Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.

Programs

"Intelligence is the Torch of Wisdom."

Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. is a public service organization that aims to target areas outlined in our Five Point Program Thrust. Suffolk County Alumnae Chapter provides services and programs to the local community that are in line with the following areas that shape the mission Delta:

Educational Development

SCAC Programs:

• Scholarship Programs
• DELTA GEMS
• SEE Project
  
• Project ACE
• Regional Day of Service
• Juneteenth

Economic Development

SCAC Programs:

• Homeownership Workshops
• Adopt-a-family
• Financial Fortitude Workshops

Physical and Mental Health

SCAC Programs:

• Total Woman Challenge
• 50 Million Pound Challenge
• AIDS/HIV Workshops
• Breast Cancer Workshops
• Witness Walk for Breast Cancer

Political Awareness and Involvement

SCAC Programs:

• Meet the Candidates
• Voter Registration

International Awareness and Invovement

SCAC Programs:

• Save Darfur
• Mary Help of the Sick Mission in Africa

Delta GEMS

Delta GEMS (Growning and Empowering Myself Successfully) was created to “catch the dreams” of African American at-risk, adolescent girls aged 14-18, a mission embodied by Delta's own, Dr. Betty Shabazz. Delta GEMS provides the frame work to actualize those dreams through the performance of specific tasks that develop a “CAN DO” attitude. The goals for Delta GEMS are:

• To instill the need to excel academically;
• To provide tools that enable girls to sharpen and enhance their skills to achieve high levels of academic success;
• To assist girls in proper goal setting and planning for their futures—high school and beyond; and
• To create compassionate, caring, and community minded young women by actively involving them in service learning and community service opportunities.

SEE (Science & Everyday Experiences)

In 2002, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., and the Delta Research and Educational Foundation (DREF), in partnership with the AAAS Directorate for Education and Human Resources Programs, began developing and implementing the 5-year Science and Everyday Experiences (SEE) Initiative, an informal science education project funded by the National Science Foundation. The SEE Initiative helps parents and caregivers of African American elementary and middle school age children (K-8) develop effective ways to support children's informal science and mathematics learning experiences.

Suffolk County Alumnae Chapter is eager to share some of Delta's wonderful science experiences with you.To learn more about Delta's SEE project or to schedule a SEE event, please contact see@dstscac.org.

Click here to visit the Delta SEE website

Scholarships

Delta Sigma Theta is a public service sorority that establishes community service programs based on our Five Point Program Thrust. One area in our programmatic thrust is Educational Development, through which we annually award scholarships or awards to graduating high school seniors and a college student majoring in education.

Since we were chartered in 1989, we have awarded 88 scholarship/incentive awards to African American graduating high school seniors and 6 African American women majoring in education. In 1995, we established the Clevelandria Adams Memorial Scholarship in memory of beloved Soror Clevelandria Adams, who was committed to Delta Sigma Theta Sorority and education. In 1998, we added a new component to our Scholarship program, the “Progressive Scholarship.” Through this scholarship, Suffolk County Alumnae Chapter supports our Progressive Scholarship recipients throughout their four years of college. We are presently supporting four students in college and have distributed a total of $65,000 in scholarship and awards. In 2005, this scholarship was renamed the “Suffolk County Alumnae Chapter” Memorial Scholarship” in memory of our departed Sorors Janie Liotta and Wray Pash Peacock.