Urban Immersion Retreat Analysis

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The goals of all of our social programming are to challenge youth and young adults to look beyond commonly held misconceptions about marginalized communities so that they can #seeitdififerently. To this end, the Urban Immersion Retreat objectives, listed below, were chosen to equip students with the tools to look at the world around them and the social justice issues within Chicago (and their own communities) through a Lasallian vantage point upon which the Darst Center was founded on. This shared commitment to charity, inclusiveness, and respect for all, as well as faith in the presence of God, exist as the very foundation upon which we build all of our programs. It is through this lens that we have identified three post-retreat goals for

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