Our Programs and Services

Community Food Bank

Community Connections

Community Food Bank

Food justice is an important part of community justice. We take donations from local businesses and use them to fight hunger. Help us connect with donors and with people in need.

Volunteer Service

Community Connections

Community Food Bank

We mobilize our teams of volunteers to make a real difference. Join us and see what can be accomplished when you get an impassioned team to focus on change.

Community Connections

Our community is full of people who want to help. We work to help the people providing services with the people who need them. Come connect with people in new ways.Want to connect?

Currently looking for adults and youths interested in:

Volunteering

Mentoring

Completing service Hours for High Schoolers

Internships

Etc.

S.T.E.M education

Re-entery from incarceration

Youths learn science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, and how it is important to mental and financial growth.

Re-entery from incarceration

In this program, youths who experience problems with incarcerations, go through training exercises on how to reintegrate back into society and school.

Substance Abuse support

Re-entery from incarceration

Physical Fitness education

Youths who experience substance abuse issues are placed into group treatment recommendations for their substance abuse to receive support and therapy.

Physical Fitness education

Gang and Conflict Resolutions

Physical Fitness education

Our young people are educated about taking care of their physical and mental well-being, such as getting the proper rest and diet.

Stress Management education

Gang and Conflict Resolutions

Youths are educated about stress and the damage it does to their well-being and brain.

Gang and Conflict Resolutions

In this workshop, youths talk about gangs, conflicts, etc. Youths are educated that conflicts are rooted in violence, which is a disease that can be reversed through the right knowledge and education.

G.E.D, High School & College Diplomas

Youths are encouraged to seek their

G.E.D, high school diploma or college diploma. The youths are educated to believe in themselves and receive all the assistance and guidance they need in SONSOP to obtain their educational goals.

Parenting workshops

G.E.D, High School & College Diplomas

Young parents are educated on how to properly interact with their child. Many children experience conflict and trauma in the household, and parents educated in these areas will make youth lives healthier psychologically, physically, and emotionally.

Communication workshops

G.E.D, High School & College Diplomas

Communication workshops

Youth are taught effective communication skills and learn that good relationships with other people can greatly reduce stress and anxiety. Also, they are taught to improve social support, which is linked to better mental health. This technique builds confidence in youth to positively interact with others and develop strong communication skills that increases the chance for

successful relationships.

Trauma support

Youth are taught restructuring and reframing exercises using Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) Distortion Exercises. These exercises are designed to change negative thinking and build creative positive thinking. Also, youth are taught to face their fears and to develop more positive thinking.

Entrepreneur Workshops

Youth are taught business skills, developing businesses and how to

become independent business men and women.

Leadership Workshops

Youth are taught etiquette and character building. Further, Youth are

taught to respect people and learn to socially interact.

Culinary arts & cooking classes

Youth learn the basics of cooking, baking, prepping food and food decor etiquette to become more independent and get a job in the food service industry.

Arts & creative workshops

Youth with have a variety of different creative workshops from acting, dancing, film production, painting and learning how to mix music, etc. Through these workshops they will learn how to express themselves and have a creative outlet in these endeavors.

Vocational Training

Youth who are interested in working as a plumber, electrician or other skilled craft as a tradesperson or artisan, are supported to find a program and complete the program.

TRAINING WORKSHOP

Youth with or without special needs are taught how to gain their I.Ds, driver license, medical insurance, transportation, housing, and career opportunities. During this youth are taught resilience to overcome obstacles in their path.

JOB READINESS support

Youth with or without special needs are taught how to properly present themselves in interviews, mannerism & appropriate attire. Also, Youth learn how to job search, research job ads, and job hunts. Also, youth are taught to get proper sleep and to develop the mind-set for job readiness.

LEARNING SKILLS & READING DEVELOPMENT

Youth learn to identify the purpose of reading, using efficient silent reading techniques for relatively rapid comprehension, learning how to skim the text for main ideas, vocabulary development, etc.

Sports leagues & Team work

Youth will choose from basketball, tennis, soccer, baseball and football, etc. to become part of a cohesive mindset of a team that pushes and grows with each other to work together.