LIFE SKILLS RETREAT
Out of town weekend event offered to youth that have earned the opportunity to attend through their hard work, academic accomplishments and/or behavioral improvements as measured by their performance logs and grade reports. Youth participate in life skills workshops led by their mentors and are challenged with activities they have never experienced before such as horseback riding, spelunking, sailing, going to the beach, seeing dolphins, hiking in the mountains and much more.
NATIONAL NIGHT OUT
Every year, Raising Expectations participates in this important national campaign that first began in 1984 to encourage neighborhood camaraderie to fight for safer streets. RE volunteers and staff work to coordinate and organize this event that offers free school supplies and safety information to children and residents of Atlanta’s neighborhoods.
RAISING VOICES
An intensive spoken word and activism unit which teaches youth how to use critical thought to dissect and understand social ills and how to use the power of words through poetry to bring attention to particular matters of interest.
VINE CITY FALL FESTIVAL
A popular local event staged by the Vine City Health & Housing Ministry and Capacity Builders, the Fall Festival gives kids a chance to safely celebrate Halloween with a variety of games and activities including costume contests, a basketball skills challenge and trick or treating while interacting with community members and police officers.
YOUTHVIEW
This program works with youth and residents to develop a video history of their neighborhood using information available within the “walls” of the community, oral histories as told by community elders as well as historical archival data collections housed at the Auburn Avenue Library.
YOUTHFIRST
Program designed to increase the level of participation in out of school time activities by a larger percentage of youth that attend schools and reside within boundaries of the communities that RE serves.
WESTSIDE JUMP OUT SANTA GIFT GIVING
A collaborative event with our partners at the Vine City Health & Housing Ministry and Capacity Builders, Westside Jump Out Santa Gift Giving offers our volunteers the opportunity to dress up in holiday attire a week before Christmas, pick up gifts from Toys for Tots and actually deliver them throughout the Westside neighborhoods of Atlanta as we play holiday music!
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