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Our Promise
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What We Provide
Our all-volunteer New York city-wide program is comprised of several components, all having to do with providing meaningful and positive educational, athletic, social, emotional, and overall juvenile delinquency prevention activities for our mostly economically disadvantaged inner-city youth enrollment, 8 - 20 years old. Exploring our kids' positive potential to succeed is stressed. A major objective is our use of sports to reach youngsters who are often very difficult to otherwise reach. We're then able to impact our kids in many positive ways. We help keep them in school, make learning a positive, and promote the overall growth process. We emphasize maximizing positive potential, drug education/prevention, decreased street violence, improved reading and writing skills, and learning to respect others from diverse backgrounds.
Positive intergroup relations is continually emphasized. Specific program activities include tutoring, counseling, sports (primarily baseball, basketball, and intramurals), Community Outreach, and College Placement. We are major players in helping our student/athletes get college scholarships to schools all over the U.S.A., on a variety of academic, athletic, and financial aid scholarships.
At least partly as a result of the discipline, positive lessons learned, and our role-model all-volunteer staff, our Kids are, historically and overwhelmingly, success stories throughout their lives. Prime examples of this success, and values learned, is that a majority of our current adult volunteers are former youth members, now gainfully employed and mostly college educated, come back to give of themselves, as was given to them when they were youngsters. Indeed, at last count, more than 50 of our graduates are school teachers throughout the United States! |
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| Testimonials
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Thank you for sending me to college and for taking me away from New York. Mel, you are like a father to me. No more of: ‘No stupid remarks’, ''No trouble’. Thank You Dad".
Eric Espinal, graduated 1998 
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