Bastion Local Program
Bastion Nashville focuses on three key areas: Health, Youth Development and Employment.
Health: Programs that increase prevention and awareness. Programs include:
- Breast and Cervical Cancer awareness and screenings
- Free health screening workshops / clinics
- Health workshops for men, women and youths
- Counseling
Youth Development: Programs that increase self esteem enrich personal growth; improve academic performance and health and wellness. Programs include:
- Youth Development “Summer Camps”
- Leadership training
- Mentoring
- Counseling.
Employment Training Services: Being new to a country and also on the job market can be incredibly tough. Employers recognize that valuable employees are quickly becoming a rare commodity. Hiring the wrong people could ruin their company-while hiring effective, productive employees could cause business to soar. Bastion provides education, career counseling and workshops for immigrants on how to be successful in their careers. Training covers the following listed below.
- Listening to instructions
- Taking responsibility
- Taking initiative
- Being responsive
- Performing duties cheerfully
- Being dependable
- Staying healthy
- Becoming self-disciplined
- Exceeding expectations
- Giving credit to others


