PRIYDE uses a multi-program approach to training and developing youth. Most of the youth that PRIYDE works with are from families that earn less than $30,000.00 and have less than 2-years of college. Typically, the communities where the youth reside are considered high risk with major community issues in substance abuse, school drop out, delinquency, gang involvement, violence and teenage pregnancy. The underlying factors causing this issues to be so critical in our targeted community are varied. Those underlying factors include: family management problems, easy access to alcohol and drugs, family attitudes and acceptance of drugs, ease of getting firearms, rebelliousness, no respect for authority, and living in poverty and unemployment.
Our aim is to reduce the issues and underlying factors from detrimentally affecting the young people enrolled in our program by providing sound protective and resilient driven programs that enable youth to chose life and to chose a decision pathway that leads them to safety and success.
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Financial Intelligence, Planning and Management: Youth must learn a sound model to make money. The idea is to teach youth how to first: plan their finances through a set of workshop using a text authored by Kapoor, Dlabay, and Hughes entitled Personal Finance. Youth will engaged in principled conversation regarding their future and their expectations for their future career and sustainment of their pursuits. Financial Intelligence, Planning and Management is designed to motivate youth to think big and to go beyond their widest dream in their thinking and planning. Youth will be coached in completing a personal financial planner and interact with others while discussing the different approaches to completing their planner.
Business and Career Plan Development: This is a ten week youth oriented training program for young aspiring entrepreneurs, ages 14 - 20, who are interested in planning their business or occupational future. Youth learn to develop personal mission statements, financial plans, marketing plans and strategies, plans for further education and training, and to build relationships [with potential investors].
Civic Responsibility and Stewardship: This curriculum and mentoring program provides an overview (in a fun, yet educational way) of the major civic responsibilities in the immediate community, state, region, and nation. Youth will: 1) be presented an opportunity to be exposed to principles of stewardship and civics, 2)interact with elected officials and other youth leaders in their community working to effect change in a positive and constructive way, 3) receive voter education, voter registration information and how to work with parents to get them to vote, and voter participation. This program will also give youth a chance to identify areas requiring stewardship, and then organize the youth to develop long- and middle-term creative ways to purchase or gain control of the land, and to turn vacant, Aeye sore@ land, physical structures, facilities into youth-led projects and ventures.
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“Keep Your Head To The Sky” Rites of Passage Curriculum: Solid, progressive and substantive community values are the result of a clear understanding of the ancestors who help create and transmit the culture in the first place. Many events in world history scantily revealed how clarity in understanding has been distorted by such events as conquests, famine, wars, and slavery. In slavery, for instance, the history of the originating of those enslaved are often lost deep within oblivion in an effort by the enslaver to destroy the very linkage that makes a people strong - their culture. Recognizing this issue as a critical obstacle to overcome in the United States, for example, requires a wholistic and systemic approach linked to the heritage of the our ancestors from the continent of Africa to the United States.
Youth Advocacy Through Media: Youth working at The PERICO Institute for Youth Development and Entrepreneurship (PRIYDE), research dozens of magazines, newspaper, journals, and web based information to develop a bi-monthly national newsletter named “URBAN PRIYDE”. The purpose URBAN PRIYDE is to address youth issues that have national implications - rural and urban. Youth examine the legislative matter impacting youth program and write to inform or disseminate data and information.
Apprenticeships: The apprenticeship program is designed to provide paid, on-the-job training and structured learning activities to youth in order to develop skills needed for well paying jobs involving business, law, journalism, accounting, public service, social worker, business owner, and community leader.
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