Linking young minds with a network of people that care about their future and where they’re headed, Atlanta Speaks utilizes public speakers that use innovative and creative ways to reach young minds through select forums. We feature content specialists that have a unique interest in reaching the most valuable demographic, our young people.
Positive American Youth (P.A.Y.) was established in 1997 that focuses on helping youth through entertainment, sports, educational, motivational, and fund raising events. Taking a step up from solely being a positive influence requires that we sway our youth through experience. Positive American Youth uses the strengths and collective experiences of our staff and mentors to educate and enlighten the targeted audience.
SafeHouse Outreach is an urban outreach committed to affecting real change in the lives of those in the margins of society, by providing a hand up, not just a hand out. SafeHouse Outreach provides practical, emotional, and physical assistance to those living in the margins, and helps integrate them back into society – to lead healthy, functional lives.
Since It’s Cool To Be Smart/ Saving Our Daughters series was created based on the film Daddy’s Little Girls, the Saving Our Daughters series targets teen girls from ages 9-18 years of age, from single parent households that have an interest in music, television and film. The teens that benefit the most from the series have included Boys & Girls Club, selected high school teen girls, and teen girls that have had problems in the juvenile system.
Dallas radio host and author Reuben Armstrong has been doing the media circuit talking about his 2006 book, “Snakes In The Pulpit,” in which he accused Bishop Eddie Long of being a homosexual and having relationships with two youth Pastors.
The C.H.A.I.N. Fund, Inc. is Financial Assistance and a Social Intervention Network for Cancer Patients. Originally established in the heart of New Haven, CT we’ve aided the less fortunate for 8 years now. Many of those we helped were able to get back on their feet and start their lives a new.
PADV’s mission is to end the crime of intimate partner violence and empower its survivors. We operate the only state-certified domestic violence safe houses in Fulton and Gwinnett Counties and offer outreach to survivors in the community. PADV began as an all-volunteer agency in 1975 and incorporated in 1977. Today, the agency has more than 40 full- and part-time staff with an administrative office and two 24-hour emergency shelters in Fulton and Gwinnett counties.
Option 2 Change assists single parent households through out Metro Atlanta. We are able to restore the balance of family and community through our educational programs. We have helped single parents accomplish and build dreams.
The mission of Stand Up For Kids is to help homeless and street kids. They are provided a safe haven, given hygiene kits and clothes. They are given information to improve their life by obtaining education, IDs, birth certificate and some medical assistance.
The mission of Quest 35, Inc. is to develop and implement affordable-supportive housing programs that service the special need homeless and/or low to mixed income populations.
The Extension is a non-profit, community-supported organization serving Cobb County and the entire metropolitan Atlanta area. Our mission is to facilitate a transformation that empowers chemically dependent men and women to become sober, accountable members of society and to serve as a recovery resource for the community.
Since its inception, the Single Parent Alliance & Resource Center (SPARC) has worked diligently to improve the lives of single parent families in its community. SPARC is dedicated to supporting single parents in their efforts to raise happy, healthy, well adjusted, successful children.