SERVICES
PIER services include not only
free tutoring and mentoring, but we also hold monthly cultural
workshops, field trips to UCLA, college workshops, and leadership
conferences, among many other things. Our services are designed to
address the students; needs through their academic, cultural, and
personal lives. Through these services, we hope to increase the
number of Pacific Islanders in higher education.
Mentoring
Mentors meet with each student 3 times a quarter for counseling
sessions providing academic support as needed, but will focus
primarily on helping their students understand and deal with the
other issues that are affecting their academic life.
In
order to effectively document and follow up on students, as well as
to evaluate our project PIER counselors collect counseling forms
from each student at the end of each counseling session.
After each counseling session, the student and the PIER
advisor both fill out a PIER Mentoring Session form.
Students are also asked to fill out a tracking packet which
includes class information, extracurricular activities, grades,
completed classes, and other essential information.
PIER uses the packets to monitor the students' progress
as well as raise awareness among the students of the importance
of setting and achieving academic goals, and to empower the students
to diagnose and resolve their own problems so that they may become
more self-reliant.
Our
tutors and mentors are all college students trained to address
students' needs and are capable of helping in all academic
subjects. During tutoring sessions
PIER tutors divide students into groups
according to academic subjects, and assigns each group a tutor.
Each student
will come prepared for tutorial sessions with necessary homework,
textbooks, and any questions they may have.
Tutors are not
to give students answers, but should guide them in the proper
direction so that they may learn how to resolve problems,
study, and achieve their goals on their own.
Tutors and mentors will hold academic workshops in order to
develop students' study skills, college workshops to familiarize them
with the college application process. Cultural workshops
will also be held that will allow students to discuss and critically
address the issues which most affect their lives as high school
students and members of the Pacific Islander community, so that they
feel empowered to take the necessary action on these issues.
UCLA visitations
In order to promote the advantages of higher education and to give our
students a full sense of what college is truly like we organize fieldtrips to
the UCLA campus.
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Annual Retreat
At the end of the year we take the students on a retreat to the San
Bernardino Mountains.
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