Director of Community Engagement Center gives overview of services and programs offered while discussing building’s history and more.
A few of the women involved in the current and previous cohorts of the UMBrella Coaching Program recently signed up for a group tour of UMB’s new Community Engagement Center (CEC). It was a great opportunity for them to meet in person as the program’s activities for the past two years have been mostly virtual due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The CEC’s director, Tyrone Roper, MSW, led the tour, sharing a bit of the building’s history and an in-depth overview of the CEC’s mission to support its neighbors. The group got a glimpse of the three floors of space and all the center has to offer to the community, including support services, access to technology, and spoken-word sessions for youth, to name a few.
The CEC tour will be an added activity for future program cohorts to learn more about UMB’s investment in West Baltimore.
For more information on the UMBrella Coaching Program, go to umaryland.edu/umbrella/umbrella-coaching-program/.
Applications for Cohort 5 of the UMBrella Coaching Program will open in June 2022.
(In photo, left to right: Tyrone Roper, CEC director; Eileen Eldridge, cohort 3; Everly Brown, cohort 1; Elisa Medina, Human Resources; Paulette Harris-Gross, cohort 2; Davene Hinton, cohort 4; Kenya Battle, cohort 1; Aisha Samples, cohort 4)