About
The Young Men With POWER program is targeted towards young men in grades 5th-9th who live in the Baltimore metropolitan area. The Young Men With POWER program is catered towards young men who are willing to make a difference in their own lives by building self-esteem, ethical values, and cultural proficiency. Additionally, the program serves as a creative outlet for the participating young men, so that they can express themselves and live up to their full potential.
The community problems that this program addresses and solves are the lack of gender specific programs targeting young men in the Baltimore metropolitan area. We believe the lack of attention given to young men is the cause of the problem. It is important to address this problem because young men are faced with many disadvantages and difficulties in everyday life. Compared to young females, young men are more likely to drop out of school, commit crimes, become incarcerated, and find difficulty in maintaining a job. By having a program that targets young men only it will address some of those disadvantages and difficulties that young men are faced with.
Purpose
The purpose of this program is to teach and empower each participant through a series of goals and objectives in order for them to become educated young men who will possess moral character, self-awareness and promote community service.
Mission
The mission is to cultivate and encourage moral character, self-awareness and to promote community service while improving the success among young men; by helping them accomplish self-reliant manhood and responsibility by their participation in workshops aimed to build self-esteem, ethical values, and cultural proficiency in their pursuit for higher education.