Supporting Kids, Involving Parents
Goal: To create opportunities for engagement with youth’s families, increase youth’s capacity to excel academically, and provide youth mentoring as a tool for navigating everyday life.
Mission: To support at-promise youth by offering mentoring and tutoring services in our community where there are high crime rates, high poverty levels, areas that are home to youth who are academically needy, and have a high rate of single parent homes. To promote the importance of mom, dad, or caretaker staying involved in their child’s growth. To prevent youth recidivism and or divert them from becoming involved in the juvenile justice system.
Initiative: By supporting kids and involving parents in our community we can give them the tools they need to become more involved, invested, and committed in their children’s lives.
Present Efforts Include: Incarcerated fathers at the Marion County Jail get the tools they need to become more involved, responsible, and committed in the lives of their children. This is motivation for them to get out and stay out of jail.
- Supporting youth who are already involved in the DJJ program, with a focus on those who are already parents by providing 24/7 Dad curriculum and mentoring.
- Offering At-Promise youth from 5-17 years of age academic tutoring and mentoring services.
- Hosting Barbershop talks to discuss fatherhood, parenting, as well as other topics.
- Providing educational materials for ways moms, dads, and caregivers can stay involved on social media.