Posted on: Jan 1st, 2010

The Safe Places at COA Youth & Family Centers – Riverwest Center provides youth enrichment programs weekdays from 2:30 – 8 p.m. from their location at 909 E. Garfield Ave. in the Riverwest neighborhood. COA’s Riverwest Center has received a $40,000 grant from Safe & Sound for 2010 to conduct a S.A.F.E. program aimed at [...]

Posted on: Dec 10th, 2008

The Mary Ryan Boys and Girls Club has demonstrated an ability to touch the lives of Milwaukee’s at-risk youth with their innovative programs and engaging staff members. The Mary Ryan Boys and Girls Club is located….

Posted on: Dec 10th, 2008

The Parklawn YMCA Safe Place is essential to the youth in the surrounding neighborhood. Programs …

Posted on: Dec 10th, 2008

The Marshall Boys and Girls Club has demonstrated a high capacity to touch the lives of Milwaukee’s at-risk youth with innovative programs and engaging staff members.

Posted on: Nov 30th, 2008

Silver Spring Neighborhood Center (SSNC) Youth Together Drop-in Center will have school year programs and summer intramural and social develop programs. The school year program emphasizes academic achievement, personal and interpersonal development, and recreational activities. School year activities include homework help, teen computer classes, open gym, cheerleading, teen talk sessions, field trips, dances, Growing Power, [...]

Posted on: Nov 25th, 2008

COA’s S.A.F.E. program’s goals are to attract high-risk youth and increase participation in programs designed to measurably reduce juvenile crime; to promote school achievement, personal and leadership development, and civic involvement; and to address the underlying issues of criminal activity.
A key to developing quality youth programming is to support active youth leadership. Simply put, if [...]

Posted on: Nov 25th, 2008

The LaVarnway Boys and Girls Club has demonstrated an ability to touch the lives of Milwaukee’s at-risk youth with their innovative programs and engaging staff members. The LaVarnway Boys and Girls Club is located at 2739 N. 15th Street. LaVarnway’s S.A.F.E. programming is based on a Street SMART program, which consists of evidence-based, primary prevention [...]

Posted on: Nov 23rd, 2008

Youth Together Drop-In Center

Posted on: Nov 23rd, 2008

Project Q is the Youth Program of the Milwaukee Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center. Project Q provides a safe space for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth and their straight allies.  Since 2003, Safe & Sound has funded the LGBT Center to serve the marginalized and often invisible population of LGBT youth [...]

Posted on: Nov 23rd, 2008

Northcott Neighborhood House offers an after school mentoring program that engages at-risk youth. The program involves Life Skills training, service and recreational activities. Youth involved in the mentoring program will also engage in crime prevention and civic engagement activities. These will include painting murals and organizing neighborhood clean-ups.

Posted on: Nov 23rd, 2008

Neu-Life Community Center had great success with their 2008 Crime Strategy Initiative, the Neu-Life Safe Passages Project. It was a youth-led, youth-driven project. Four middle school youth decided that their neighborhood needed some improvements that would make it safer for youth and adults to live. They decided that safety changes would bring about lower crime [...]

Posted on: Nov 23rd, 2008

Running Rebels Community Organization’s mission it provide programs that assist Milwaukee’s youth mentally, spiritually and physically while promoting community unity. Our activities are grounded in the belief that programs focusing on education and recreation are effective ways to provide youth with beneficial alternatives to gangs, substance abuse and other negative behaviors. Through after school and [...]

Posted on: Nov 22nd, 2008

PEARLS programs are girls-only, safe-space gatherings that meet once weekly after school, during school or on Saturdays. A typical PEARLS session features a guided conversation led by highly trained adult and teen staff members. Topics might include school, relationships with family, friends and boys, careers, health or whatever the girls identify as pressing issues for [...]

Posted on: Nov 22nd, 2008

Next Door Foundation, Inc. has been a Safe & Sound partner since 1999. The Leaders of Tomorrow program will serve more 125 youth in 2009. Leaders of Tomorrow will use the research-based Life Skills training curriculum for 10 to 16 year olds and supplemental materials to help program participants develop greater self-esteem and confidence, learn [...]

Posted on: Nov 22nd, 2008

The Fitzsimonds Boys and Girls Club has demonstrated an ability to touch the lives of Milwaukee’s at-risk youth with their innovative programs and engaging staff members. The Fitzsimonds Boys and Girls Club is located at 3400 W. North Avenue. Fitzsimonds’ S.A.F.E. programming is based on a Street SMART program, which consists of evidence-based, primary prevention [...]

Posted on: Nov 22nd, 2008

The goal of Neighborhood House’s 2009 S.A.F.E. program is to prevent and reduce the incidence of juvenile delinquency, crime, and other problem behaviors in at-risk youth during after school hours and during summer months. The expected outcomes from program participants will be the avoidance of drugs and alcohol, demonstration of conflict resolution skills, and improved [...]

Posted on: Nov 22nd, 2008

The Hmong American Friendship Association’s (HAFA) S.A.F.E program will implement a youth-led Crime Strategy Initiative which will include the creation of a community garden and the painting of a cultural mural.
Youth will work in HAFA’s community garden, planting and maintaining a garden of flowers, vegetables, and herbs used in traditional Hmong cooking and healing. This [...]

Posted on: Nov 20th, 2008

Agape’s philosophy and approach to juvenile crime and violence reduction is…

Posted on: Nov 20th, 2008

The Davis Boys and Girls Club has demonstrated an ability to touch the lives of Milwaukee’s at-risk youth with their innovative programs and engaging staff members. The Davis Boys and Girls Club is located at 1975 S. 24th Street. Davis’s S.A.F.E. programming is based on a Street SMART program, which consists of evidence-based, primary prevention [...]

Posted on: Nov 20th, 2008

The Daniels Mardak Boys and Girls Club has demonstrated a high capacity to touch the lives of Milwaukee’s at-risk youth with innovative programs and engaging staff members. The Daniels Mardak Club’s services range from providing a safe environment where Milwaukee’s youth can hang out after school to providing structured, evidence-based programming that contributes to the [...]

Posted on: Nov 14th, 2008

The purpose of the 2009 S.A.F.E program at the John C. Cudahy YMCA is to provide social change initiatives for youth, with the intention of supplying education resources and promoting critical thinking and the safe expression of thoughts and feelings. The S.A.F.E. program will serve youth ages 10-19 targeting youth residing in the Woodlands (Section [...]

Posted on: Nov 14th, 2008

Latino Community Center (LCC) engages youth to empower them to change negative situations into positive personal, academic and professional outcomes. LCC offers a wide array of fun and safe academic, recreational, social, and cultural activities for youth. All activities teach youth to make positive choices, resist negative peer pressure and practice nonviolent conflict resolution. A [...]

Posted on: Nov 14th, 2008

The number one program objective is to change negative behavior of youth to significantly reduce crime at the neighborhood level through athletics, academic enrichment, and community leadership and engagement. Over 1,200 will have the opportunity to participate in a wide array of recreational activities on a nightly basis. Journey House’s Youth Leadership Programs are specifically [...]

Posted on: Nov 12th, 2008

United Community Center (UCC) is committed to engaging in extensive outreach to at-risk youth in the neighborhood. The UCC S.A.F.E Program will strive to keep youth in school. Program activities include a Youth Leadership Council. Youth involved with the council assume a leadership role to discuss a variety of community problems and organize a discussion [...]

Posted on: Nov 12th, 2008

Real Apprenticeships for Teens (RAFT) is an after-school and summer program featuring traditional boatbuilding, bicycling mechanics, environmental education and leadership development for at-risk youth ages 13-17. RAFT programs will be based out of Learn the Seas new facilities at 2156 S. 4th Street (Corner of Becher & S. 4th). LSA’s mission is to combine a [...]

Posted on: Nov 12th, 2008

Project Excel’s S.A.F.E program provides a welcoming environment for youth to participate in extracurricular activities and to prevent alcohol and drug use. The main benefit to the youth and the community is that the program provides a safe, fun place for youth to be with friends and keep them off the streets. Activities at the [...]

Posted on: Nov 12th, 2008

Milwaukee Christian Center (MCC) has adopted a multifaceted, culturally sensitive approach to youth programming. MCC utilizes a strength-based model for youth programming by offering activities that build upon youth’s assets. Youth programs targeting at-risk youth are focused around a best practices model, where staff help youth with their personal development by providing mentoring and activities [...]

Posted on: Nov 10th, 2008

Heartlove Place’s Safe & Sound Youth Together Drop-in Center (Teens on the Move) aspires to instill participants with the virtues of civic duty, respect for ones self and community, and prevent risky behavior and gang involvement. The holistic approach used is not judgmental and is based on a mentoring, youth development and peer-support model. In [...]