Twomey Center for Peace through Justice Urban Partners & Youth Leadership Development
Connecting Loyola University to the New Orleans community
21st Century Youth Leadership Participant presenting a bill before the floor of the Alabama State House
Urban Partners
The Urban Partners program links university resources to assist efforts to address community-based issues. One way that this done is by helping to connect Loyola faculty and staff as a resource to community leaders.
Currently, Urban Partners sponsors low-income youth to attend leadership development camps such as the VITAL Summer Program in New Orleans and the 21st Century Youth Leadership Movement in Selma, Alabama.
Before Hurricane Katrina, several members of Loyola faculty and staff joined with resident leaders of the C. J. Peete public housing development to establish a computer school in the housing development. The C. J. Peete POWER Computer School provided adult education and job training during the day and offered an after school tutorial and homework assistance program for children in the afternoon and the evening.
The Urban Partners Program works closely with the Jackson Barracks Prison Education Project. For several years, forty to fifty Loyola faculty members and staff worked with prison authorities and inmate leaders creating a program that included establishing a prison library and conducted classes in the prison in subjects ranging from literacy to law.
For more information about how to get involved, contact Ted Quant at 504.861.5831
