CASA SERVICES
The Center for Access, Success and Achievement offers various services to support the academic and professional success of its students, including peer mentoring, life coaches, tutoring and a lending library.
PEER MENTORING
CASA provides various mentoring opportunities for both academic and life skills. These opportunities encourage individual excellence while allowing students to learn and grow through workshops and other programs.
The purpose of this society is to recognize scholars of high moral and academic integrity; foster academic and professional improvement; and encourage individual excellence to empower the multicultural community to make a substantial impact on the campus of 草榴社区.
Email the Edward Collymore Honors Society or program director Nicole Davis to join or learn more.
The Limitless Initiative for Friendship and Trust (LIFT) is a peer mentoring program housed in the Center for Access, Success and Achievement (CASA). Students can join as mentees or mentors.
- Mentees are first-year students who would benefit from the guidance and friendship of upper-level students who have been in their shoes. Mentees commit to regular meetings with a supportive mentor.
- Mentors are sophomores, juniors and seniors who would like to share their experience and knowledge, and who are driven to support peers. Mentors are selected based on their academic achievement as well as their engagement and involvement at 草榴社区.
All students who are part of LIFT will make up a community of mutual support and fellowship. In the Limitless Initiative for Friendship and Trust, we celebrate each other鈥檚 successes, and when we are down, we LIFT each other up!
Email the LIFT Peer Mentor Program or program advisor Rachel Epstein to join or learn more.
We validate, enlighten and empower.
My Sister鈥檚 KeepHER is an empowerment program intended to provide women with a place to speak, explore, learn and grow with and from each other. Our mission involves providing a space for women to share their experiences in order to validate, enlighten and empower each other. We invite women to be women. We explore all the intersectionalities of womanhood in order to create an inclusive environment where everyone in the room leaves feeling better than when she entered.
Values
- Holistic Health
- Women Empowerment
- Self- Care
- Volunteering
- Safe Space
Email My Sister鈥檚 KeepHER or program director Nicole Davis to join or learn more.
Working to be Informed, Studious and Engaged (WISE) exists to provide resources, empowerment and social skill development for males students here at 草榴社区. We seek to positively impact the lives of these young men through mentorship, workshops and various other programs and events.
Vision
We want to see all of our male students achieve academic success and become continual learners and professionals after graduating from 草榴社区.
Values
We believe in the following principles:
D.R.E.A.M.
Discipline - Remaining focused, limiting distractions and accomplishing set goals
Responsibility - Being responsible for your own success
Excellence - Giving your best in all you do
Ambition - Set the bar higher than the norm and never settle for less
Motivation - Having passion for what you want to achieve
Email program coordinator Marquis Coates to join or learn more.
LIFE COACHES
The role of the CASA Life Coaches is to:
- Empower students through personal development;
- Help students adjust emotionally, mentally and spiritually to the academic and social environment of college;
- Assist students in identifying their strengths and weaknesses and how to maximize strengths while strengthening weaknesses; and
- Develop and enhance positive life coping strategies while decreasing and eliminating negative life coping strategies.
Contact your CASA Retention Coach to schedule a session.
Dr. George James, LMFT speaks, counsels, consults, coaches and teaches people how to overcome everyday relational struggles to build successful connections in love, family and career. With a practical approach to relationships and life, Dr. James helps bring success within the reach of those he influences!
Dr. James is a nationally recognized speaker, seminar presenter and lecturer on various topics. His breadth of expertise includes a special emphasis on topics geared toward couples, men, professional athletes, actors/entertainers, musicians, college students, family-owned businesses and people of color. Dr. James is devoted to working with people to help them improve their quality of life, to be involved in the healing of their wounds and enrichment of their relationships.
Dr. James attended 草榴社区 as a Presidential Scholar, and majored in Psychology and concentrated in Africana Studies. He received his Masters of Family Therapy degree from Drexel University and his doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Immaculata University.
He is married to Candace and they are parents to their beautiful daughter, Nalani, and cheerful son, Alexander.
Fiona Molina is a Marriage and Family therapist who helps people improve different areas of their lives, manage their emotions, build self-awareness, and create meaningful change. She enjoys supporting people through the pressures, opportunities, and personal growth that come at different stages of life.
Courtney Ragin is a licensed marriage and family therapist who specializes in supporting individuals and families as they navigate life transitions and overcome depression, anxiety and challenges in interpersonal relationships. She completed her Masters in Family Therapy at Drexel University. Courtney has a special interest in helping women address burnout in the workplace and incorporate exercise into treatment as a tool to combat mental health challenges. Courtney has more than five years of experience working with college students to help them grow in confidence, create community and thrive during this life stage.
Courtney utilizes Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy skills to help clients identify and pursue a life in alignment with their values. She believes that everyone has the tools within to navigate life鈥檚 challenges and finds purpose in helping people tap into their inner strength and potential.
Outside of therapy/coaching, Courtney coaches group fitness classes in Philadelphia. She also enjoys spending time in nature, doing obstacle course races with her family and traveling both domestically and internationally.
LENDING LIBRARY
CASA maintains a small library of books and textbooks accessible for our students to checkout for the semester. The lending library has proven to be a valuable resource to help defray the costs of instructional materials that CASA students may need for class. This is particularly important in the era of rising textbook costs. In return, we ask students to donate purchased textbooks back to the library for future students to use.
