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September is Emergency Preparedness Month

By Nicki Sanders | Sep 11, 2015 | Comments Off on September is Emergency Preparedness Month

  We will NEVER forget 9/11/01 Would you be ready if there were an emergency in your city? Tornado? Snowstorm? Earthquake? Chemical Emergency? Bioterrorism?   September is National Preparedness Month. Throughout September there will be activities across the country to promote emergency preparedness. This is the time to get prepared for any emergency that could […]

These 3 Words by Nicki Sanders

By Nicki Sanders | Sep 9, 2015 | Comments Off on These 3 Words by Nicki Sanders

 These 3 Words by Nicki Sanders Nicki Sanders, The Packaged For Success Coach, is an experienced trainer, group facilitator, and program manager. She has packaged her Masters of Social Work degree and over 15 years of work experience into Packaged For Success, a training and professional development company. Packaged For Success provides career coaching to […]

Eat To Live

By Nicki Sanders | Sep 8, 2015 | Comments Off on Eat To Live

  If you know me well then you’ve heard me say these two things about my personal diet: (1) I have the eating habits (or taste buds) of the average 5 year old (2) I eat to live, I don’t live to eat   I am not a “foodie”. I am one of the pickiest […]

Celebrate the American Workforce on Labor Day

By Nicki Sanders | Sep 7, 2015 | Comments Off on Celebrate the American Workforce on Labor Day

  Labor – (1): human activity that provides the goods or services in an economy (2): the services performed by workers for wages as distinguished from those rendered by entrepreneurs for profits   Labor Day – the first Monday in September, is a creation of the labor movement and is dedicated to the social and […]

Master Your Mind

By Nicki Sanders | Sep 2, 2015 | Comments Off on Master Your Mind

  Our thoughts are powerful. Thoughts lead to actions and behaviors. What we think about we become. What we focus on grows – positive or negative. Nurture your mind with positive thoughts and experiences. Kick negativity to the curb and watch amazing things and people connect to you.   MINDSET is as important as skill […]

Add More To Increase Economic Empowerment

By Nicki Sanders | Aug 31, 2015 | Comments Off on Add More To Increase Economic Empowerment

  Question of the Day: Can we achieve social justice without economic empowerment? Although there has been a huge push for teaching financial literacy, many social service programs teach clients to manage poverty and not eliminate it.  How do we help people change their socio-economic status?  Of course, the answers are numerous, but I think […]

Gentrification and Urban Youth…What’s Next?

By Nicki Sanders | Aug 28, 2015 | Comments Off on Gentrification and Urban Youth…What’s Next?

  If you’ve lived in Washington, DC (or any other urban city) you have seen: • Elementary school students selling candy or wrapping paper • Youth with buckets at the red light collecting funds for band uniforms • Teens at the metro station playing go-go music on buckets • A car wash hosted by high […]

I Want You to Work to Learn and to Earn

By Nicki Sanders | Aug 26, 2015 | Comments Off on I Want You to Work to Learn and to Earn

  Exposure = the condition of being presented to view or made known Mayor Marion Barry was praised for launching the Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP) in Washington, DC and providing gainful summer employment to thousands of teens. My first job SYEP job was at an academic summer camp on the campus of American University. […]

Welcome Back To Campus

By Nicki Sanders | Aug 24, 2015 | Comments Off on Welcome Back To Campus

  This is the week head back home – back into the classroom at Trinity Washington University. Classes begin on Wednesday.   To welcome you back to campus I want to revisit a few blog posts to help you get the semester started off on the right foot so that you can finish strong.   […]