Southeast Asian Student Coalition Summer Institute (SASC SI)

One of the ways in which SASC plans to address the problems that are listed above, is through the SASC SI summer program. SASC SI is a five day, four night program where we recruit Southeast Asian high school youth throughout California and if we have enough funds, outside of California, to come to the University of California, Berkeley. The youth are then put into mentor-mentee groups, where each group consists of four high school youth and two mentors. Each mentor-mentee group will participate in workshops and activities where they will learn about the Viet Nam War, the wars in Southeast Asia, and how this contributes to their Southeast Asian identity. Additionally, we promote the awareness of Southeast Asian issues, critical thinking, community building, self discovery, self expression, and the access to higher education. The SASC family has grown enormously since the first SASC SI program in 2002 and with this growth we provide our youth and our community a constant support system. Recurrently, former SASC SI mentees and other SASC SI participants would come back to SASC and give back to SASC what it has given to them by assisting in the next SASC SI program.