Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated – Zeta Phi Beta Sorority

GAΨZ Charter Members

Given the love of Zeta, love of community and realizing how both the Kankakee County, Illinois community and Zeta could mutually benefit from the other, in November 2019, five Kankakee-area Sorors began making inquiry of Zeta’s in Kankakee County to gauge interest in chartering a local chapter. Following several meetings and other organizational efforts, Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated – Gamma Alpha Psi Zeta Chapter was chartered in Kankakee, Illinois, in the year of the Zeta Phi Beta Centennial celebrations on December 15, 2020.

Charter members (front row, l-r): Alisha Clark-Ph.D., Adrianne Henderson, Dr. Adrienne Walker

(back row, l-r): Shanika Stevenson, Jasmine L. Jones .

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Principles of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc.

Scholarship

The Gamma Alpha Psi Zeta chapter will encourage scholarship by supporting and endorsing higher education.

Service

The Gamma Alpha Psi Zeta chapter will develop and engage in community service projects and events that complement established initiatives of Zeta.

Sisterhood

The Gamma Alpha Psi Zeta chapter will espouse sisterhood by strengthening relationships within our sorority, as well as with others interested in supporting sisterly fellowship .

Finer Womanhood

The Gamma Alpha Psi Zeta chapter will demonstrate finer womanhood through refined character, exemplary behavior and gracious dispositions.

Scholarship

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Finer Womanhood

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Gamma Alpha Psi Zeta Chapter Officers

President –
Alisha Clark, Ph.D.

First Vice President –
Shanika Stevenson

Second Vice President –
Adrianne Henderson

Secretary –
Roseanna Autman

Treasurer –
Shanita Pickens

Financial Secretary –
Annise Pitts

Parliamentarian –
Jasmine L. Jones

Chaplain –
Dr. Adrienne Walker

Community and Service Partnerships

Since chapter establishment on December 15, 2020, Gamma Alpha Psi Zeta has intentionally engaged in efforts to support the Kankakee County Community. Some of those engagement activities and community service events and partnerships are as follows:

Toys and coat drive in partnership with the Divine 9 and Kankakee County Community Services where 55 families were served with toy and coat donations valued in excess of $12,000
Gamma Alpha Psi Zeta partnered with Kankakee County Community Services to adopt two families for Christmas with provision of five gifts for each member of each family, as well as food items for each family’s Christmas dinner, and later established a formal partnership for recurring service partnerships
Coordinated supplies for the Citidel Nursing Home of Kankakee, and later established partnership with Citidel of Bourbonnais
Established partnership with Harbor House, a domestic abuse shelter in Kankakee County, for recurring service partnerships events
Established partnership with the Gift of God Street Church (homeless shelter) for recurring service and supplies provisions
Established a partnership with Bradley-Bourbonnais Community High School supporting career pathway programming

Zeta Career Academy

(In partnership with Kankakee County Community Services, Inc.)

The Zeta Career Academy (ZCA) is a career readiness initiative tailored to Kankakee County residents meeting either of the following criteria: (1) classified as qualified graduating 12 ^th-grade high school/HSE students (by May 31 of the current year); or (2) high school/high school equivalency (HSE) graduates within five years prior to the commencement of the current cohort.

ZCA caters to high school/HSE graduates aged up to 24 residing in Kankakee County, Illinois, who are either unemployed or underemployed. The program offers tailored workforce development services aimed at identifying career pathways based on individual personality, interests, skills, abilities, and work-related values. ZCA goes beyond personal interests by assisting in career pathway selection through skill development, including academic/vocational credential recommendations, considerations for quality of life expectations regarding compensation, geographical factors supporting pathway interests, and providing information on credentials and compensation ranges across local, surrounding, and national regions.

ZCA participants will receive service delivery via three mandatory consecutive weeks of workshop training that includes career pathway identification training, individual career pathway selection, and career pathway goal(s) identification to support selected career pathway option(s). Additional service provisions include a career pathway assessment tool, transportation, and food service during training sessions.

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ZCA 2024 Scholarship Recipients

ZCA 2024 Scholarship Recipients: Angela Terrell (Kankakee); Avery Jackson (St. Anne); Breanna Harold (Bourbonnais); Devin Terrell (Kankakee); Jaeden Clark (Bourbonnais); Jerika Harris (Kankakee); John Boice (Kankakee); Kavon Birk (Kankakee); Keon Thomas (Manteno); Leana Davenport (Kankakee); Lunden Brown (Bourbonnais); Tyran Bender (Bradley); Tyrice Bender (Bourbonnais).

ZCA 2023 Scholarship Recipients

ZCA 2023 Scholarship Recipients: Aleah Graham (Kankakee); Alexander Sheely (Bourbonnais); Gabrielle Dee (Kankakee); Giannah Boice (Kankakee); Jalen Townsend (St. Anne); James Stevenson, Jr. (Sun River Terrace); Jazmine Watson (Kankakee); Justin Pendleton (Bourbonnais); Kristian Autman (Kankakee); Madelyn Fisher (Kankakee); Sydney Ramsey (Kankakee); Tionna Pickens (Kankakee); Trinity Baines (Kankakee); Victoria Jones (Bourbonnais) .