Community, conversations and connections at the Draper Center

Staff members and student coordinators at Pomona’s Draper Center for Community Partnerships, a space that supports community engagement activities for students at Pomona and the 5Cs.

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Pomona Mountain Project brings mental health outdoors to high schoolers in the Inland Empire

Do the 5Cs feel like a bubble? Pop it and take a step outside with the Pomona Mountain Project (PMP), an organization founded in 2019 by Shawn Trimble PO ’21 and Nicole Arce PO ’21, dedicated to giving nearby high school students an unorthodox approach to mental health care.

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Broken Silence and Nobody Fails at CMC are expanding what students can do for each other

Broken Silence 5Cs and Nobody Fails at CMC continue to raise money and diversify goals upon return to campus.

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Pomona Employment Partners tackle homelessness and unemployment one resume at a time

The student-run Draper Center program Pomona Employment Partners is tackling the Californian homeless crisis, working to eliminate unemployment in the city of Pomona by acting as one-on-one employment case managers. “I came to the conclusion that employment assistance [is] an area where college students seem uniquely positioned to help people experiencing homelessness,” founder Sophie Roe PO ’19 said.

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