{"id":38982,"date":"2025-02-19T13:16:36","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T18:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/?p=38982"},"modified":"2025-02-19T13:16:36","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T18:16:36","slug":"alumna-creates-organization-to-assist-former-foster-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/alumna-creates-organization-to-assist-former-foster-youth\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumna Creates Organization To Assist Former Foster Youth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7Aiqcd7MYzU\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shavon Saint Preux<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> always knew she wanted to help others.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While living in a group home for foster kids, the then 14-year-old met her mentor DD Eisenberg, a volunteer who taught reading and creative writing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cEvery time I ran into a problem, [DD] was there to help me,\u201d Saint Preux said. \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So from a very young age, I saw [that] youth who age out of foster care, who don&#8217;t have support systems, need mentors.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2022, she founded <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepitcenter.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Propelling Into Triumph<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, an organization dedicated to helping foster youth transition into adulthood.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The program&#8217;s services include mentorship to help with educational opportunities and employment and provide training in essential life skills, such as cooking and cleaning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Saint Preux\u2019s time at Miami Dade College inspired her to open PIT. In 2016, she was a part of the College\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bluetoad.com\/publication\/?i=289779&amp;p=28&amp;view=issueViewer&amp;pre=1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Changemaker Corps Peer Mentoring<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> program. She served as a peer mentor, helping former foster youth navigate personal challenges and keep them on track toward graduation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Those experiences led her to apply to the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clintonfoundation.org\/programs\/leadership-public-service\/clinton-global-initiative-university\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Clinton Global Initiative University<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2014a program that allows college students worldwide to submit proposals to fund their solution to a societal issue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Her idea for PIT was selected, and she was flown to a national convention where she met other awardees to network and share ideas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cShavon is a testament to the important role of helping students become more civically engaged while they&#8217;re [enrolled at MDC] and how it can lead to long term and community-wide impacts,\u201d said Josh Young, college-wide director of the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdc.edu\/iced\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Institute for Civic Engagement &amp; Democracy<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 31-year-old\u2019s organization works with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saintshouse.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Saints House<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a sister program also founded by Saint Preux. The facility specializes in housing youth who age out of foster care including many PIT scholars. To date, they have housed twenty-two women and nine children.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Daina Bellegarde is one of the program\u2019s beneficiaries. The 24-year-old entered the foster care system when she was 10 years old and struggled with homelessness until she saw Saint Preux on the news promoting Saints House.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today, Bellegrade is a pre-nursing student at Medical Campus. The PIT scholar is pursuing a doctor in nursing practice degree, a credential that prepares nurses for educational and leadership positions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cBy seeing other people come from the same place you came from doing this, it gives you motivation,\u201d said Bellegarde, who hopes to run an organization and a clinic for homeless people and foster children. \u201cIt doesn&#8217;t matter where you came from and what you&#8217;re going through.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Propelling Into Triumph also has a \u201cMommy and Me\u201d program, which provides resources and parenting guides for young mothers who have aged out of foster care.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cOur goal is to break the cycle of foster care,\u201d Saint Preux said. \u201cWe understand that if they are not provided with the adequate resources, they can fall in between the gaps and then their children can go into foster care, and the cycle continues.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Click<\/span><\/i><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.us19.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=4fc6146412415baee32007fd7&amp;id=b5cd3712dc\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> here<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to subscribe to our bi-weekly newsletter, The Hammerhead. For news tips, contact us at mdc.thereporter@gmail.com.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shavon Saint Preux always knew she wanted to help others.\u00a0 While living in a group home for foster kids, the then 14-year-old met her mentor DD Eisenberg, a volunteer who taught reading and creative writing.\u00a0 \u201cEvery time I ran into a problem, [DD] was there to help me,\u201d Saint Preux said. \u201cSo from a very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13482656,"featured_media":39017,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-38982","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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