Summit Field Trips

Summit Field Trips

Friday, March 2nd, 12:15-3:00PM

If you want to deepen your experience of the Summit and further your learning sign up for one of five Summit Fieldtrips.  Spots will be filled on a first come, first served basis.  To sign up you must turn in a permission slip to the OFJ.  Sign up early to save your spot.

All trips will take place on Friday, March 2nd.  Lunch is provided.  Meet in the Student Activity Center immediately after school for lunch.  You will depart in your respective groups from the SAC and will return to Brophy around 3PM and as early as 2:30PM.

What do you need to do?

  1. See below for your fieldtrip options
  2. Choose the one that is most appealing to you
  3. Pick up a permission slip in the OFJ or print one here.
  4. Have your parents sign your permission slip
  5. Turn it in to the Office of Faith and Justice ASAP to save your seat!

Lunch will be provided for all field trip participants in the Student Activity Center immediately afterschool prior to departure for the trips.  Students must report to the SAC immediately after school to check in and ensure enough time to eat.

Questions? Contact the OFJ

Option 1: Dignity Diversion

The DIGNITY Diversion program is run in conjunction with the City of Phoenix Prosecutor’s Office and gives clients who have been arrested for prostitution in Phoenix the option to complete the program as an alternative to serving jail time.  DIGNITY Diversion focuses on support, education and treatment to end the life of prostitution, as well as job placement assistance.  DIGNITY Diversion also provides a program for johns arrested for prostitution to help them understand and appreciate the harm that they cause to women.

This fieldtrip to the Diversion headquarters will expose students to the reality of prostitution, especially how girls as young as 11 & 13 are drawn into it and then forced to stay.  It will include a conversation with a Sgt. from the Vice Enforcement squad of the Phoenix Police Department who will share with the students about his work.

 

Option 2: Teen Maze 2012

Teen Maze is a fun, interactive experience to help teens realize the potential consequences of the choices they make concerning issues such as sexual activity, technology and substance use. The maze also explores career and education opportunities. Teens navigate the maze through Fiesta Mall by drawing cards, rolling die and spinning wheels to indicate their choices and then discover the consequences.

Envision a life-size game and you get the idea.

 

Option 3: Scottsdale Fashion Square Scavenger Hunt

Join us for a trip to Scottsdale Fashion Square where we will explore common images of gender in advertising and commerce through a fun photo-hunt.

 

Option 4: Sojourner Center

Sojourner Center is the largest domestic violence shelter the United States. As a direct result of its capacity, Sojourner Center is able to serve over 2,900 women and children annually.  Sojourner Center has three campuses with the capacity of 280 beds and 32 transitional apartments. Twenty- nine of the apartments are located at Sojourner Center’s Transitional Family Living Campus. This facility also has a community clubhouse, as well as an education center.

On this fieldtrip students will tour the Transitional Family Living Campus as they learn about the reality of domestic violence.

 

Option 5: Maggie’s Place

Maggie’s Place is a community that provides houses of hospitality for expectant women who wish to achieve their goals in a dignified atmosphere. Following Catholic social teaching, we recognize that we are responsible to and for one another. We challenge each other to strive toward personal growth, to welcome the gift of every person that enters our door, and to promote positive social change.  In this way, we celebrate and provide for the next generation.

On this fieldtrip students will tour Maggie’s Place and learn about their important ministry to expectant mothers and babies.