Angels At Risk

Programs: Angels at risk believes in the power of storytelling and we use it in all elements and aspects of our programs. It is through storytelling that all people find a common ground in their hearts. History has proven that the truth and innocence of all of our life stories illuminates hope and gives a means to help each other. We encourage everybody to share their story with each other. Our goal is to create a snapshot, a memory, a moment of encouragement for families to reach out to other people in the community. We truly believe in the element of damage control. Our experience shows how important it is for kids to get through the middle & high school years as untainted from drugs and alcohol as possible. Our programs are designed to make a difference in the quality of the community both in preventing short-term crisis and in maintaining long-term social stability. Angels at risk is a safety net catching kids and families from all backgrounds before they fall through the cracks. Our programs and services accomplishments are many. Since we are a small nonprofit with a wide umbrella, our programs and services span from inglewood to malibu and are best described below. We guesstimate as seen through our different modalities that we impact anywhere between 500-1,500 kids, parents, and administrators or more a year. Specific accomplishments are lengthy and current accomplishments in detail are upon request and follow the general guidelines of what our programs and services envelop in the seven modalities below. While we continue the basic programs we have had since 1997 and while we continue to streamline our 7 modalities and our simple cutting edge curriculum our activities vary from year to year regardless. We continue to expand this year specifically through our new alliances with other nonprofits, coupled with a new mou for the prestigious green dot school district. We currently provide:1. Parent-teen prevention education programs (free to westside community/schools/legal/police and courts). 2. Counselors for campus support, classroom speakers, school assemblies for parents and school assemblies for kids. 3. Lunchtime and afterschool prevention programs and projects4. We facilitate trainings and in-service workshops (teachers/ptsa/police/community resources). 5. Angels at risk generates public awareness via website, blogging, events, media, education, stories for school newspapers/websites and general knowledge about parent sponsored meetings. 6. We collaborate with other non-profit organizations. 7. We provide help in alliance with other community drug/alcohol/mental health resources if we can. Since 1997 our prevention education curriculum has been accepted and championed by government officials, community organizations, public and private schools and families both rich and poor. Our programs have impacted many kids, teenagers and their families directly and countless others indirectly through the ripple affect angels at risk has in the community, which in turn has made a shift in the heart of our social fabric. Whether or not our lives have been touched by drug and alcohol use or any mental health challenges, help can always be found by teaching children, teenagers and families through prevention education. No teenager, no parent, no family should be alone. This year our successes are many:the impact of our funded programs is incredible. Our measures of success are through our curriculum- based surveys, stories and continued demand by the school districts, families, law enforcement and communities as a whole for the past nineteen years. Please refer to our year-end report 2008 narrative for a statistical breakdown of the number of people we have impacted over the past year. How we measure our success:1. A new way that we measure our success is by the fact that other non-profits, schools, and community resources ask for our programs and services and also request our alliance. 2. We measure our progress each year through compiling data collected through surveys, in-services, stories and more surveys into an extensive report. We also reflect our success through the numerous endorsement letters from a variety of community schools and venues. Even our angels at risk 2017 event was curriculum and survey-based. Our current report for 2011-2012 is 45 pages of data and stories. 3. We measure our success by the steadfast reputation we have gained and sustained, and by the astronomical growing demand for our programs and services that we cannot fulfill due to funding. 4. We also measure our success in another unique way. Angels at risk's prevention education and programs and services, encourage families to get more help in all forms of counseling. Angels at risk is the beginning of the journey where schools and families continue to make outreach for help. 5. A new way that we measure our mission as being on point is by reflecting the 2016 surgeon general's report about prevention education being the future in 2016. 6. Finally, despite the lack of financial support for a new upgraded website we continue to attract families from across the country for donation in lieu of flowers as a result of losing their child crisis. Our mission is their wish.