J.I.T. OUTREACH PROGRAM

The J.I.T Outreach Program is an organization set out to help needy families and troubled juveniles ranging from the ages of nine (9) to seventeen (17). Our main focus is helping these juveniles to seek a better path in life other than that of the streets; but in order to do so; we’ll need the help of those juveniles’ parents. If we show them Love, Life, Loyalty, Knowledge, Wisdom, and Understanding, we believe that we can capture their way of thinking at an early stage in life, we can help mold them into our future Lawyers, Doctors, Teachers, Police Officers, Fire Fighters, Governors, Senators, Contractors, etc. If we can give them something to look forward to other than the streets, drugs, murder, and just crime in general that lead to life in prison or worst; we can help make that change in their lives!! 

      We will try to help certain families who qualify, with rent, lights, water, and other expenses such as school clothes and supplies, groceries, and things of that nature. We will be getting involved with the schools, teachers, and counselors to help with their GPA and overall behavior in the classroom. We’ll do this by making the learning process fun and adventurous to help them want to excel in the classroom. By offering certain programs like computer programming, engine technician, culinary arts, arts and crafts, sports, and other genres of learning, we can keep them out of the streets and out of harms way, but most importantly; out of prison. 

      When report cards are issued, all children who have brought their grades up in the areas in which they were struggling, their names will be entered into a drawing to win prizes like laptops, home P.C.’s, video games, portable C.D. players, MP3 players, iPods, shoes, clothes, bicycles, trips to the movies with their families, etc., and we’ll also award them with an Certificate of Achievement. We’ll have fundraisers for the children to help buy sporting equipment. On the last Saturday of every month we’ll have Bar-B-Ques, family picnics or show casings of what they have learned from the program. We will host talent shows every three (3) months on the last day of the month. The talent shows will consist of: stepping, dancing, singing, hip-hop, and poetry readings. 

      We will contact the Department of Juvenile Justice, Clerk of Courts, State Attorney’s Office,  Social Services and whoever else we have to contact to ensure that we provide a way for those troubled children not to go to JAIL. We are seeking to help them strive Educationally, Economically, Politically, to build Social Development Skills, Organizational Skills and Unity. And if we use these six (6) elements I just mentioned as a guiding light, we believe that they will grow and develop into our future leaders of tomorrow. In the visions of this program and through this programs’ vision they’ll become a reckoning force of power beyond boundaries and without measures. If they trust, look, listen, and learn to see everything placed before them in its entire form, and to that all they have to do is keep their eyes, ears, and mind open and they will learn. All they have to do is use everything they have learned from our program to gain an advantage in life, and become a productive and model citizen. 

      With the concept of the five (5) P’s, which is our motto and stands for: Proper Preparation Prevents Poor Performance. Thus, meaning if we Properly Prepare them for the future we can Prevent Poor Performance in their lives—by giving them stepping stones instead of stumbling blocks—and that poor performance is being involved in drugs, guns, robberies, and several other crimes and mishaps and going in and out of jail.

      As we all know, it takes a village to raise child, and with the help of the parents and community, J.I.T Outreach Program will become that village. Even though I was once one of those juveniles involved in the street life, drugs and guns, I have made a major turn-around in my life and I am willing to help these juveniles make that same turn-around in life that I made through my experience. By being a positive role-model and being heavily involved with the children and their families to help keep them from making those same mistakes that I made or end up in one or two places that nobody wants to be: Jail or the Graveyard!! So, we are asking you, the parents and community, to lend a helping hand in making the J.I.T Outreach Program a success and impact in giving our children a chance to live an auspicious, propitious, and fortunate future!!