According to the Global Partnership for Education, “420 million people would be lifted out of poverty with a secondary education, thus reducing the number of poor worldwide by more than half.”
Youth Programs
Our Lady of Guadalupe- Chicago, IL
The youth group is a safe space for teens to feel heard and supported. It offers them a place that feels like home where young people can build community, discuss life, and discover new opportunities. Many of our teens live in an area where poverty, violence, and discouragement can feel overwhelming. But inside these walls, they find something different: hope, dignity, purpose. This place is a Home Built on Faith.
Schools
Chicago, IL
Our Lady of Guadalupe School (OLGS) in South Chicago, creates a rigorous academic environment for the next generation of community leaders.
San Gabriel, CA
San Gabriel Mission Elementary School (SGMES) is located on of the original Spanish missions in California and is one of California’s oldest Kindergarten through 8th grade parish schools. The Claretians made plans to open a school to serve Spanish and Mexican families when they began ministering to the parish in 1908. SGMES is committed to academic excellence through a standards-based curriculum and strives to awaken in students an enthusiasm for life-long learning and an ambition to achieve academic excellence and to lead a well-balanced life. Learn more here.
San Gabriel, CA
San Gabriel Mission High School all-girls high school located on the historic grounds of San Gabriel Mission. For 60 years, it has remained committed to inspiring, educating, and empowering young women and to providing a safe and nurturing environment while focusing on individual development.
Jersey City, NJ
Saint Joseph Catholic Elementary School is an educational community dedicated to preparing its students spiritually, academically, socially, technologically, physically, and emotionally for the future. The school works tirelessly to create a peaceable school environment rich in diverse academic opportunities for a multicultural population.
Victoriaville, Qúebec CANADA
Founded in 1954, Collège Clarétain is a private secondary school and a diverse, dynamic, innovative living environment that meets the needs of today’s young people and their families. Whether students are enrolled in day school or living on the school’s campus, Collège Clarétain’s daily lessons, organized sports, and dedicated study schedule are decisively geared towards their success and well-being.
Campus Outreach Programs
Claretian Community Impact is proud to accompany the next generation of community leaders through campus outreach programs in California. Our campus ministers invite students to become more active in social service and volunteer programs and provide undergraduate and graduate students with access to counseling, reflection and discussion groups, annual retreats, social events, and community service projects. By supporting today’s students, we support tomorrow’s leaders.
California
St. Paul Catholic Newman Center, Fresno, CA
Serving: Fresno State University, Fresno Pacific University and Fresno City College
Collège Clarétain, Victoriaville, Qúebec CANADA
Serving: Fresno State University, Fresno Pacific University and Fresno City College
Students are amazed and excited when they can see things they don’t normally get to see. I want to give them that sense of awe by discovering a whole new world!
– Teacher at Our Lady of Guadalupe School
Local community leaders like the Claretians are uniquely positioned to collaborate with local schools and parents to ensure that young people have sustained access to the kind of education that will allow them to become successful, informed, and productive community members.
Education, in this way, is not just a means to an end, but rather an end in itself, as it empowers and expands a young person’s choices and opportunities.