AWA Neighborhood Trust is not your typical non-profit program. It provides a unique forum for disadvantaged youth to be elevated and uplifted by participating in various cultural, educational and preventive activities. The public needs: (1) supportive resources for youth to prevent crime and drug abuse, (2) services for disadvantaged families in the area of employment, housing and remedial education, and (3) access to community resources they can afford and in such a way that they aren’t socially, economically or politically isolated. AWA Neighborhood Trust’s goal is to ensure the development and growth of the community through education, counseling and extension of available resources to youth, their families and their schools.
AWA Neighborhood Trust objectives are:
AWA Neighborhood Trust, offers affordable educational resources to the community. AWA will appeal to individuals and families from different ethnic groups and backgrounds.
AWA Neighborhood Trust objectives are:
- The creation of a unique, upscale, innovative environment that will differentiate AWA from other community organizations
- Educating the community on what community resources are offered
- The formation of an environment that will bring students with diverse interests and backgrounds together in a common forum
- Affordable resources for the students, their families and the diverse community
AWA Neighborhood Trust, offers affordable educational resources to the community. AWA will appeal to individuals and families from different ethnic groups and backgrounds.
- The HIV/AIDS prevention will be helpful to disadvantaged families that are in need of medical resources and/or referrals that would not have otherwise benefited from other services.
- Crime/Juvenile Delinquency Prevention component will serve as a creative outlet for students that may otherwise be kicked out of school or have had Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) run-ins but are willing to complete the program to help curtail delinquent behavior and contributing to the community in which they belong.
- School aged/ Non-school aged literacy and tutoring component will not only offer All school subject tutoring, FCAT, PSAT, SAT and ACT tutoring, but also offers parents and older community members an opportunity to receive their GED at little to no cost. It will also offer a comprehensive after school program open to low income, low achieving families who meet all eligibility criteria. While still focusing on the educational component of the program, AWA will also offer cultural activities to children and their families.
- Community social services referral component will seek assistance from other community organizations to better serve disadvantaged families, in all areas (ie.: furniture, rent assistant, shelter, medical, schools, etc.).