Combating crime and violence amongst at risk and adolescent youth by way of life skills, job training & community service.
The I Want 2 Work! Program
Empowering At-Risk Youth in Columbus, Ohio
The I Want 2 Work! Program is a summer program initiative that was created to help alter crime and prevent violence among at-risk and adolescent youth in Columbus, Ohio.
The program's main objective is to provide children from economically challenged areas of the city with the opportunity to expand their horizons, while also learning valuable life skills, and receiving job training.
The Daily obstacles of economically challenged environments?
TRUTHS, FACTS, And REALITY
Children have no control over their circumstances and of course cannot take themselves out of high-risk environments. They cannot control how their parents act or treat them or where they choose to live. Therefore, they cannot control what they witness with relation to crime or domestic abuse, violence, or substance use. Sadly, children may not feel safe in their environments, neighborhoods, or with their own families. They may feel peer pressure to participate in substance abuse and/or crimes themselves. Of course, since they have never lived or been in secure, safe environments, then they come to believe that these situations are the normal way of life for everyone. They never know when violence will affect their own family or take the life of a friend or family member. “They may join gangs or commit crimes in order to fit in, prevent others from viewing them as weak, or to counteract feelings of powerlessness, thus perpetuating the cycle of violence and increasing their risk of incarceration.
Through the use of job training, life skills, and community service work, The I Want 2 Work! Program intends to alter Criminal Thinking, and the use of Criminal Violence among Adolescent & At-risk youth between the ages of 12-15 who are currently living within economically challenged areas of the city of Columbus, Ohio.
Who will Benefit Directly from this Program
Program Participants/Adolescent & At Risk Youth
Program Participants/Adolescent & At Risk Youth
Program Participants/Adolescent & At Risk Youth
Each At-Risk Youth who participates in the I Want 2 Work! Program will be given approximately one $25 Amazon or Walmart gift card for every hour of Program Service they complete.
Program Mentors/Local Residents
Program Participants/Adolescent & At Risk Youth
Program Participants/Adolescent & At Risk Youth
Each program mentor shall have the opportunity to receive a total of seventy-two (72) $25 Walmart or Amazon gift cards, and twenty-four (24) $50 gas cards over the duration of the summer valued at three thousand dollars ($3,000).
Local Residents who are in need of food assistance
Local Residents who are in need of food assistance
Local Residents who are in need of food assistance
Each of the 100 qualifying households that are chosen by the program shall receive approximately ninety-six (96) Dinner & Breakfast meals over the course of the summer valued at one thousand four hundred and forty dollars ($1,440)
Local Restaurant Owners and Local Food Vendors
Local Residents who are in need of food assistance
Local Residents who are in need of food assistance
On each of the 24 program operating days, one local restaurant or local food vendor will be chosen to prepare dinner meals for that days dinner drop-offs.
On each operating program day, four hundred (400) Dinner meals will be purchased by the program and then delivered to each pre-qualified household that is registered with the program.
Approximately three thousand dollars ($3,000) in meals will be purchased from each chosen local restaurant or local food vendor. 24 local restaurants or local food vendors will be chosen over the course of the summer valued at three thousand dollars ($3,000) each purchase.
Life Skills, Community Service, & Job Training
Over the course of the entire summer, every Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, this program will sponsor and mentor 40 adolescent/At Risk children who are growing up in economically challenged areas of the city for Three days each week during the entire summer for up to 3 hours on each program day.
Thats Three days out of the week during the entire summer for three hours each day that each of the programs' 40 at risk youth will not be subject to committing, participating in, or being the victim of crime.
Three days out of the week during the entire summer that each of the programs' 40 at risk youth will be learning work ethics and life skills that will help them to transition into adulthood while also helping them to become better assets for their communities, and productive members within their societies.
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The Overall Concept Of The i Want 2 Work! Program
We are attempting to establish at least four (4) program site locations within the City of Columbus, Ohio.
With the development of Four program site locations within the City of Columbus, Ohio, The I Want 2 Work program will have the full ability to accommodate one hundred and sixty (160) adolescent and/or At-RiskYouth from the time they are the of age 12, until the time that they are 15, turning 16 years of age.
One of the major task of The I Want 2 Work! Program is instill a sense of Job training and Basic work ethics into each and every Program Participants that partakes in The I Want 2 Work! Program.
It is with are hopes that by donig so, that by the time a Participant is about transition from the age 15 years of age to the age 16, they will be fully capable of entering the local work field with the knowledge of how to maneuver within a place of business and a understanding of how to communicate and engage with their peers at their selected place of employment.
Join The i Want 2 Work program!
Together, we can make a lasting impact. Help us create a better future for At-risk and Adolescent Youth who reside here within Columbus. Ohio by joining The i want 2 work summer program initiative.
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