Who are we?
The Brother's Keeper Program is an initiative facilitated by guidance counselor Ray Piagentini. Operating in accordance with the servant leadership model our goal is to assist the disenfranchised with food, clothing, and basic necessities. The RIPPLE project, (Reaching Inside Providing Positive Leadership In Education) seeks to strengthen connections with the Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota people of South Dakota. Interested corporations, business, or private citizens, can show their support through donations and contributions to the program.
The Brothers Keeper Program and its civil rights work has been featured in numerous print and media publications. Their work has been featured in the Chicago SUN-Times, The Chicago Tribune, and the Daily Herald. Students have appeared on various radio programs and an appearance on CLTV a local high school sports program with Tribune Columnist, Bob Sakomoto. Articles describing their work have appeared in the American School Counselor Association Journal, Northeastern Illinois UNIVERSITY E-Zine and campus publications as well as in T.E.A.M. publications.
Our documentary, currently a 48 minute work-on-progress, ( our goal is an 80 minute documentary) has been show at numerous venues including the Native American Film Festival in Chicago and had received positive reviews. The goal of the documentary project is to create an awareness about the current conditions facing indigenous children and their plight on the reservation.
There are many people on the reservations facing huge obstacles, but who do a great job each day in caring for and educating Native children. Our additional goals are to destroy stereotypes and have a complete cultural immersion and exchange of ideas. We want to create a RIPPLE EFFECT that will establish a critical mass to assist our most precious resources, our children, the children of all races.
The Brothers Keeper Program and its civil rights work has been featured in numerous print and media publications. Their work has been featured in the Chicago SUN-Times, The Chicago Tribune, and the Daily Herald. Students have appeared on various radio programs and an appearance on CLTV a local high school sports program with Tribune Columnist, Bob Sakomoto. Articles describing their work have appeared in the American School Counselor Association Journal, Northeastern Illinois UNIVERSITY E-Zine and campus publications as well as in T.E.A.M. publications.
Our documentary, currently a 48 minute work-on-progress, ( our goal is an 80 minute documentary) has been show at numerous venues including the Native American Film Festival in Chicago and had received positive reviews. The goal of the documentary project is to create an awareness about the current conditions facing indigenous children and their plight on the reservation.
There are many people on the reservations facing huge obstacles, but who do a great job each day in caring for and educating Native children. Our additional goals are to destroy stereotypes and have a complete cultural immersion and exchange of ideas. We want to create a RIPPLE EFFECT that will establish a critical mass to assist our most precious resources, our children, the children of all races.