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Community Programs

Program Catogories:


  • Crime prevention
  • Youth information dissemination and assessment
  • Capacity Building Workshops.
  • Emerging Health and Social Issues Faced to our Community
  • Spiritual Healing (Annual project)

Crime prevention

To prevent crime and victimization effectively, the community identifies its assets and needs. It also mobilizes a variety of players, including those providing services in areas such as housing, social services, public health, policing, community sports and recreation, schools, and other socio-cultural organizations such as those serving women, children, or youth.

Purpose:
The overall goal of this project is to prevent and reduce crime among the Bantu community in Milwaukee and vicinity through literacy. This Project is a family and community-based program incorporating literacy learning, holistic family learning, and developing better parenting skills and family communication to enable the parents to develop better skills and opportunities for their children. The program will focus on families with children 0 to 12 years old in the Bantu community.

Activities:

  • Crime preventionParenting education that focuses the prevention of crime in the early years of the children
  • Crime prevention Connecting to the outside/main-stream world and literacy activities so adults can attain a level of proficiency in basic skills in areas of their lives to access the resources of better parenting and dealing with educational and justice systems in USA
  • Crime prevention Literacy, pre-literacy and developmentally appropriate activities for children
  • Crime prevention Formal and informal activities providing opportunities for adult-child interactions.

Youth information dissemination and assessment

Purpose:
To meet the social and emotional needs of the Bantu youth

Activities:

  • Crime and youth workshops
  • Milwaukee, employment and career planning workshop

Capacity Building Workshops

Purpose:
The purpose of this project was to develop the skills and the capacity of the Bantu community.

Activities:

  • Project management Skills
  • Fundraising skills
  • Community advocacy and building public relations
  • Accountability

Emerging Health and Social Issues Faced to our Community

Purpose:
The main purpose of this project was to promote awareness and understanding of emerging health and social issues faced by our community.

Activities:

  • Awareness of obesity
  • Understanding of attention deficit/ hyperactive disorder
  • Time and money management

Spiritual Healing (Annual project)

Purpose:
To promote awareness and understanding of different issues within the context of the Bantu culture and religion.

Activities:

  • Spiritual healing workshops
  • Parenting & Conflict resolution
  • Families getting together



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