The Full Circle Learning Model

A Los Angeles-based non-profit organization, Children’s Enrichment Program (CEP), developed the full-circle learning model over a decade, as a response to community need. The program grew in a period of social turmoil following the civil unrest of 1992 in Los Angeles. The mssision of Full Circle Learning is to help all students embrace their role as society's helpers and healers...as responsible members of the human family...as compassionate world citizens today and as the ethical world leaders of tomorrow.

Full-Circle learning is a model of education in which all learning springs from the deliberate application of positive habits-of-heart. The lesson plans teach students to apply these habits in their personal lives, their community lives and their future professional lives, integrating academic and arts projects and conflict resolution practices and culminating in community service. The result is an orientation that fosters ethical, altruistic leaders in the making, even during the formative pre-adolescent years.

The Full-Circle Learning model is adaptable for in-school, summer school, after-school, weekend or home-school programs. It can be adapted for students ages 6 – 16. The developers of the model, the non-profit Children's Enrichment Program, have supplied more than 50 communities with materials, at schools and community development projects from California to Kenya. The Full Circle Learning model was recently translated into Chinese and Spanish.

Mona Foundation Support

Mona Foundation is starting to collaborate with Full Circle Learning this year in the following areas:

Mona Foundation will support The Rancho Sespe Enrichment Program for Children of Migrant Workers in the agricultural regions of Ventura County, California. The summer camp and after school program provided by Full Circle Learning serves a housing development of 500 residents whose children have nowhere to go after school hours and on the long summer days as their parents are off in the fields and packing plants. Begun as a violence-prevention program, the project soon began to enhance literacy, the arts and provide social enrichment among families in this community, where few of the parents speak English and children need support for their learning and community-linked experience.

Mona Foundation will start a volunteer referral progrm by matching potential volunteers to the needs of Full Circle Learning projects inside the US and abroad.

Needs for 2007

• $1,500 Migrant Program

How You Can Help

Please contact us or send your tax-deductible contributions to:

Mona Foundation
218 Main Street, Suite 404
Kirkland, WA 98033
(425) 743-4550
Email: monafoundation@monafoundation.org
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