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As we focus on one community at a time, it will take the commitment of a community to redirect or youth.
Total Number of Homicides in Chicago in 2012: 514 Total Number of Homicides in Chicago in 2013: 368 Message from the founder Greetings and Thank you for taking the time to read
CALL TO ACTION
$1 one person drive We anticipate our mentoring program to start in March. Our Call To Action is asking each person who reads our proposal below to give $1 to this link > CALL TO ACTION! Don't forget to check out our programsHERE
our newsletter. We are a faith-base community organization and we like to be brief about our vision for the Grand Crossing Community and Riverdale, IL township. Our focus is youth development and making sure that our youth are guided from adolescent to adulthood. Our presence will insure a better life style for our youth with hope that our teens utilize the life skills that’s needed for them to be successful individuals.
With our efforts, we are inviting you to become a part
Proposal for
of our mission and goals as we develop a powerful team of caring adults that has a passion for our youth. It is
Stewards of the Block Pilot Program: Training in Youth Development and to Establish a Youth Leadership Council for The Chicago Greater Grand Crossing Community
their time, our youth, and as we look at the weekend news its majority negative publicity. We believe that we can not stop the negativity but we will balance the publicity that our teens are due to receive. Nevertheless, marching and talking about solutions to violence is not solutions in the making. We want to see organizations engage the communities, and political figures about job creation, which it is documented research that unsupervised time puts youth at risk for such negative outcomes as academic
Discovering and Using the Gift of Individuals
and behavioral problems, drug use, gang activity and other types of risky behavior On the positive side, young people benefit when they
Many communities have begun to act
spend time engaged in structured pursuits that offer
on a simple two-part pledge, which is
opportunities for positive interactions with adults and
basic to community building: Every person in this community is gifted, and every person in this community will contribute his/her gifts and resources.
peers, encourage them to contribute and take initiative, and contain challenging and engaging tasks that help them develop and apply new skills and personal talents. Therefore, what better structured pursuits like job creation to get them off the streets. We can all put our money where our mouth is as a community, and
Building Communities
because of sequesters and government uncertainty, it is
From the Inside Out
time to be a community force without gaps or any
By John P. Kretzmann
breaks in our programs because funding ran out.
& John L. McKnight
www.jacobsheritage.org
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