The Program......The Strategy

Toolshed Ministries Youth with Purpose offers one of the most unique and needs based approach to youth and community development for at-risk youth and families: A low to no cost After School Sports Program utilizing the schools, community and volunteers. By providing after school sports and activities, will help cut down on 3-7pm Juvenile Crime rates, help working parents with childcare, encourage youth to achieve in and out side of the class room, provide physical fitness to help cut down on growing childhood obesity and help build a stronger connection between peers, community, schools, positive adult to youth interaction and best of all help build or rebuild a stronger community foundation. Youth with Purpose uses the arts and techology to inspire and promote youth: Self Confidence & Worth, Communication Skills, Literacy, Health & Physical Fitness, Social Skills, Job Readiness, Team Work, Responsibility, Respect for Self & Others, and Creative & Positive Thinking. Toolshed Ministries is committed to the growth and development of urban youth. We have incorporated a strategy to which not only addresses the diverse needs of the youths, but the needs of the community. First we start with mending and building bridges of the contemporary urban youth that is held together with patience built on the foundation of commitment. Toolshed Ministries will work with those youth that have been misplaced or misguided or simply growing up in a environment surrounded by crime, drugs, sex and alcohol, youths whose ideal goal is to finish school or make it though the day or night; and understanding that this will be a slow and sometimes risky undertaking. We believe that every child has a life of promise no matter what the circumstances he or she is surrounded by or what ever he or she has had to endure or no matter the situation he or she was born into. (visit our website for more info)