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YOUTH PROGRAMS

YOUTH PROGRAMS . By: Briana Boyd. introduction.

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YOUTH PROGRAMS

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  1. YOUTH PROGRAMS By: Briana Boyd

  2. introduction • Hello, everyone my name is Briana Boyd. Today I am going to be talking to about how the City of Cincinnati should have more youth programs. Have you ever experienced teens out and about looking up to no good, if they had places to go then they may not get into too much if any trouble at all.

  3. Research: M.O.R.E PROGRAM • One program that is success is MORE (Men Organized, Respectful & Educated) • How does it work? • They give the young men of the group tips on how to stay or get on the right path. • Homework & Class work help • Self improving activities & workshops • Field trips • What does it offer? • Academic support (homework & Class work, Tutoring) • Social skills development • College and career awareness • Financial Literacy • Good citizenship • Good health & wellness • What are the goals 4 this program? • Academic Achievement (good grades, higher graduation rate) • Promotion rates • College readiness(ACT scores/SAT scores)

  4. NYC Boasts $127 Million Black, Latino Youth • Little history/stats of how it got started! • The Billionaire mayo is even backing the 127 million plan with some of his own money. • The Poverty rate is 50% higher for Blacks and Latinos than Whites and Asian men. • Their unemployment rate is 60% higher. • They are two times more likely not to graduate from high school. • 90% of both young murder victims and suspects are Blacks & Latinos. • Why They Got The Program Started! • They saw a lot of progress in the fronts in the city improve on the graduation rates, lower incarceration rates. • They wanted the same thing for the Blacks and Latinos of New York City. • Black and Latino men are over represented in systems of negative outcomes like jail and prisons and underrepresented among high school graduates and college-going students. • How Does It Work? • They have literacy training that is assisting them to be ready for the GED course

  5. CURFEWS FOR TEENS • A curfew allows less time to get in trouble with gangs, alcohols, drugs things like that, said one teen. • Curfew lower the number of teens involved in crimes. • From 1995 to 1999, the number of minors arrested for violent crime dropped 23 percent. • Curfews help parents and teens. Some teens don’t listen to their parents. Public curfew gives parents some extra help. They make sure teens are back at home at a certain time. • Experts credit public curfews for the drop in crime.

  6. My Collaboration – Coordinator of MORE at Shroder • Mr. Johnson big brother/mentor says “that they are all changing their attitudes for the better and for the first quarter 13 out of 20 have a good chance of making honor roll”. He also says that “the city wide program is helping increase academic change in African American males from negative to positive.”

  7. L.W.W.B.G (Little Women With Big Goals)

  8. My Plan • My plan is to start a youth group for the young women of CPS (Cincinnati Public Schools), just like the one for the young men. I feel that that would empower many of the girls that go to cps schools. Girls go through a lot going to public schools ex: bullying, peer pressure, (sex. drugs, and fitting in, boys,). So I think that having a girl youth program would help a lot! The goal would be to help young women find the path to success without going down the wrong path or try to get them on the right one. I know the goal will be achieved when you see a change in the girls in their school work/homework when they start carrying themselves in different way. I would see if there are grants of some sort that could be used for this group. I would go to the school board and see what they could do to help, even the superintendent to she if she could give advice or even help.

  9. BLUEPRINT • In this program, I am trying to accomplish many things. I’m trying to get young African American girls to get on the right track with school and get them away from the wrong things like peer pressure (sex, drugs, alcohol, boys, fitting in.) I’m waiting to raise the graduation rates in the CPS school system for African American girls. In the program we will do self-empowerment workshops and self-stem improvement classes. We will teach them they ways of the “real world”. Have college readiness classes to prepare them for college if they chose to go. This program will run for the duration of the school year for the seniors that will be in the program and last 11 weeks for any freshmen, sophomores, juniors,. By the end of this program, the young ladies that have participated will gain a lot of knowledge of different things and the seniors that took part will graduate and be ready to take life by the horns.

  10. WORK CITED • "ARE PUBLIC CURFEW FAIR?" SIRS. Web. 07 Oct. 2011. <http://ars.sirs.com/discoverer.html>. • "Going The Distance: Mentoring Program Focuses On Running, Relationships: NPR." NPR: National Public Radio: News & Analysis, World, US, Music & Arts: NPR. Web. 07 Oct. 2011. <http://www.npr.org/2011/06/06/137003633/mentoring-program-goes-the-distance-focuses-on-running-and-relationship>. • "NYC Boasts $127 Million For Black, Latino Youth: NPR." NPR: National Public Radio: News & Analysis, World, US, Music & Arts: NPR. Web. 07 Oct. 2011. <http://www.npr.org/2011/08/09/139241465/nyc-boasts-127-million-for-black-latino-youth>. • "We Need MORE." Cincinnati Public Schools. Cincinnati Public Schools. Web. <http://www.cps-k12.org/>.

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