Surviving the Concrete Jungle - Creating a Rites of Passage Program centered around training middle and high school boys of color on how to not only survive the inner city but thrive socially, academically, and emotionally on this unequal playing field.

It Takes a Village - Parent Workshop
It takes a village to raise a child and, while school is very much a part of that, we must never lose sight of the most important “residents” of the village: parents. “Though schools have to be an extension of the household but they will never take the place of the role of the parents. Schools must see themselves as a partner not as a replacement.

Taking It to Another Level - Rites of Passage (Male/Female)
"As he trudged in the blindness of his hood, he knew that he was leaving behind more than his father and his mother and his brothers in the village of his birth, and this filled him with sadness as much as terror. But he knew it must be done, as it had been done by his father before and would someday be done by his son. He would return, but as a man." ~Alex Haley's Roots