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He quickly landed a paid internship at a Bronx courthouse near Yankee Stadium, where he learned about the court system, ran errands, and filed papers.
Nowhere to Go But suddenly, Bruce’s aunt became suspicious of him.
She accused him of doing or dealing drugs.
When he took a drug test to prove her wrong, she refused to accept the result.
Then one day in mid-December, Bruce’s aunt threw him out of the house.
It was the worst possible time, as the air turned cold and the nights turned long.
I thought she did because she was family,” Bruce says.
Eventually, he lost the job at the courthouse, but the staff at Covenant House was there to catch him.
“My caseworker, Roberto, helped me get back on my feet because he pushed me forward.
[resident assistants], and Brian, another staff person, they pushed you to get up in the morning, to go get a job.
And they would just find ways to make you happy, with trips to Six Flags or ice skating,” he says.
Bruce was accepted into Covenant House’s Rights of Passage program, where he focused on acquiring the skills he needed for independent living.
Then he began to reimagine the path to college and his “true goal.” streets.
He had no idea what to expect, and he was afraid.
“I thought I was going to just sit there and be depressed.
I thought it was going to be horrible, that I would get into fights,” he says.
“I never really suspected it would be a grateful place to be—where a young person like me could get their bearings straight.
Getting His Bearings It took time for Bruce to get past his aunt’s rejection.
“When I came to Covenant House, I was in a very dark place,” he says.
He took extremely long walks, from Midtown Manhattan to the Bronx, “just so I could get that anxiety out of me.
It’s hard to get straight Mott Street Scholars Bruce was accepted to two colleges, but the College of Mount Saint Vincent, through its Mott Street Scholarship program, offered him the comprehensive means he needed to reach his dreams.
The program completely covers students’ tuition and provides them with a laptop computer and year-round room and board, thus allaying students’ fears of becoming homeless again when school is not in session.
“The program is named after the first orphanage the sisters established, on Mott and Prince streets in Lower Manhattan,” adds Cia Kessler, director of the Arthur O. Eve Higher Education Opportunities Program (HEOP) at the school.
HEOP is a New York State scholarship program for disadvantaged students.
Most of the Covenant House students receive the benefit of the HEOP scholarship, Kessler indicates.
“But as Mott Street Scholars they get this additional piece that allows them to live year-round on campus and the choice to participate in some of the other advantages of typical students, from study abroad to summer and winter classes.” Covenant House partnered with Mount Saint Vincent in former residents among a total of 20 Mott Street Scholars.
They include one senior, five juniors, three sophomores, and five freshmen.
The first Mott Street Scholar on track to graduate with honors this spring.
“We want to help her get the best start she can after she leaves us, so we’re really thinking about how we can best serve her as she prepares to take on the world beyond college,” the dean says of the program’s newest challenge.
A Mutual Gift The Mott Street Scholars program is a life-changing gift for students like Bruce, but for Bongiovanni and Kessler, the gift goes both ways.
“Students like Bruce bring a wealth of compassion and insight, and they inspire us to be better,” says Kessler, who also teaches English.
She recalled how one of her Covenant House students ran into the classroom on the first day of the semester and hugged her, so happy was the student to be in school.
And she also recalled how a group of Mott Street Scholars came to the aid of a student who learned during class that her grandfather had suddenly died.
“They gravitated to her, took her to lunch, and followed up with her to make sure she was alright,” Kessler recalls.
“It means a lot to be able to study here,” Bruce shares.
When asked what advice he would give to a young person facing homelessness and the trials and achievements he has known, Bruce replies, “Never give up your hopes and dreams.
Even though life is hard, it’s really a rollercoaster.
And, he says, “Always look up.” It was tough at first, he admits—learning to live with structure, rules, and discipline.
But little by little, he adapted to his new life and began to embrace the opportunities that were opened up to him at the residence and through CAN’s innovative programming.
CAN’s Escuela Taller, or Vocational Training Workshop, offers a number of different career-oriented learning experiences, including sewing, cooking, and the one that most appealed to Pedro: metalworking.
CAN’s Metal Workshop Since the metal workshop opened at CAN in than 50 youth have participated in the vocational training course, where they learn the technical skills involved in bending hard metal to practical and esthetic purposes.
There are two phases to the course, each one lasting three months.
In the first phase, youth learn the basics of metalworking to a happy and fulfilling life may sometimes be difficult, they, too, can transform and mold their lives into the shape of a beautiful future.
The Future Takes Shape That certainly has been the case for Pedro, who, upon leaving Casa Alianza, returned to his native town of Jalapa.
“After Casa Alianza, I began a whole new stage in my life.
It was tough working through things at CAN, but in the process I learned to never give up, to keep on fighting.
It’s hard, but it is possible to succeed,” he says.
“When you leave CAN, you still struggle, but it’s different because something in your life is different; something has changed,” he says.
Pedro, now only for helping him discover and pursue a career in metalworking but, also, for encouraging him and motivating him to follow his dreams.
Thanks to skills he learned and then honed as a resident of Casa Alianza Nicaragua, Pedro was able to open his own business—a metal workshop—a few months before the baby was born.
Coming to Casa Alianza Nicaragua (CAN), as Covenant House is known in the Central American country, when he was just turned out to be “the best thing that ever happened to me,” Pedro says.
He was facing homelessness and addiction then, and had been sent to CAN by the court. and undertake an internship with CAN’s maintenance team.
By the end of this phase, they are able to make and repair practical items such as rakes, benches, and mops.
In the second phase, the teens expand their abilities and learn to create beautiful decorative household items.
The metal workshop, like the other courses in the Escuela Taller, aims to help the teens at CAN develop skills that will allow them to earn a living and, ultimately, to be able to lead satisfying and independent lives.
But there is even more to it than that.
The success of the metal workshop, CAN insists, is due, at least in part, to the philosophy it’s based on.
The training course seeks to show youth, through hands-on experience, that as hard a substance as metal is, it can be molded and shaped into beautiful and practical things.
And though the teens’ own struggles from homelessness “After Casa Alianza, I began a whole new stage in my life.
has been alleviating suffering inflicted on animals by humans.
I L D L I F E AWI seeks to reduce the detrimental impacts of human activities on wild animals.
We work to strengthen national and international wildlife protection and foster humane, nonlethal solutions to conflicts with wildlife.
a critical victory for red wolves when a federal court granted our request for a preliminary injunction in a lawsuit we filed in November 2020.
Endangered Species Act by jeopardizing the species’ continued existence.
Subsequently, the USFWS released four captive wolves and fostered four red wolf pups with a wild female wolf, doubling the population, which had fallen from over a hundred in last year.
This is a critical first step as our litigation continues.
environmental impact of its wildlife damage management programs.
to encourage Wildlife Services to use nonlethal alternatives when managing human-wildlife conflict.
AWI is also working to protect beavers by funding and promoting innovations to prevent flooding from beaver dams, assisting Wildlife Services in obtaining nonlethal beaver management training for staff, and proposing a federal grant program to help local governments install water flow control devices—rather than rely on cruel traps—to protect roads from beaver-caused flooding.
This year, nine research projects were selected to receive grants of up to $ Stevens Wildlife Awards.
This grant program, named for AWI’s founder, funds innovative strategies for humane, nonlethal wildlife-human conflict management and study.
Projects funded included studies involving red wolves, urban coyotes, whales, amphibians, and ground-nesting birds.
Since has distributed more than $650,000 in program grants.
Management announced it would reverse course on a decision (finalized the October before) to conduct risky sterilization surgeries on wild horses in Utah.
AWI had successfully litigated to stop the BLM from performing experimental ovariectomies on a herd in Oregon, but the agency continued to aggressively pursue this unsafe and inhumane method.
AWI rallied strong support among a bipartisan coalition of federal lawmakers, as well as support from the wild horse advocacy community, to press the Department of the Interior to abandon this misguided plan.
In May to BLM officials on the dangerous overreliance on helicopters to remove horses from the range and the negative impacts such operations pose to equine welfare.
AWI also submitted extensive regulatory comments outlining the legal problems with the BLM’s sweeping proposal to permanently remove checkerboard region—roughly 40 percent of the state’s population.
farming—an industry that is unnecessary, inhumane, and a threat to public health.
We drafted federal legislation that would phase out mink farms to prevent transmission of COVID- and humans and impose stricter reporting and inspection requirements on all fur farms.
We urged the federal government to increase industry transparency by collecting and sharing more information about fur operations.
And we submitted extensive, science-based comments encouraging the UK government to end its commercial fur trade entirely.
the Standing and Animals Committees of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).
how to prevent wildlife trade from triggering the next pandemic.
For the second year in a row, AWI awarded scholarships of $ high school seniors in the United States who plan to use their post-secondary education to alleviate animal suffering.
The already active in promoting animal welfare in their schools and communities.
They seek to further their efforts on behalf of animals as conservationists, wildlife veterinarians, marine biologists, and documentary filmmakers.
AWI continues to actively partner with the Humane Education Network on the “A Voice for Animals” contest for high school students around the world.
Entrants submitted essays, photos, and videos addressing the causes of animal suffering and proposed solutions to these issues.
The winners displayed exceptional initiative in developing their own projects and recruiting others to their cause.
AWI was pleased to award prizes for efforts to provide compassionate veterinary care to Indian street dogs, protect wildlife from toxic electronic waste, and work with a local animal shelter to engage fellow students in volunteer opportunities.
two new lesson plans to our teacher resources library.
Spanish translations of the lesson plans are also available to pair with the Spanish language versions of the books.
children’s books with young readers and their caregivers.
In addition to making these publications available for download from our website, we have been providing hard copies of books at no cost to humane societies and literacy programs around the United States.
When many schools shifted to remote methods of learning during the requests from several humane education programs that were unable to conduct their usual classroom visits.
These books have allowed them to maintain a connection to the students and continue to deliver messages of compassion and respect for animals.
AWI encourages educators to teach about biological and ecological processes in a manner that instills a greater respect for animals and avoids methods that treat animals as disposable commodities.
AWI works around the globe to prevent inhumane and ecologically harmful commercial exploitation of marine species and destruction and degradation of their habitats.
The stated purpose of the import was for research, but the whales (captive born offspring of a depleted Russian population) would also be on public display, and Mystic indicated it intended to allow these whales to breed.

He quickly landed a paid internship at a Bronx courthouse near Yankee Stadium, where he learned about the court system, ran errands, and filed papers.

Nowhere to Go But suddenly, Bruce’s aunt became suspicious of him.

She accused him of doing or dealing drugs.

When he took a drug test to prove her wrong, she refused to accept the result.

Then one day in mid-December, Bruce’s aunt threw him out of the house.

It was the worst possible time, as the air turned cold and the nights turned long.

I thought she did because she was family,” Bruce says.

Eventually, he lost the job at the courthouse, but the staff at Covenant House was there to catch him.

“My caseworker, Roberto, helped me get back on my feet because he pushed me forward.

[resident assistants], and Brian, another staff person, they pushed you to get up in the morning, to go get a job.

And they would just find ways to make you happy, with trips to Six Flags or ice skating,” he says.

Bruce was accepted into Covenant House’s Rights of Passage program, where he focused on acquiring the skills he needed for independent living.

Then he began to reimagine the path to college and his “true goal.” streets.

He had no idea what to expect, and he was afraid.

“I thought I was going to just sit there and be depressed.

I thought it was going to be horrible, that I would get into fights,” he says.

“I never really suspected it would be a grateful place to be—where a young person like me could get their bearings straight.

Getting His Bearings It took time for Bruce to get past his aunt’s rejection.

“When I came to Covenant House, I was in a very dark place,” he says.

He took extremely long walks, from Midtown Manhattan to the Bronx, “just so I could get that anxiety out of me.

It’s hard to get straight Mott Street Scholars Bruce was accepted to two colleges, but the College of Mount Saint Vincent, through its Mott Street Scholarship program, offered him the comprehensive means he needed to reach his dreams.

The program completely covers students’ tuition and provides them with a laptop computer and year-round room and board, thus allaying students’ fears of becoming homeless again when school is not in session.

“The program is named after the first orphanage the sisters established, on Mott and Prince streets in Lower Manhattan,” adds Cia Kessler, director of the Arthur O. Eve Higher Education Opportunities Program (HEOP) at the school.

HEOP is a New York State scholarship program for disadvantaged students.

Most of the Covenant House students receive the benefit of the HEOP scholarship, Kessler indicates.

“But as Mott Street Scholars they get this additional piece that allows them to live year-round on campus and the choice to participate in some of the other advantages of typical students, from study abroad to summer and winter classes.” Covenant House partnered with Mount Saint Vincent in former residents among a total of 20 Mott Street Scholars.

They include one senior, five juniors, three sophomores, and five freshmen.

The first Mott Street Scholar on track to graduate with honors this spring.

“We want to help her get the best start she can after she leaves us, so we’re really thinking about how we can best serve her as she prepares to take on the world beyond college,” the dean says of the program’s newest challenge.

A Mutual Gift The Mott Street Scholars program is a life-changing gift for students like Bruce, but for Bongiovanni and Kessler, the gift goes both ways.

“Students like Bruce bring a wealth of compassion and insight, and they inspire us to be better,” says Kessler, who also teaches English.

She recalled how one of her Covenant House students ran into the classroom on the first day of the semester and hugged her, so happy was the student to be in school.

And she also recalled how a group of Mott Street Scholars came to the aid of a student who learned during class that her grandfather had suddenly died.

“They gravitated to her, took her to lunch, and followed up with her to make sure she was alright,” Kessler recalls.

“It means a lot to be able to study here,” Bruce shares.

When asked what advice he would give to a young person facing homelessness and the trials and achievements he has known, Bruce replies, “Never give up your hopes and dreams.

Even though life is hard, it’s really a rollercoaster.

And, he says, “Always look up.” It was tough at first, he admits—learning to live with structure, rules, and discipline.

But little by little, he adapted to his new life and began to embrace the opportunities that were opened up to him at the residence and through CAN’s innovative programming.

CAN’s Escuela Taller, or Vocational Training Workshop, offers a number of different career-oriented learning experiences, including sewing, cooking, and the one that most appealed to Pedro: metalworking.

CAN’s Metal Workshop Since the metal workshop opened at CAN in than 50 youth have participated in the vocational training course, where they learn the technical skills involved in bending hard metal to practical and esthetic purposes.

There are two phases to the course, each one lasting three months.

In the first phase, youth learn the basics of metalworking to a happy and fulfilling life may sometimes be difficult, they, too, can transform and mold their lives into the shape of a beautiful future.

The Future Takes Shape That certainly has been the case for Pedro, who, upon leaving Casa Alianza, returned to his native town of Jalapa.

“After Casa Alianza, I began a whole new stage in my life.

It was tough working through things at CAN, but in the process I learned to never give up, to keep on fighting.

It’s hard, but it is possible to succeed,” he says.

“When you leave CAN, you still struggle, but it’s different because something in your life is different; something has changed,” he says.

Pedro, now only for helping him discover and pursue a career in metalworking but, also, for encouraging him and motivating him to follow his dreams.

Thanks to skills he learned and then honed as a resident of Casa Alianza Nicaragua, Pedro was able to open his own business—a metal workshop—a few months before the baby was born.

Coming to Casa Alianza Nicaragua (CAN), as Covenant House is known in the Central American country, when he was just turned out to be “the best thing that ever happened to me,” Pedro says.

He was facing homelessness and addiction then, and had been sent to CAN by the court. and undertake an internship with CAN’s maintenance team.

By the end of this phase, they are able to make and repair practical items such as rakes, benches, and mops.

In the second phase, the teens expand their abilities and learn to create beautiful decorative household items.

The metal workshop, like the other courses in the Escuela Taller, aims to help the teens at CAN develop skills that will allow them to earn a living and, ultimately, to be able to lead satisfying and independent lives.

But there is even more to it than that.

The success of the metal workshop, CAN insists, is due, at least in part, to the philosophy it’s based on.

The training course seeks to show youth, through hands-on experience, that as hard a substance as metal is, it can be molded and shaped into beautiful and practical things.

And though the teens’ own struggles from homelessness “After Casa Alianza, I began a whole new stage in my life.

has been alleviating suffering inflicted on animals by humans.

I L D L I F E AWI seeks to reduce the detrimental impacts of human activities on wild animals.

We work to strengthen national and international wildlife protection and foster humane, nonlethal solutions to conflicts with wildlife.

a critical victory for red wolves when a federal court granted our request for a preliminary injunction in a lawsuit we filed in November 2020.

Endangered Species Act by jeopardizing the species’ continued existence.

Subsequently, the USFWS released four captive wolves and fostered four red wolf pups with a wild female wolf, doubling the population, which had fallen from over a hundred in last year.

This is a critical first step as our litigation continues.

environmental impact of its wildlife damage management programs.

to encourage Wildlife Services to use nonlethal alternatives when managing human-wildlife conflict.

AWI is also working to protect beavers by funding and promoting innovations to prevent flooding from beaver dams, assisting Wildlife Services in obtaining nonlethal beaver management training for staff, and proposing a federal grant program to help local governments install water flow control devices—rather than rely on cruel traps—to protect roads from beaver-caused flooding.

This year, nine research projects were selected to receive grants of up to $ Stevens Wildlife Awards.

This grant program, named for AWI’s founder, funds innovative strategies for humane, nonlethal wildlife-human conflict management and study.

Projects funded included studies involving red wolves, urban coyotes, whales, amphibians, and ground-nesting birds.

Since has distributed more than $650,000 in program grants.

Management announced it would reverse course on a decision (finalized the October before) to conduct risky sterilization surgeries on wild horses in Utah.

AWI had successfully litigated to stop the BLM from performing experimental ovariectomies on a herd in Oregon, but the agency continued to aggressively pursue this unsafe and inhumane method.

AWI rallied strong support among a bipartisan coalition of federal lawmakers, as well as support from the wild horse advocacy community, to press the Department of the Interior to abandon this misguided plan.

In May to BLM officials on the dangerous overreliance on helicopters to remove horses from the range and the negative impacts such operations pose to equine welfare.

AWI also submitted extensive regulatory comments outlining the legal problems with the BLM’s sweeping proposal to permanently remove checkerboard region—roughly 40 percent of the state’s population.

farming—an industry that is unnecessary, inhumane, and a threat to public health.

We drafted federal legislation that would phase out mink farms to prevent transmission of COVID- and humans and impose stricter reporting and inspection requirements on all fur farms.

We urged the federal government to increase industry transparency by collecting and sharing more information about fur operations.

And we submitted extensive, science-based comments encouraging the UK government to end its commercial fur trade entirely.

the Standing and Animals Committees of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).

how to prevent wildlife trade from triggering the next pandemic.

For the second year in a row, AWI awarded scholarships of $ high school seniors in the United States who plan to use their post-secondary education to alleviate animal suffering.

The already active in promoting animal welfare in their schools and communities.

They seek to further their efforts on behalf of animals as conservationists, wildlife veterinarians, marine biologists, and documentary filmmakers.

AWI continues to actively partner with the Humane Education Network on the “A Voice for Animals” contest for high school students around the world.

Entrants submitted essays, photos, and videos addressing the causes of animal suffering and proposed solutions to these issues.

The winners displayed exceptional initiative in developing their own projects and recruiting others to their cause.

AWI was pleased to award prizes for efforts to provide compassionate veterinary care to Indian street dogs, protect wildlife from toxic electronic waste, and work with a local animal shelter to engage fellow students in volunteer opportunities.

two new lesson plans to our teacher resources library.

Spanish translations of the lesson plans are also available to pair with the Spanish language versions of the books.

children’s books with young readers and their caregivers.

In addition to making these publications available for download from our website, we have been providing hard copies of books at no cost to humane societies and literacy programs around the United States.

When many schools shifted to remote methods of learning during the requests from several humane education programs that were unable to conduct their usual classroom visits.

These books have allowed them to maintain a connection to the students and continue to deliver messages of compassion and respect for animals.

AWI encourages educators to teach about biological and ecological processes in a manner that instills a greater respect for animals and avoids methods that treat animals as disposable commodities.

AWI works around the globe to prevent inhumane and ecologically harmful commercial exploitation of marine species and destruction and degradation of their habitats.

The stated purpose of the import was for research, but the whales (captive born offspring of a depleted Russian population) would also be on public display, and Mystic indicated it intended to allow these whales to breed.