Join at the exciting benefit film preview on September, 11th at the Avalon Theater. Tickets will go on sale at the Avalon box office on Friday, August 19th and will be available through the night of the showing. Please come early or stay late and enjoy ice cream and great conversation at the LAYC Ben & Jerry's next door. Please send this along to other film and ice cream fans who may be interested. Just as a note - the film is in Spanish with English subtitles.

The Latin American Youth Center (LAYC) is a multicultural community-based organization that supports youth and their families in their determination to live, work, and study with dignity, hope, and joy.

To learn more about the programs and enjoy outstanding ice cream, please join staff and young people from the Latin American Youth Center at Ben and Jerry's Scoop Shop next door to the theater before and after the screening. Show your ticket for $1 ice cream discount. The Chevy Chase and Eastern Market Ben and Jerry's are owned by the Latin American Youth Center and operated by youth as part of the Youth Center's employment training program.

Come out and talk with attorneys about whether you can clean up your record.


Employment, vocational and educational agencies will be onsite to offer services to those who have difficulty obtaining employment. Other Social Services including drug treatment will be available.

Representatives of the DC Employment Justice Center will provide classes which provide techniques for dealing with a criminal record job applications and interviews.

The mission of the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia is to provide and promote quality legal representation to indigent adults and children facing a loss of liberty in the District of Columbia and thereby protect society?s interest in the fair administration of justice.

Contact Kelly Salzmann at 202.824.2802 fro more information.

MENTORS are being recruited for Big Brothers Big Sisters of the National Capital Region. Those mentors recruited will be mentoring children of incarcerated parents.

Their mission is to recruit 300 mentors who are willing to commit to at least 1 year of service to change the life of a child.

BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTER AMACHI MENTORING PROGRAM

Mentor Requirements:

A menotr must be at least 21 years of age, have lived in the area for 8 months and attend an initial 1- 2 hour training session held at a BBBS site in either MD or DC. Both sites are convenient to public transportation. Quarterly trainings are offered for mentors on various topics. An initial meeting with the mentee and the care giver is encouraged.

JOIN IN THE MISSION

BECOME A MENTOR - SIGN UP TODAY

For more information email dcnabcj@hotmail.com or call 301-379-6619

Sylvia Benatti campus executive director of American Humanics at UDC and also the the contact for the CoRAL Network, is quoted saying "You tell students it's not just that you go to nonprofits because the right corporate job wasn't there. You can make a decent wage, you can serve mankind and you can do something that is fulfilling."

If you would like to share any announcements from your organization or campus with the CoRAL Network community, send a brief blurb to kcarter@coralnetwork.org by close of business each Thursday for inclusion in the following Monday's Newsbits.

Please note that submissions MUST be about local events, news, opportunities and activities that are related to community affairs in the District of Columbia, Maryland, or Northern Virginia.