Mission

The Brotherhood is an interdepartmental, interdivisional, multicultural, multigenerational wellness retention initiative created to give CCSU students opportunities to actively take responsibility for leading and coordination wellness activities and address health and educational disparities that negatively impact the success of male student populations.

Our goal is to ensure that students participate in proactive activities aimed at understanding and addressing issues affecting male student populations. The Brotherhood will seek to collaborate and engage others, both inside and outside the CCSU community, who are willing to establish partnerships that promote healthy masculinity.

It is our mission to maximize the wellness potential of college men by connecting male students to co-curricular and curricular activities, enhancing the student experience by fostering a sense of belonging (quality of life), and helping students successfully persist until degree completion.

Framework

We believe male experiences are unique and male populations are deserving of specialized and gender competent care and resources. We believe in a gender responsive framework that promotes service proficiencies that consider all areas impacting male development, socialization, engagement, service delivery, and how care is marketed to men. We believe in a positive and strength-based approach that celebrates the male experience by affirming, respecting, and embraces the human potential birthed into every male-being.

"It is our aim to build community and connect Central male students with support services and resources on campus and within the larger community".

Goals

• Educate the public about the health needs of student populations and the wellness disparities negatively impacting them, with a focus on boys and men.
• Promote the development of gender-responsive services and the provision of gender-competent care to male populations.
• Recruit and mobilize male students to participate in health promotion activities.
• Collaborate with community partners to promote male wellness activities.