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Director: Elizabeth Payamps
Welcome to the FUTURE NOW (formerly known as CUNY Catch) Program at Bronx Community College. FUTURE NOW is an educational program which helps young people create successful futures using what we know about learning and motivation. We believe everyone wants to be a success and our goal is to help young people learn how to become successful in legal, healthy ways.
FUTURE NOW believes that everyone is born with the potential for success, but may not know how to identify and use it. Our goal is to help young people learn how to uncover their hidden strengths, skills and talents and use them to create successful futures. We firmly believe that we get what we focus on. For this reason we emphasize the positives, knowing that it will eliminate most of the negatives. We help young people learn how to view their lives from an appreciative, strengths-based, positive perspective. In this manner our students learn how to create “success identities” in the classroom and in their communities.
Our program believes that everyone has a place (or places) in the community, and in the world-at-large, although many who feel alienated or marginalized do not necessarily share this belief. We strive to help young people learn how to “find their place(s)” and how to feel competent, confident and connected. The FUTURE NOW program is about young people’s minds (content), their heart (feelings) and their soul (meaning). It is a place for students to identify and develop their strengths, skills and talents and to plan and prepare for a successful future.
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