COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT EVENTS

• COUNCILMAN CURTIS JONES, JR. LEADS MILLION FATHER MARCH BACK TO OVERBROOK HIGH SCHOOL SEPT. 2010

• CITY WIDE CLEANUP OF:

• RECREATION CENTERS

• BASEBALL FIELDS

• FOOTBALL FIELDS

SCOP EXPO

• (SCOP) SUPPORT COMMUNITY OUTREACH PROGRAM EXPO

• EARTH DAY KIDS PERFORM THEIR EARTH DAY SONG @ SCOP EXPO

BOBBY JONES MEMORIAL BASKETBALL CLINIC

• YOUTH PARTICIPATED IN BASKETBALL DRILLS

• HOSTED BY FORMER CHAMPION 76ER

• WALI JONES

• OUTSTANDING STUDENT RECEIVES A $1,000 SCHOLARSHIP FOR COLLEGE

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

• BASKETBALL COURTS

• PARKS• VACANT LOTS• NEIGHBORHOOD

AREAS

MARTIN LUTHER KING SERVICE DAY

EDUCATION

• COACH KELLY DUPREE AND THE EARTHDAY KIDS

• SPEAKS @ THE LAUNCHING IMPLEMENTATION OF RECYCLING PROGRAM @ JOHN BARRY ELEMENTARY

• ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS

NATIONAL HONOR SOCIETYMAY 17, 2011

• THE WEST PHILA. YOUTH INITIATIVE STUDENTS GET INDUCTED INTO NATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY

CAREER DEVELOPMENT• BUSINESS SKILLS:[1]• ·        Time Management·        -------- Setting Priorities Planning• ·        Organizing• ·        Communication•     Writing•     Speaking•     Presenting/Presentation•     Using Technology To Learn•     Interviewing•     Leadership•     Interpersonal/ Relationship •     With Parents•     With Family•     With Friends•     With Classmates•     With Government Officials•     With TeachersOther Authority Figures

[1] These are the skills UBSA believes our urban youth need to have to become “workforce ready” upon completion of high school. Additional research to determine the effectiveness of focusing on these skill sets will be undertaken by the Goodwin College and the LeBow College.

SPORTS PROGRAMS

• FOOTBALL– CAMPS – CHRIS VINCENT

• ARIZONA CARDINALS’

• ANTHONY BECHT

• CHRIS VINCENT

• LARRY FITZGERALD

• COACH KELLY DUPREE

FOOTBALL CAMPS

– CLINICS– FILM STUDY

– SAT PREPARATION WORKSHOPS

– CLINIC OVERVIEW OF PARTICIPANTS

YOUTH FOOTBALL TEAMS– ANTHONY BECHT

SPEAKS @ HIS FOOTBALL CAMP

• WEST PHILLY NATIVE • CHRIS VINCENT (SIGNING

AUTOGRAPHS AND LARRY FITZGERALD SPONSORED THE WEST PHILA. YOUTH INITIATIVE SUMMER CAMP

– TEAMS

• 75 POUNDS• 85 POUNDS• 105 POUNDS

BASEBALL

– PHILLIES RBI LEAGUES

– LEON MCCLAIN

– COMMISSIONER DESMOND NEWBILL

– CLINICS

– CAMPS

BASKETBALL PROGRAMS

• BASKETBALL– LEAGUES

– CLINICS

– CAMPS

SPORTS EVENTS

• PHILA.76ERS– 100 YOUTHS

ATTEND 76ERS VS. DALLAS GAME MARCH 2011

THE WEST PHILADELPHIA YOUTH INITIATIVE GOALS

PHILADELPHIA YOUTH DEVELOPMENT CORP. GOALS

•Launch Youth Initiative Programs throughout the city of Philadelphia starting in West Philadelphia.

•Provide ample activities and developmental programs for children of all ages ranging from about 4-21.

•Programs are designed to alleviate problems within our community stemming from at risk teenagers and young adults.

•Providing our kids with the necessary life and career development skills at a young age, will minimize or eliminate turmoil later in life.

•Need a facility where classes can be held and an indoor gym for our basketball team; preferably in the West Philadelphia Region.

•Upon completion of the career development classes, provide job and career placement services which allows students to utilize the skills they have acquired immediately.

THE WEST PHILADELPHIA YOUTH INITIATIVE GOALS (CONT’D)

• Provide transportation services via shuttles, vans, so that inconvenienced children will have a way to reach our facility.

• Facility will provide a day and mid evening care service for working parents. Parenting classes for single mothers and fathers.

• SAT Prep classes will be included as part of our development programs.

• -College tours and scholarship programs for adolescent teenagers.

• -Indoor facilities with classroom setting and or access to super sites scholarship programs.

• -We would like to employ staff in all areas of our program ranging from coaches to chaperones and tutors who will oversee events, programs, and work production.

CHARITY FUND RAISERS

• INSIDE THE TRENCHES

• RKAL

• KIM SMITH