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Causes: Human Service Organizations, Human Services
Mission: To guide and mentor parents, families and youth to be ethical and active servant leaders in homes, schools, employment, and community always striving for academic success, healthy lives, safe environments and a better quality of life.
Programs: Family leadership course: the executive director oversaw the implementation of the program. 48 ccsd school district parents graduated from a 60 hour fli course over a year's time at 4 schools impacting 75 school students. Parents demonstrated significantly greater involvement in ther learning needs of their children. 62 parents and students toured the university to understand higher education and to better prepare their children to enter college.
parent volunteer training: 36 fli graduate parents were trained to assist with coordination of the parent leadership course assisting with coordination of unlv bus tours, signing in parents for class, providing academic enrichment activities to the children of parents while parents attended class, and assisting at the fli graduation.
family leadership youth council: 26 students, children of fli parent graduates, joined the second youth council. They were provided with 30 hours of training between march and september. Twelve (12) received one-on-one coaching by 4 volunteer college students helping them ensure they were on track with their credits to graduate high school. Through a city ynapp grant as inkind, they served over 2000 volunteer hours designing and painting two murals.
This organization's nonprofit status may have been revoked or it may have merged with another organization or ceased operations.