{"id":9158,"date":"2016-10-18T22:39:49","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T02:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mdcthereporter.com\/?p=9158"},"modified":"2021-04-09T16:12:36","modified_gmt":"2021-04-09T20:12:36","slug":"leading-pursuing-stability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/leading-pursuing-stability\/","title":{"rendered":"Leading While Pursuing Stability"},"content":{"rendered":"

At his job at the Student Life office, Enrique Sepulveda, 22, vice president of the Student Government Association at Wolfson Campus, wears a neat button down shirt and politely answers the phone. He takes helping students become involved and connecting them to information seriously. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI am learning what it takes to inspire others, so they can become leaders themselves,\u201d Sepulveda said. <\/span><\/p>\n

He is an ideal picture of an outgoing working student<\/span>\u2014organized<\/span>, <\/span>professional and calm.<\/span><\/p>\n

But it was not always this way for him. His turbulent childhood included moving nearly half a dozen times around Miami-Dade County, avoiding gangs in high school, getting kicked out of his house at 18, squatting in a foreclosed home and working in construction. Now Sepulveda has found stability allowing him to succeed in his studies by residing in a special program for homeless students at the Camillus House shelter in the city. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThey helped relieve a lot of weight off my shoulders,\u201d Sepulveda said. \u201cI position myself to be on campus 12 hours a day, and Camillus House has provided a safe place for me to avoid all kinds of distractions. It\u2019s a lot better than what I was used to.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

LIFE STARTED UNRAVELING<\/b><\/p>\n

Sepulveda\u2019s <\/span>home life has been filled with conflict and strife. He and his sister Destin<\/span>y Sepulveda, 20, wer<\/span>e dismissed from their Palmetto Bay home in the fall of 2013, after their mother and stepfather arrived drunk and a fight between the mother and the sister <\/span>raged, according to <\/span>Enrique Sepulveda.<\/span> \u00a0With the hope to end it, Sepulveda intervened. But then his stepfather walked into the room. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHe points his finger at me and him and I start fighting right after,\u201d Enrique Sepulveda said. \u201cMy mom started screaming and told both of us to get out.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

A friend suggested for the siblings to spend the night in an empty foreclosed house in Coconut Grove. Destiny soon moved in with her boyfriend but Enrique called it home for the next two years. <\/span><\/p>\n

At the beginning he did odd jobs, like favors for friends who would pay him for cutting the grass in their yards. <\/span><\/p>\n

However, Sepulveda, had decided to change the direction his life was taking long before. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI see myself as being a victim of things that I did to maintain because everywhere I looked around me there were negative influences,\u201d Sepulveda said. \u201cIt was a bad neighborhood where there was gang violence going on all the time.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Violence struck him in other ways. As he waited for the bus one night of his junior year <\/span>of high school, <\/span>one of his friends was shot in the eye and Sepulveda got a gunshot in his mouth. Since it was a BB gunshot, he made it alive, but afterwards, he found none of his friends cared for him. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The chaos in his life took a toll on his school performance. He went from being a popular all-star football athlete in high school with a 0.8 grade point average and three credits to an <\/span>invisible r<\/span>epeating senior in 2013.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHe kept engaging in fighting and his attendance was sporadic, but I think overall there was just a maturity that occurred with him.\u201d said Allison Harley, the former principal at Palmetto<\/span> Senior High School. <\/span>\u201cHis life was very tumultuous.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

After finally graduating high school in 2014, Sepulveda worked full-time as a <\/span>salesman in a <\/span>hardware store. Among the frequent customers were a group of general contractors who connected him to his next job. He worked in a landscaping company laboring 12 hours every day until an arm injury, in the spring of 2015, forced him to leave his position, since he could not bear the physical labor it entailed. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI was working for million-dollar clients and truly that experience was sort of the exposure I needed to decide that I needed a college education because I was exposed to the way that they live,\u201d Sepulveda said. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

FOCUSED ON EDUCATION<\/b><\/p>\n

Sepulveda then decided to enroll in MDC, clueless of the paperwork it required for someone in his situation, he went to Kendall and North Campus to register but had no luck. <\/span><\/p>\n

He reached out to Wendy Joseph, the program coordinator for Educate Tomorrow, who helped him enroll at Wolfson Campus. The organization helps MDC <\/span>students and immediate family members connect to public benefits and local resources. <\/span>She also helped him with financial aid and signed him up for Educate Tomorrow, a nonprofit that serves MDC students under Single Stop, aiming to help them with their educational aspirations regardless of the situation they are in. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHe was there on time, dressed very nicely, the same Enrique that we know now is who I met, very humble and he basically said \u2018All I want to do is go to school,\u2019\u201d Joseph said. <\/span><\/p>\n

Sepulveda began at MDC in the summer of 2015 to study atmospheric science and meteorology and found a job at Target, where he worked the overnight shift restocking shelves. He was worn and exhausted, so his performance in classes was not ideal. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe can get a student in these doors but if I\u2019m sitting here or a student is sitting in class and they\u2019re worried about \u2018Where am I going to go sleep tonight? Am I going to have food to eat today? Are my belongings going to be vandalized? Is my sister going to be okay?\u2019\u201d Joseph said. \u201cYou can physically be sitting here, but if in your mind you\u2019re thinking about all these other life challenges, you\u2019re not going to be very productive.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

In a chance encounter during a meeting with Joseph, Sepulveda introduced himself to Jaime Anzalotta, the dean of students at Wolfson Campus. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI saw a spark of willingness to achieve in Enrique,\u201d Anzalotta said. \u201c[He] was going through some very very tough personal issues.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

Anzalotta \u00a0helped Sepulveda get a part-time, weekday position in the Student Life Department. He soon became involved with the Student Government Association at Wolfson Campus and was elected in March as the vice president for the 2016-17 year. <\/span><\/p>\n

But his housing situation was still unstable<\/span>.<\/b> The foreclosed house where he had lived in for two years had been repossessed. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOne day the bank came knocking on the door to change the locks and they had the house refinished,\u201d Sepulveda said. When this happened, his ex-girlfriend\u2019s brother offered him a couch to crash but after an argument he found himself homeless again. Sepulveda went to make amends with his mother, but once she took him in, he saw the movie of his childhood playing out again. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI had started already with the school lifestyle and living with my mother just created a whole other form of negative influences and distractions,\u201d Sepulveda said. \u201cAgain, my grades kept declining, I wasn\u2019t getting sleep and I was just really stressed out.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

For a couple of weeks, he parked his car by Margaret Pace Park and slept in it. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI was embarrassed,\u201d Sepulveda said. \u201cI knew I had to get myself out of the situation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

A BETTER HOME<\/b><\/p>\n

That\u2019s when Sepulveda reached out to Anzalotta and was directed to Camillus House, a full service center for low income and homeless people.<\/span><\/p>\n

Based on the community\u2019s need, last April, Camillus House opened a housing program for young adults who, like Sepulveda, have the desire to succeed but are limited by their homelessness situation. The Catholic Church-based charity offers <\/span>meals, medical care, showers, shelter and drug treatment to thousands of men, women and children yearly at numerous downtown Miami sites. <\/span><\/p>\n

The young adults in the<\/span> Youth Housing Program g<\/span>o home to dorm-like colorful rooms <\/span>in their building in Overtown<\/span>. A requirement to reside in the program is to be enrolled in an educational path. Currently, there are five women and 12 men between the ages of 18 and 24. One of the rooms houses LGBTQI+ youth, providing them a safe space to succeed. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThey were house-surfing, they were surfing from house to house in different individuals couches and they really had no stable environment,\u201d said Fred Mims, <\/span>Director of the Direct Care Ministry at Camillus House<\/span>, \u201cBut they had the desire to go back to school and continue their education as well as work.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The participants have to be referred by Educate Tomorrow, Project Safe, or any of the partner organization of Camillus House in order to be part of the youth housing initiative. <\/span><\/p>\n

The program offers three meals per day, psychological assistance, and a case manager that tracks their progress and connects them with resources to get free bus passes and free books, among other necessities. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re also trying to teach independence,\u201d Mims said, \u201cSo at one level when they start working and doing things they might move to a higher level of living where they might have to pay a contribution in the near future.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

In early October, the Camillus House facility at Somerville started hosting the second phase of the program for those who have succeeded in Overtown. Sepulveda moved to Somerville.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sepulveda is not the first homeless student to pursue studies at the College. Up to this past summer, MDC had enrolled 771 students who qualified as homeless during the last five years. By state law, Miami Dade College waives tuition for homeless students.<\/span><\/p>\n

His life experience has inspired him to change his major to political science. <\/span><\/p>\n

Sepulveda is expected to graduate from MDC next spring with an associate\u2019s degree. Then he hopes to transfer to Florida State University in Tallahassee to complete a bachelor\u2019s degree in political science and eventually a master\u2019s in public administration. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cEnrique is truly the epitome of success, resilience, dedication, commitment,\u201d Anzalotta said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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