Annual Back To School Supply Giveaway
Our annual back to school supply giveaways focus on supporting families in underserved communities. Our goal is to provide a fun-filled day where youth can engage in interactive activities and families can receive necessary materials and support for the up-coming school year.
PEACE KEEPERS VIOLENCE PREVENTION PROGRAM:
Peace Keepers Violence Prevention Program": The primary focus of the "Peace Keepers Violence Prevention Program" is to reduce gun violence in neighborhoods across NYC by making students and parents stakeholders in building healthy communities and reducing conflicts that lead to gun violence. Peacekeepers will receive mentorship and conflict resolution strategies while expanding their purview of professional opportunities. The program model is designed to help youth avoid negative behaviors, achieve success, share positive values, develop a better attitude towards school, increase social and emotional development, improve self-esteem, reduce bullying, and promote good decision-making skills while building future leaders.
I WILL GRADUATE program program collaborated with the Mayor's Office and Young Men Initiative to provide mentoring and academic enrichment programs. The primary focus is to help young people in key areas such as:
Avoiding negative behaviors and achieving success
Sharing positive values and developing better attitudes toward school
Increasing social and emotional development
Improving self-esteem
Reducing conflicts/bullying
Promoting good decisions while building future leaders.
Entertainers for Education Alliance RELEASES PSA FEATURING THE PARENTS OF POP SMOKE ENTITLED:
“GUN VIOLENCE DESTROYS FAMILIES”
New York, New York – In response to recent shootings in NYC the Entertainers For Education Alliance has teamed up with the parents of slain rapper Bashar Barakah “Pop Smoke” Jackson The PSA features Audrey and Greg Jackson, mother, and father of rapper Pop Smoke to release a powerful PSA entitled “Gun Violence Destroys Families” to discourage youth from shooting each other.
Since the beginning of 2020, there have been over 1,000 shootings and almost 300 murders, in New York City. The idea for the PSA came from the Executive Director and co-founder of The Entertainers 4 Education Alliance - I WILL GRADUATE Tonya Lewis Taylor who was distraught after seeing another news story about a teen being shot. “We needed to get our youth’s attention fast and Pop Smoke polarizing music, life, and his untimely death helped us. We reached out to his parents who wanted to honor their son’s legacy by participating in the video. We want the youth to weigh the cost of their actions. You can't go back after that trigger is pulled. One moment of anger is a lifetime of pain for the loved ones left behind”.
The goal of the Gun Violence Destroys Families PSA is to bring media attention and awareness to the most recent shootings, killings, and violence that has been increasing rapidly in New York City since the COVID-19 pandemic.
The “Gun Violence Destroys Families” PSA has spawned an 8-week program geared toward educating the youth about anti-gun violence called the “Stop The Violence” program. Middle & High school participants will create and implement different solutions to combat gun violence in their communities.
Program Goal: To provide new solutions to combat gun violence in New York City we want to make sure
To help reduce gun-related crimes and violence committed by and against youth in underserved communities throughout New York City.
Make sure NYC youth have positive ways to spend their spare time, through organized recreation, tutoring programs, mentoring programs, part-time work, and volunteer opportunities.
To provide support to families and spotlight the devastating effects of gun violence on families.
Discourage the carrying and use of illegal guns by NYC youth.
Interrupting the cycle of retaliatory violence.
To provide conflict resolution strategies that arise from miscommunication.
Coordinate community and law enforcement efforts to ensure the safety of our youth in our community.
Promote resiliency, emotional healing, and healthy response to trauma.
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