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- 2026-10-23 02:23
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We need eight more if possible. It's full circle for me. I was a kid raised by a single mom, and we relied heavily on food boxes. So, the fact that I'm able to provide emergency food assistance to my community, the same community that I grew up in, and I get to do that now with students from the same high school that I graduated from, it's really amazing and an honor. My name is Rashida Saunders, and I am the Sunshine Division officer with the Portland Police Bureau. De La Salle North Catholic High School holds a special place in my heart. When I attended De La Salle many, many years ago, I worked at Portland Teachers Credit Union. Now it's OnPoint, and so that was my Corporate Work Study. They've had these partnerships with businesses all across Portland where kiddos get to show up to work and work one day a week to offset the cost of their tuition. So, you're helping students pay for tuition that their parents may not be able to afford, but you're also allowing them to have this work experience. How many boxes do you guys typically do? My name is Luis Rojas. I'm a senior at De La Salle North Catholic, and my Corporate Work Study program is Sunshine Division. It's probably my favorite Corporate Work Study program I've done. This is the most hands-on it's been. Afterwards, I always feel grateful that I was able to help and be able to give out the boxes of food, and it's just really nice. I think the fact that we have this program sets us apart. Come on in. Hey, what are you doing? So, my name is Zara, and I'm a junior at De La Salle North Catholic High School. Every Thursday I will go down to Sunshine, and I'll be there from 8:30 to 2:15, and I'll just do whatever task they ask of me for the day, like shopping or taking orders. I go there happy every day. I see the smiles on people's faces, and doing it feels rewarding. High five. High five. The cool thing about our program is we've created a mentorship program. So, each student that's assigned to the Sunshine Division is partnered with a police officer. And so, one day a week on their rotating Mondays, they get to go out in the community and see what it's like to be a police officer. When they told me we were doing the ride-alongs, I was like, what? I thought that was so crazy. I know no one else gets to really do stuff like this, and this is something I never saw myself doing either. I've gone to Evidence. I've gone to North Precinct and East Precinct. I've gone to Forensics. Yeah. I've talked to so many officers. I think it's easy for us as kids to be like, "I want to do this," and then it's hard for us to get experience in those actual fields, and they give us that opportunity. They have questions about policing, and they have questions about things they see in the media. And for us to be able to have those conversations one-on-one, it's an amazing experience for me. De La Salle changed the trajectory of my life. I grew up in a neighborhood where we didn't have a lot of resources. Being able to be around people that believed in me and that saw that I had something in me, and they were able to pull the brightness out of me, and so I am forever indebted to De La Salle. It's developed my human interaction skills more. I think I was really shy and to myself. They encouraged me to put myself out there and practice these skills because they're skills I'm going to need as an adult in the workforce. I think you'll like this part. I didn't think I'd have as much fun doing service as I have for Sunshine Division. I've gone to do service on my own time three different times. My hope, my vision for this program, for Sunshine Division and the Portland Police Bureau, is that we get more students. When you talk about reaching communities that don't have access to us, when you talk about building those bridges and building that rapport for courageous conversations, this is where it's happening. We are needed. It is necessary. And we are making a huge difference in our community.
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