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Salute First Mentorship Academy
Mission: The purpose of the Salute First Mentorship Academy is to impact young men from all walks of life by challenging their current perspective and belief systems in a pursuit to build men of good character. Males enrolled in this program will participate in daily mentorship lessons using the Salute First curriculum. Program outcomes such as perspective realignment, responsibility, identification of sabotaging behaviors, healthy inner dialogue, positive interactions with others, and the importance of self-regulation (also identified as mental governance in SF) support our students' need to regulate and respond appropriately to their emotions.
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Healthy Minds and Healthy Bodies (Beat the Streets Yoga Program)
Mission: Beat the Streets yoga program provides participants a new way to focus and regulate strong emotion. We believe that by utilizing body-mind connection fundamental to yoga we can help shape a new foundation where when confronted by stress participants learn not to flash out in anger, lapse into sullen silence or abuse their bodies. We believe that the quieting of the mind and soothing of the body that yoga practice provides can lay the groundwork necessary for successful participation in cognitive behavior therapy. Yoga exercises promote self-control and positive thinking that help to decrease criminal thinking that typically results negative consequences and/or outcomes on our local communities. Taken together we think this combination can make them more resilient, help them persist in school and life, and provide a counterweight to the strife and stressors which have assailed so many from such an early age.
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BTS Breaking the Cycle
Mission: Beat The Streets "Breaking the Cycle" program initiative is geared towards addressing the economic and social deficiencies in lower income first generation youth whom are graduating with high school. Many of these youth are without the basic knowledge to move forward into adulthood. The program seeks to equip those participants with the ability to equip themselves with various directives and options so that they can become productive citizens in their community. The program is an 8-week program. This program's goal is to limit the amount of under privileged youth in similar situations and bring forth hope to those individuals. Crime prevention and reduction is also an essential goal of the program while being implemented with complete fidelity. In addition, participants will not become inclined to indulge in activities that can lead to incarceration and other circumstance that would impact their communities in negative way. The main outcome over this funded period is to develop a continued avenue for those graduating high school to achieve their personal goals relative to economic and social stability. The participants of the program will show by the end of the program they have identified plans of action which would allow for them to move forward in the path of their desired field of choice.
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BTS Ladies (Beautifying The Streets)
Mission: BTS Ladies (Beautifying The Streets) is to provide young ladies with a firm structural program that will enhance their self- esteems academic achievement, appreciation of music: leadership skills, and cultural awareness. This, in turn, will provide them with the opportunity to develop emotionally, socially, and intellectually and be prepared to take an active role in their success as they face the challenges of the world.
Finally, as you may have noted, Beat The Streets is taking an active, multi-dimensional approach towards empowering and investing into the members of our local communities.
Beat The Streets Music and Arts program attracts community members of all ages to the one thing we all have in common, the love of music. This craft is used to enhance and teach multiple life skills, which includes the importance of demonstrating accountability. Next, BTS Yoga is implemented with the goal of prompting participants to notice and manage their mental and physical health, i.e., developing the skill of self-control while processing any current or past traumatic experiences in a more positive manner within a safe environment. In addition, The Salute 1st Program, BTS Ladies and BTS Breaking the Cycle- programs will all provide structured guidance and community level supports committed to developing more invested, productive, and successful community members.
Thank you for taking the time to reviewing our programs, as we are hopeful that you see our commitment and passion for the work we are doing, and are willing to allow us to support your organization’s efforts to approach crime prevention and community development from a more holistic point of view all in an effort to have a notable positive impact within our local communities.
Thank you for taking the time to reviewing our programs, as we are hopeful that you see our commitment and passion for the work we are doing, and are willing to allow us to support your organization’s efforts to approach crime prevention and community development from a more holistic point of view all in an effort to have a notable positive impact within our local communities.
