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Education Programs
Impact thru Education
As an extension of Irons 2 Impact, Inc., a non-for-profit company, Impact
thru Education is seeking expand its youth educational program to
include empowering youth in elementary through high school, to pursue their
goals, dreams and passion. Our program focuses on the importance of
academics, gang violence, sports, entrepreneurship and life enhancement
skills exposing real life challenges and providing solutions. We offer hope
to youth that are underserved, under-recognized and underdeveloped.
Impact thru Education, (a community-based program) program
in-conjunction with local public and private schools impacts small and large
groups of students weekly through interactive learning exercises and
transformational conversations. The program is seeking to expose over 1000
children to a minimum of 36 hours of sports recreation and life enhancement
skills training annually.
Since its inception in May 2007, the program has exposed 200 youth to life
enhancement skills using sports recreational environments as a medium by
which to build trust. Each year, Irons 2 Impact works with the Georgia
Training Alliance to sponsor youth athletic camps in the Atlanta area. A
testimony to its popularity is that 30% of the participants are returning
students. Under the direction of the Irons Family, (David, Sr., David
Jr., and Kenny Irons), our youth various programs expose inner city
children, ages 5-18, to a multitude of mediums i.e. sports, training,
mentoring, leadership and life enhancement skills, etc.
The unique aspect of this program is the active participation of local
athletes who donate their time and talent to instruct, train, critique and
demonstrate for the students. The need for such a program comes from the
fact that growing up in the inner city provides challenges that negatively
impact a person’s quality of life. Negative stimuli and the lack of exposure
to positive role models and community-based activities all contribute to
this overwhelming problem. Specifically, community-based programs and
activities have diminished from the many under-served neighborhoods
providing limited vehicles of expression for today’s youth. Impact thru
Education realizes the need to partner with schools, administrators,
teachers and parents to reach the youth where they are.
As a counter to this trend, the goal of
this program is to increase the exposure of inner city children to the
positive community-based youth programs, giving them an opportunity to
explore their talents and benefit from the positive psychological effects of
having a strong community support and role models needed for healthy
childhood development and adulthood transition.
To date, funding for this program has been 100% provided by private and
corporate donations and the donated time of the athletes.
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