UPS Community Internship Program (CIP) Donaldina Cameron House Fact Sheet
| BEGAN CIP PARTICIPATION: |
2004 |
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| SAN FRANCISCO CIP SITE COORDINATORS: |
Rev. Harry Chuck
Joshua Chuck
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DESCRIPTION:
Founded in 1874, Donaldina Cameron House , a faith-based community agency, serves the needs of Chinatown’s families and youth. Cameron House offers prevention/intervention programs and services which address a broad spectrum of social needs through counseling, peer group support, crisis intervention, leadership development, education and advocacy.
The San Francisco Community Internship Program aims to help participants develop an understanding of the complex issues residents of a culturally and economically diverse city face on a daily basis. Through arranged tours, discussions, and volunteering opportunities, participants become involved with residents who have become socially and economically depressed. Through observation, interaction and reflection, participants are exposed to issues such as the lack of affordable housing, mental illness, aging, domestic and gang violence, unemployment, substance abuse, education, prostitution, yellow slavery and immigration. The Chinatown and Tenderloin neighborhoods serve as the primary neighborhoods for the internship experience.
The coordinator, the Reverend Dr. Harry Chuck has worked in the San Francisco community for more than fifty years, as director of Donaldina Cameron House, parish pastor and president of the city’s Public Housing Authority. Currently, he serves on the Juvenile Probation Commission and the city’s Homeless Coordinating Board. His son, Joshua, a graduate in community development, assists with the internship program.
TYPICAL ACTIVITIES INCLUDE:
During their time in San Francisco, participants work with non-profit agencies to feed the elderly and the homeless, plan/lead activities with underprivileged/at-risk youth, and implement an employment workshop in an economically depressed neighborhood.
LOCAL PARTERNING AGENCIES INCLUDE:
- Network Ministries (1972) provides a wide range of effective and compassionate service to people in the Tenderloin neighborhood.
- Glide Memorial Methodist Church (1963) serves the poor with meal programs, family services, training and employment, and others.
- Tenderloin Playground (1995) serves the Tenderloin’s youth with afterschool programs such as sports, music, various arts, cooking, tutoring, gardening, drama, ice skating, and sewing.
- Self-Help for the Elderly (1962) serves more than 25,000 seniors each year in San Francisco, San Mateo and Santa Clara counties .
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