STRONG ROOTS SAVING LIVES
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Mission Statement
To save lives, make our communities a safe place to live, help youths to tap into their natural abilities and talents and make the best choices in life, lead, instruct, advise, council, mentor, and redirect youth onto the right path of life that will allow them to live a productive life.
About This Cause
Our goal is to teach young adults and youths ages 15 - 19, basic life skills, respect towards all humanity, the importance of education, obeying the law and those in authority. We help urban-communities-high-risk youths that are deprived but have the ambition and motivation to advance and improve their lives through education and proper mentoring through our program. We also help to get gang members off of the streets and turn their lives around. We offer one on one counseling along with group counseling for troubled youths. We dedicate ourselves to educating young adults to the importance of respect for all of humanity, the importance of obeying those in authority (to include the law), and the importance of education. We then get jobs learning trades while getting paid (This program is very successful). We serve urban-high-risk-communities in which youths will either kill someone, be killed or go to prison within two years of time on the streets. We currently serve the greater Atlanta areas to also include Dekalb, Fulton, Decatur, Macon and Cobb counties. These areas have the highest and most violent crime rates. We know what it is going to take to make these communities a safer place to live. WE ARE MAKING A DIFFERENCE. As you know the violence, killings, drugs and crime is continuing to rise across the country and here in Georgia it is totally out of control. The killings in the streets must stop and we will make a difference! Our goal is to make this a national campaign! The urban community neighborhoods have become an unsafe place for people (especially youths) to live. As you know the violence, killings, drugs and crime is on the rise across the country and Atlanta GA is dealing with a crisis-of-homicides and the killings in the streets must stop! The urban community neighborhoods are quickly becoming an unsafe place for people (especially youths) to live. youth violence is a complex social problem that requires a multifaceted response. Gang presence and violence continues to plague our cities. Dysfunctional families, undisciplined youth, lack of education and opportunities are intertwined with gang violence, substance abuse, trauma, mental health issues, and the availability of guns. A continuum of care to address the fundamental causes of violence (not just the symptoms) is needed. In addition, neighborhood safety concerns must be addressed with a didactic strategic plan in place and initiated. With our presence and the presence of other organization partners we can make a difference (the streets talk). All offenders must be held accountable for their actions. We developed a strategic comprehensive plan that will include elements of prevention, intervention, education, redirection, and mentoring. We also have an aggressive proactive and productive street outreach team that goes into the toughest urban communities to engage youth and families, network with community leaders, community businesses, and churches to make Strong Roots Saving Lives presence and availability known and shown. We launched our aggressive street outreach project as a test last month using a very small budget and the demand of our services is at a very high demand. The calls are coming in non-stop, and our presence is being asked for in urban neighborhoods and by the people who live in the communities. The violence has also crossed over to suburban middle-class neighborhoods as well as upper-class communities. The street-outreach team is the first line of defense for our strategy/scope of services to recruit youths ages 13 to 19 into our program. We engage youths and families from the corner stores to the ball parks and street corners. We are ready to increase awareness of our presence by making our personal presence known and shown to them. And by letting them know that there is hope for them and that we are there to help them. Although our services are in high demand, most of them are not going to come to us for help so we must go to them. We will help and assist 40 to 50 youth to modify their behavior, thought pattern and way of life. We walk the roughest and toughest urban city communities of Georgia several times a week to engage high-risk youth and young adults. We give them our business cards, brochures, Tee-Shirts, Posters and offer them a chance for change. This includes gang members, who are often drug dealers, drug addicts. I find that there are always a few of them who are willing and ready to come into our program immediately. Once they agree to come into our program, I do an assessment on the individual. As a licensed clergy and councilor, I am able to do an assessment of the youth mental health condition. Based on my findings I recommend and refer them to different types of treatments and find the proper outsource program for them based on their needs. (I have often taken the youth to a psychologist or psychiatrist for to be analyzed for further treatment. We make sure that we get them the mental health counseling that they need to redirect their thought process and deal with all issues they are dealing with. We use volunteer mentors, and an outreach street team who have the skills, education, and experience to help change the lives of gang members and high-risk youth. Some of the volunteers are leaders of churches and some (like my-self) have once traveled down the same path that these high-risk youth are following but they were able to change their lives. have but was able to change their lives through higher education and mentoring. They talk to them and share testimonies of how they have made changes in their live and how the Strong Roots Saving Lives Program can help to change their lives. Even as the president of Strong Roots, I will actually go out into the communities a minimum of 6 time a month to engage the youth myself. By request of families, I also take on the challenge of advocating for first time offenders in the courts to have the high-risk youth released to the Strong Roots Saving Youth Program. In January 2022 statistics showed: Gang violence is up by 25% from last year. • Approximately 160 "documented gangs" in Georgia (but not the names of the gangs) • 100 "active" gangs, with about 30 gangs "actively driving violence" • About 5,300 total individuals • Approximately 2,800 "active" gang members • The remainder — or about 2,500 individuals — are classified as "inactive," "deceased," or "long term incarcerated" • 66.4% black non-Hispanic • 14.1% white Hispanic • 9.7% black Hispanic • 2.3 % white non-Hispanic • 0.4% Asian 2022 to date - Atlanta Crime (Projected Data)* Incidents Aggravated Assault 2,086 Arson 0 Burglary 1,757 Larceny and Theft 9,356 Motor Vehicle Theft 426 Murder and Manslaughter 106 Rape 274 Robbery 1,225 Crime Rate (Total Incidents) 18,802 Property Crime 11,539 Violent Crime 3,621 Demographics Georgia White 65.6 Black 27.2 Hispanic 12.9 Youth Population 19.5 Over 65 Population 12.1 We collect data regarding the services provided by our performance measurement which focuses on achieving the organization’s goals and bottom line results by paying close attention to the mission, objectives, and outcomes of the organization, its purpose and its mission. The measure of success in the short and long term will be determined by the length of time that it takes to achieve our goals. We maintain proper documentation of everything that we do within our organization to include: • Aligning individual employee's day-to-day actions with strategic business objectives. • Providing visibility and clarifying accountability related to performance expectations. • Documenting individual performance to support client planning decisions. • Establishing focus for skill development and learning activity choices. • Creating documentation for legal purposes, to support decisions and reduce disputes. • Delivering regular relevant job feedback. • Setting and communicating clear performance expectations Effective goal setting (including timelines), combined with a method to track progress and identify obstacles, contributes to success and bottom-line results. • Regularly tracking progress against performance goals and objectives also provides the opportunity to recognize and reward employees for performance and exceptional effort, contributing to job satisfaction and productivity. • Clear visibility, regular individual analysis, and company-wide employee appraisals help identify competencies and skill gaps. • With this valuable data in hand, we can identify training and development plans. We will publicize the results and/or activities of this project. The results will be publicized once a year in a booklet and to the Georgia department of public safety. The booklet will be given to partners with other non-profit organizations that can meet the needs of our clients to also include: 1. Law enforcement agencies 2. Political leaders 3. Business owners 4. Church Leaders 5.Schools 6. Community Programs and Centers Ultimately our purpose is to recruit individuals that are seeking to change their lives (they have the willingness but don't know how). With our presence and the presence of other organization partners we can make a difference (the streets talk). All offenders must be held accountable for their actions. The Strong Roots Saving Youth Program has developed a strategic comprehensive plan that will include elements of prevention, intervention, education, redirection, and mentoring.