Each year Ninth Church of Christ, Scientist presents Good Citizenship Awards to students at the UCLA Community School located at the Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools complex in Koreatown. These awards, established in 2011, are given to a boy and a girl in the 8th grade at the school.
Since UCLA helped open the school in 2009, the Koreatown neighborhood’s college-attendance rate has more than doubled to 75 percent. The school serves grades kindergarten through 12th grade.
The purpose of the Good Citizenship Award is two-fold – to reward exemplary behavior and to offer an incentive to encourage students to complete their high school education.
To us, the qualities that make up good citizenship include humanity, honesty, affection, compassion, hope, faith, meekness and temperance. The students selected are those who best exemplify these qualities.
In 2014, Ninth Church began offering additional annual Good Citizenship Awards to two students from the Community Outreach & Opportunity Programs (CO-OP). The mission of CO-OP is to empower the individuals, children, and families in urban areas by exposing them to educational, financial, career, and health opportunities they might not normally receive.
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