THREE PILLARS

Education

Schools can serve as safe havens and escapes from negative home environments and dangerous influences. Students who succeed in school are less likely to participate in negative, at-risk behavior, to include, affiliating with or joining gangs.

Community Building

Community Building is a cornerstone and critical foundation for our coalition. This foundation is very important for the purpose of encouraging collaboration, building relationships, inviting and encouraging civic participation, as well as, addressing issues of diversity, which includes cultural differences, language and socioeconomic barriers.

Resources

A critical and important component, while it is felt that all components are equally important to our action plan, the Coalition agrees that Resources, are vital to providing the front line support to our families, youth, and young adults.  These resources include the wide array of both services and wholesome youth activities.

Growing Roses in Concrete

• Is the glass half empty or is the glass half full?
• The condition in which our youth are being raised is not natural their conditions are created and the conditions can be changed.
• Youth that have witnessed or have been the victim of violence go to school. Very little attention at school is given to their humanity.
• When we intervene, we can create a school to college pipeline. ​

Maya Angelou: Do you understand how important you are, to me, to us, to our community!