2016 First Annual Scholarship Dinner(Click to view pictures from last year's event)
Special Invite to Awesome POP Scholarship Banquet on Sunday, July 30th (4p-7p) at the Avalon Manor
The 2nd Annual POP Scholarship Banquet Dinner on Sunday, July 30th at the Avalon from 4p-7p.
Emcee for the Evening:
Host Darryll King (FM Gospel 102.3/106.3)
Darryll King is one of the most respected hosts across America as evidenced by her recent accomplishments of receiving “The Gospel Announcer of the Year” honors from the National Stellar Awards in 2004. She was also nominated for the Chicago Hip-Hop Announcer of the Year in 2004. Darryll was also a recipient for the Sisters in the Spirit award in 2005. Darryll was the host of Different Drummers on CBS Television Network for 2 and a half years and she hosts her own television show on Chicago Cable Network Channel 25 entitled The Cutting Edge with Darryll King since 1998. You many find Darryll hosting numerous events in and around the Chicago land area.
Darryll King is intelligent, hard working and energetic, but most of all, she loves the Lord.
Darryll King is the host on two Crawford Broadcasting Stations, WYCA 102.3 FM and WSRB 106.3 FM. The King’s Highway is a four-hour power and praise packed music show with moments of ministry. The show can be heard on WYCA 102.3 FM Monday through Friday from 6:00am to 10:00am and is one of the most listened-to morning drive time shows in the Chicagoland area. The Joy Machine is heard on 106.3 FM Every Sunday from 9am – 12pm
Featured Speakers:
We are proud to have Mayor Karen Freeman-Wilson, and Methodist CEO Raymond Grady as two of our evenings presenters.
Keynote Speaker:
Dr. Robert Gore who is the Founder of Kings Against Violence Initiative (KAVI). This is an intense 28-week Brooklyn Hospital, school and community violence intervention prevention and empowerment program targeting teens that have been injured as a result of violence or at risk for recurrent violent injuries/violent acts.
Dr Gore is an attending physician and clinical assistant professor at Kings County Hospital – SUNY Downstate Department of Emergency Medicine in Brooklyn, NY. After finishing his undergraduate studies at Morehouse College in Atlanta, GA, he then went on to the State University of New York at Buffalo for medical school after which he completed his emergency medicine residency training at Cook County Hospital in Chicago, where he was chief resident.
Dr. Gore was the assistant program director for the Kings County-SUNY Downstate Emergency Medicine Residency Program (the largest Emergency Medicine training program in the U.S.) for four years. He is currently the founder and executive director of the KAVI (Kings Against Violence Initiative), a hospital, school and community based youth violence intervention prevention and empowerment program targeting teens that have been injured as a result of violence or at risk for violent and recurrent violent injury.
He is the founder and director of the Minority Medical Student Emergency Medicine (MMSEM) Summer Fellowship, which is a mentoring and enrichment program for under-represented minorities interested in Emergency Medicine with a focus on project development.
Dr. Gore has lectured around the U.S, the Caribbean, South America and Asia and has worked in East Africa, Haiti and South America. Since 2008 he has been working as a consultant for Clinique Espérance et Vie in Terrier Rouge (Northern Haiti) and working towards establishing a regional health care system in the northern part of Haiti. He is on the advisory board for EMEDEX International, a non-profit organization dedicated to the global promotion and advancement of emergency medicine, disaster management and public health.
Special Award Recipients include:
Rev. Sieon Roberts (Pastor New Hope)
Rev. Roberts was born and raised in Gary, IN and is the oldest of three children of Evangelist Delpha Roberts and the grandson of the late Rev. Clarence Lobdell. He received his formal education in the Gary Community School Corporation, graduating from Wirt High School. Pastor Roberts and his loving wife, Anita, have been blessed with four children.
He confessed hope in Christ, at an early age, and began preaching at the age of 18. His passion for preaching is evident, as he delivers the word of God, with fervor. He experienced heart- wrenching disappointments and challenges early in life, but realized that God used these experiences to serve as character building blocks while developing his ministry.
Rev. Sieon C. Roberts, Sr., is currently the pastor of New Hope Missionary Baptist Church, in Gary, Indiana. He has a contagious spirit of generosity that flows through every facet of his ministry. His past and present accomplishments are numerous. He is a member of the Baptist Ministers’ Conference of Gary and Vicinity. During the 35th Annual Fall Seminar, sponsored by the Ministers’ Conference, he was the youngest pastor in the Ministers’ Conference and Pastor Robert’s level of leadership, spiritual growth and knowledge, was displayed when he served as an instructor.
He is the author of two books “Panting After His Presence” and “Teen Rocks”. Pastor Roberts also was part of history in the making, by co-hosting a gospel celebration for Mayor Karen Freeman-Wilson, the 1st female, African American Mayor in the state of Indiana. On January 1, 2014, Pastor Roberts launched Sieon Roberts Ministries (SRM). SRM is a faith-based community organization designed to liberate the lives of individuals suffering from socio- economic oppression. The limited liability corporation is strategically partnered with the non- for-profit Liberation Foundation to best impact urban communities across the country, and is based in Northwest Indiana.
Chareice White (ECIER Foundation)
Chareice White is the owner of Reice Communications a full service strategic partnership community relations company.
She served as Director of Government, Community and Public Relations and a lobbyist for Majestic Star Casino and Hotel (Gary, Indiana) and Fitzgeralds Casino Hotel (Tunica, Mississippi) and responsible for government and public relations, corporate and local sponsorship, charitable and inkind donations and corporate community events.
White, is Chairman of the Board and President of ECIER Foundation which provides a structured educational program encouraging and teaching youth to become innovative entrepreneurs. Under the direction of White the foundation has provided scholarships for high school seniors.
She is very active in the community: integral board member for South Shore Convention and Visitors Authority (Secretary); Boys & Girls Clubs of Northwest Indiana, Methodist Hospital Foundation and the Gary Chamber of Commerce.
White's community service and leadership has been acknowledged nationally with prestigious awards: 2012 Influential Woman for Service & Tourism of Northwest Indiana, 2012 Influential Woman of the Year for Northwest Indiana, Professional of the Year by the South Shore Convention and Visitors Bureau, and much more.
Vondale Singleton (Chicago CHAMPS Mentoring Program)
Vondale Eugene Singleton Sr. was born on the Southside of Chicago. After overcoming the negative influences of the Ida B. Wells Housing projects he became a first generation college student earning his Bachelors of Science Degree in Elementary Education and his Master’s Degree in Marital and Family Therapy from Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, OK. Over the past decade he has worked in primary, secondary, and higher education, as both a teacher and administrator. He believes that “salvation plus education is an unbeatable combination.” While serving as an assistant principal, of KIPP Tulsa, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, under the Holy Spirit’s leading, he started a Male Mentoring program called C.H.A.M.P.S. (Culturally Helping and Making Positive Success) that he ported back into Chicago at Gary Comer College Prep. They created a film that made national headlines and was featured at the White House with President Obama, as an Official Selection of the 2nd Annual White House Student Film Festival.
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In addition, to our distinguished awardees, the event will recognize our SAVE presidents from NWI Schools and graduating seniors from our Health Professions Enrichment Program entering college with degrees in Medicine or Nursing will receive our Health Merit Scholarship.
Entertainment provided by the Devin Dove 5-piece Band and multiple student performers.
Please plan on attending and forward to colleagues! All proceeds will be donated to our efforts to stem Youth Violence with our POP Student Against Violence Everywhere (SAVE) Programs and our Health Merit Scholarships. See below for Tickets and SPONSORSHIP opportunities!
