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Our community partner, South Bay Families Connected, offers our families a variety of youth wellness resources. For Mental Health Awareness Month, we feature their resource pages covering trending youth wellness topics on the minds of parents and caregivers:

• Supporting healthy social media and screen time management
• Recognizing and supporting mental health challenges
• Understanding and managing stress and anxiety
• Helping youth build healthy relationships and foster empathy and compassion
• Practicing mindful parenting

Visit our own Da Vinci Families Connected page for more youth wellness resources from Da Vinci Schools and SBFC.

Hello Connect H.S. students!

Are you interested in taking El Camino College courses this Summer? The El Camino schedule of classes for Summer 2023 has officially been released and registration opens in May. You can view the online schedule of classes by visiting www.elcamino.edu/schedule.

If you would like to sign up for classes or explore what classes are available to you as a dual enrolled high school student, please set up a meeting with your counselor! You can stop by the counseling office or set up a meeting via email.

Thank you,

Connect High Counseling Team

Last chance to enter the raffle to win five free group tennis lessons with a professional coach! Lessons will be every Monday from May 1^st to June 5^th except Memorial Day. We’ll provide tennis racquets and balls, come ready to play. Email dvwolvestennis@gmail.com before Thursday at 11:59PM to enter!

Interested in a fun after school activity? The Da Vinci Tennis Club is offering free group tennis lessons with a professional coach to ten students! Lessons will be every Monday from May 1^st to June 5^th except Memorial Day. We’ll provide tennis racquets and balls, come ready to play. Email dvwolvestennis@gmail.com to sign up!

Hello and welcome back from Spring break!

We would like to introduce the newest student-led club at DV Connect High School, DV Connect LIT (Literary Arts Magazine Club). Here is some information on how you can join! DV Connect Lit Flyer

DV Connect LIT is also currently accepting submissions for their May 2023 issue: Final Call For Submissions

DV students were invited to participate in a Youth & Young Adult Job Fair on April 19, 2023, from 9 am to 1 pm at El Camino College. Over 50 employers will be hiring that day.  The Southbay Workforce Investment Board is going to be providing DV with a bus to transport 50 students from the 201 N Douglas campus.

Please, only students serious student candidates apply. You MUST be:

• Be 16 – 24 years old
• Have a resume ready (Ideally they need to bring multiple copies with them to share)

If you are interested, please email your counselor or visit the Connect H.S. counseling office for the link to apply.

Questions? Speak with your counselor or email the Director of Real World Learning, Crissel Rodriguez at crodriguez@davincischools.org

Hello Connect H.S. students!

Afro LA is starting a youth book club. Their virtual kickoff is this Sunday, April 16th from 2-4 pm. All teens 9th-12th grade are welcome, regardless of where you live in the L.A. area or where/how you go to school.

Afro LA is a solutions-focused, data-driven and community-centered journalism for Los Angeles, told through the lens of the Black community, and with emphasis on how news may disparately impact L.A.’s most vulnerable groups and communities of color.

Thank you to all 9th, 10th, and 11th grade families who joined us for the College Info Family Meetings on Tuesday, March 21st and Wednesday, March 22nd! If you were unable to attend, please see below copies of the presentations with all of the information we covered:

9th and 10th grade college info slide deck

11th grade college info slide deck

11th grade college info recording

If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to your student’s counselor!

Thank you,

Da Vinci Connect H.S. Counseling Team

Greetings Da Vinci Connect HS Families!

The Connect HS Counselors will be hosting college information family meetings on Tuesday, March 21st for current 9th and 10th graders, and Wednesday, March 22nd for current 11th graders.

We will be discussing college pathway options, college readiness, and what students should be doing in high school to prepare for their post-high school college and career plans.

Please join us via Zoom on the following dates:

Families of 9th & 10th grade students:

Tuesday, March 21st from 5:30-6:30p

https://zoom.us/j/2451866707?pwd=OFZjeXhNN3d0RWZaL1IwRkROdWs1QT09

Families of 11th grade students:

Wednesday, March 22nd from 5:30-6:30p

https://zoom.us/j/8700340873

The meetings will also be recorded and posted on the blog the following day. We look forward to connecting and hope you can join us!

Thank you,

Da Vinci Connect HS Counseling Team