Community Beyond Campus
WE’RE PART OF SOMETHING LARGER As a Sacred Heart School, SHA Bryn Mawr is a proud member of our International Network of Sacred Heart Schools. We are connected to 25 Network Schools in the United States and Canada. We share a common heritage and mission with over 150 Sacred Heart schools in 41 countries. SHA Bryn Mawr values this extension of our Bryn Mawr campus. Although in-person connections through exchange, summer service, and Network conferences were not possible this year, our student community not only remained connected with the Network, but also established new connections.
Members of the Sacred Heart Academy Virtual Dialogue Group proudly display their SHA Network T-shirts.
Network Summer Service 2020 By Kelly Weber
In the Network of Sacred Heart Schools, summer usually provides an opportunity for students from different schools to engage in service and advocacy together through Network Summer Service programs. During summer 2020, these programs shifted to a virtual platform and focused on learning and awareness. Jocelyn Moehrle ’23 participated in The Juvenile Justice Project, which provided a perspective of the experience of a teenager in our nation’s criminal justice system. Students looked at different support structures that work to help young people who are at risk for a variety of reasons (prevention programs, alternative high schools, etc.) and met with a variety of people including advocates for juvenile justice, judges, prosecutors, public defenders, social workers, educators, and teenagers who have been in the justice system.
6 Vue du Cœur SUMMER 2021
Emily Hart ’23 and Violet Randle ’21 participated in a new program called Socially Aware and Empathetic Thinking. In the week-long experience, students deepened their skills in being informed young people through a variety of activities. Students examined their identities, built critical consciousness around social issues such as immigration, and brainstormed ways to make positive changes in their communities. In summer 2021, the Network programs remain virtual with three students scheduled to participate, two in The Juvenile Justice Project and one in Hearts Open to Inclusion, which will educate participants to the unique challenges that face individuals who have intellectual and developmental disabilities/differences, to engage students in opportunities to meet and learn from people who have disabilities, and to propose ways of building relationships with, and advocating for, people in this population.
“ Independent but never isolated, every Sacred Heart school needs to feel the strength of belonging to a larger whole, of sharing principles, broad purposes, hopes and ambitions.” PREAMBLE TO THE GOALS AND CRITERIA, 1975
