Center for Community Engagement

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CCE wishes everybody a happy pride month!

Pride is so important because, unfortunately, people of varying identities are still discriminated against and shamed into hiding, sometimes for their whole lives, and almost definitely, for some period of time before they come out. Everybody deserves the freedom to be their true selves with no shame or fear for their safety.

We hope that everybody gets the chance to experience the feelings of love and pride this month, whatever that means for you!

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Our Learning and Exploring at Play Program (LEAP) recently celebrated their annual LEAP graduation. This event celebrated both our LEAP RCSD students and our UR undergraduate tutors! Thanks to the hard work of our tutors and team leaders, each of our students received personalized gifts and had the opportunity to partake in exciting post-ceremony activities🎉🎁

Once our LEAP families went home for the day, we took the time to celebrate our undergraduate seniors who will graduated from the program this May. Each senior received a hand-picked book, and those who worked as team leaders received a handmade frog plush made with love by LEAP’s program manager, Katie Hardin🐸💚

Shout-out to our tutors and team leads for a great year, we will miss you over the summer! And to our seniors who are graduating, we wish you all of the best in your journey ahead🥰

Hinge Neighbors is offering a great volunteer opportunity for anyone who finds themselves in the Rochester area this summer🌞

If that isn’t you, spread the word to someone who might be interested & around🚴

To sign up to volunteer, email [email protected], also linked in the linktree in our bio📥