please e-mail us at ros@usc.edu

to find out how you can get involved in the community!

Contact Us

E-mail: ros@usc.edu

Fax: (213) 740-3298

Mailing Address:

Rites of Sisterhood

3601 Trousdale Parkway

Student Union 415

Los Angeles, CA 90089-4899

Website:

www-scf.usc.edu/~ros

Myspace Page: www.myspace.com/uscros

Thank you for visiting the Rites of Sisterhood Event Calendar! This calendar is designed to provide you with all the information for Rites of Sisterhood’s events and Saturday Mentoring Sessions for the Fall 2007 Semester. ROS seeks to hold events that will enrich both the USC campus community as well as the community we serve, South Los Angeles. If you have any questions about an event, please e-mail us at ros@usc.edu 

* To get detailed information about an event, please click on the event*

Saturday Session Calendar—Spring 2007

All Saturday Sessions, except for special off-site events, are held on the campus of the University of Southern California from 10 am until 2 pm. Mentees and Mentors should meet weekly at 10 at EVK Dining Hall (Gate # 3 on Figueroa across from the Radisson).

Fall 2006 Semester Rites of Sisterhood Schedule

By: Regina Pritchett, Director of Programming

October 7^th:  This will be our first official session and will serve as an introduction both to the program’s structure and purpose, and also to each other.  We will play games and do activities geared towards respecting individualism, while creating a cohesive group—ROS 2006-2007.

October 14^th: Today’s workshop will be centered around ROS’s first principle of self-discovery. We will also stress the importance of self-definition.  We will explore how we define ourselves, where these definitions come from and how they can change.  Do others define us?  Or do we define ourselves?  What power do we have in deciding who we are and where we are going?  A strong sense of self is critically important in today’s world where we receive conflicting messages of who are supposed to be. Culture, media, peers and many other sources offer their suggestions, but today we will gain the tools to evaluate all of these sources and decide for ourselves …who am I?

October 21^st:  Today we will test our own ideas of strength both physically and mentally in a fun-filled day of USC’s own Ropes Course Challenge.  Self-determination, ROS’ second principle will be the focus of today.  How do react when faced with challenges?  What does this say about who we are?  What challenges do face in our own lives and how do we react to them?  We will use the ropes course as a platform to both identify major problems in our lives, and also develop real-world solutions.

October 28^th:  Today will focus on the third ROS tenant of self-responsibility.  We are all blessed in some ways and thus have a responsibility to others.  We must give back.  How give back may differ depending on our interest.  Today will be a day of community service.  We will spend the day putting ourselves in the shoes of others and hopefully make a contribution to their lives.  In doing so, we help bring meaning and value to our own lives—the benefits are two-fold.

November 4^th: NO SESSION

November 11^th:  Today will be about the future, our vision, our goals.  We will talk about goal setting; short term and long term.  The importance of having foresight and staying focused.  We will also create goals for the ROS class of 2006-2007 end of the year field trip and design measures to help us accomplish this ambitious goal. 

November 18^th:  We will spend today talking about making healthy choices.  There are many external pressures to engage in drug and alcohol use, sexual activity and participate in activities that are not to the benefit of the same futures we laid out for ourselves in sessions prior.  With such high goals laid out for ourselves we will carefully examine how these goals for the future can be impacted by the lifestyle we choose to live today-- either to our benefit or to our detriment.  We will talk about these issues and how to make decisions that keep us safe, healthy and have our positive futures in mind.

December 2^nd:  Today will be a fun day of an introduction to yoga.  Come dressed in gym clothes and with an open mind.  We will be learning some basic yoga positions and the health benefits of practicing yoga.