PRINCETON-BLAIRSTOWN CENTER INC
13 Roszel Road 109B, Princeton, NJ 08540 www.princetonblairstown.org

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Organizations Filed Purposes: Princeton-Blairstown Center empowers young people, primarily from under-resourced communities, to strengthen their social-emotional skills through experiential, environmental, and adventure-based programming. Social Emotional Learning (SEL) includes five core competencies: self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision-making. Acquiring these skills will enable Princeton-Blairstown Center participants to change their communities and the world.

Princeton-Blairstown Center empowers young people, primarily from under-resourced communities, to strengthen their social-emotional skills through experiential, environmental, and adventure-based programming.

Blairstown Campus Programs:During a typical year, groups of students and their chaperones come from across the Mid-Atlantic region to stay at PBCs 268-acre Blairstown Campus in the northwest corner of New Jersey near the Delaware Water Gap for one to five days. These students come from public schools, independent schools, and community-based organizations. Most of these organizations provide services to students from low-income communities who face numerous challenges such as poverty, low-performing schools, high-crime neighborhoods, food insecurity, single adult households, court-involved youth, or youth in foster care. The Blairstown Campus serves as an extension of their school or community organization a place where they can learn critical 21st Century skills that can be taken back to their schools,families, and communities. These trips are organized by the administration or faculty of the visiting school or organization expressly for the purpose of obtaining instruction in non-cognitive skills using PBCs social and emotional learning (SEL) curriculum. The SEL skills that PBC teaches can include verbal and non-verbal communication, leadership, cooperation, team-building, problem solving, healthy risk-taking, empathy, and interpersonal skills; which skills are focused on depends on the needs of the individual student groups. During their time at PBC, students work in small groups with carefully trained instructors and spend most of the day in instructional activities, with time for meals, sleep, and personal reflection/journal writing. During a typical year, the Center serves between 7,500 and 8,000 students and leaders/chaperones. Because of the global COVID-19 pandemic, the Centers Board of Trustees suspended in-person programming in March of 2020. During late winter and early spring, the Centers staff focused on curriculum development and the creation of weekly SEL lesson plans and environmental education videos to share with partners and the public. From late spring until year-end, the Centers staff produced virtual programming for partners including virtual trips to the Center, Virtual Summer Bridge programming, virtual after school programming, and virtual orientation programs. Throughout the summer and fall, Center staff ran a successful Family Camp program and a variety of day programs on and off Campus.

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