Legacy institute 2014

LEGACY Youth Development Institute

2014

1290 S e ve n t h S t re e t

Suite 5

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S lidel l

LA 70458

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About us LEGACY速 Institute

Vision and Mission Statement

LEGACY Youth Development Institute is a career mentoring and workforce readiness initiative to help young people succeed in school, work and life. LEGACY Institute is a partnership with the adult professional community to educate, equip, and empower the youth by: fostering applied skills, exposing them to a wide range of careers, and offering youth development solutions (mentoring, guidance and crisis intervention).

LEGACY Institute endeavors to mentor young people to become responsible citizens with a high degree of self-reliance, resourcefulness, positive character, and the desire and skills to contribute to the economy. The program offers caring mentors from the community, composed of men and women who trust and believe in young people, and who are willin to invest time and resources into developing responsible young adults.

The program fosters commitment to young people that will promote life skills development, critical thinking, interpersonal skills development, and awarenesss of a diverse range of careers. LEGACY personnel in partnership with successful business and community leaders invest from their expertise and experience tto present career and workforce readiness mentoring programs that prepare youth and young adults for future careers.

Seminars and workshops delivered through the program are designed to present real-world career experiences to encourgage youth to stay engagedin their pursuit of education while laying a foundation for their future in the workforce. Learning environments are purposed to equip participants with the best job application skills, communication skills, and other tranferable skills skills necessary for success.

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VISION STATEMENT:

To Present real-world career experiences and opportunities to teenagers and young adults to equip them for sucessfull pursuit of their choice careers.

MISSION STATEMENT:

To Educate, equip, and empower young people with career and workfoce readiness tools and resources.

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Program Approach Life Skills Development

Career Exposure

Youth Development Solutions

The LEGACY Institute Life Skills Development approach empasizes transferable skills that are crucial to making youth ready for post-secondary education as well as marketable for future employment. Program participants are encouraged and inspired to graduate with their GED. The program presents current career market trends while helping participants embrace skills necessary to keep up with those trends. Some of the crucial skills empbasized by the program include, but are not limited to: job application procedures, professionalism, time management, confilict management, problem solving, critical thinking, goal setting, and computer proficiency..

LEGACY Institute’s Career Exposure approach focuses on incorporating high quality seminars and workshops by experts in various professions and careers. Experiential learning through career-based projects, internships, and summer employment opportunities with local businesses will also provide avenues for career awareness to select participants. With growing partnerships between LEGACY Institute and local businesses, the program will the program will place interns based on participant career match. The program will maintain a good understanding of various industries and their needs in order to deliver relevant information to participants.

LEGACY Institute provides various services, directly and indirectly, to inspire young men and women to stay engaged in their educational pursuit. In addition the program also equips participants with tools to help them overcome challenges.

• Tutoring and Reading Intervention • Educational and Career Mapping • Educational Assessment • College Readiness • College and Scholarship Application Assistance • Crisis Intervention and Counseling • Goal Setting and Life Planning • Soft Skills Development and Coaching

Featured Workshops

01 Financial Fitness

02 Graphic Designing

03 S.T.E.M.

Educating and equipping young people with wisdom and adeqate tools for good financial management.

Financial Fitness focuses on encouraging the best personal financial management practices while introducing the participants to a variety of careers within the the Financial Manangement Industry. The workshops introduces participants to basics of banking, savings, budgeting, bill management and credit card education.

Assisting young people who have the creative potential essential for the graphic marketing industry is the main objective of the Graphic Designing workshops.

LEGACY Institute’s Graphic Designing workshops and seminars are designed to unveil the latest trends and software developments for the market while providing hands-on exepriences essential to establishing a good foundation for participants. Participants will appreciate the power of graphics in branding and marketing.

STEM Education plays a critical role in the workforce and in economic development. The mission of our Science, Technology, Engineering and Math workshops is to plant the seed for those participants in our program who have an inclination towards the field. To deliver the best STEM program LEGACY Institute partners with scientists and engineering experts from NASA, the Naval Research Center and Textron. We also partner with filming technicians for workshops in the industry.

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Programs LEGACY速 Institute Seminars and Workshops

LEGACY速 Summer Institute

LEGACY速 Youth Initiatives

LEGACY Institute is a year-round career mentoring and workforce readiness program. During the course of the school year participants engage in seminars and workshops once each month. Workshops and seminars are designed and delivered in partnership with the adult professional community to educate, equip, and empower the youth by: fostering applied skills, exposing them to a wide range of careers.

In addition to the featured workshops and seminars, participants also engage in a wide range of interactive workshops and seminars specific to the following career experiences: * Filmmaking and Filming Technology * Crime Scene Investigations and Forensics * Law Enforcement * Website Designing * Social Media Marketing * Mixed Media Arts * Photography and Photography Technology

LEGACY Summer Institute is offered in the Summer months and features a series of focused Seminars and workshops delivered over a period of between two and four weeks. Participants attend workshops on a daily basis (Monday - Friday), and each week features a specific career industry.

LEGACY Summer Institute is also a networking platform for young people and business owners who may be interested in offering summer internships to high school students or job shadowing opportunities to interested students. The Institute will identify those opportunities and match program participants according to their career interests and abilities.

LEGACY Summer Institute will present opportunities for entrepreneurship and business planning for participant who have certain skills and talents to encourage strategic thinking. Participants with outstanding graphic designing, website designing, game designing and other skills will be assisted through the process of business planning.

LEGACY Youth Development Institute offers a variety of initiatives with a mission to provide solutions for success in life to youth and young adults. LEGACY Institute is designed to also help connect youth to specific resources when needed.

The Board of Directors, personnel and volunteers of the Institute realize and understand that young people today are faced with some very unique challenges and the need to provide resources and services that facilitate successful navigation to overcome such challenges increases steadily. The program is proactive in identifying resources to assist young people with issues of crisis management, counseling, discipline, family crisis intervention, and other closely related issues.

LEGACY Institute also provides services to assist parents of college bound students with college applications, college scholarship research and application, and college choice guidance based on study interest and academic success.

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Partnerships Program Partnership LEGACY Institute’s approach to career mentoring and workforce readiness is the village approach, and we strongly believe that “it takes the village to raise a child.” Resources and tools for the future success of the young generation exist within the “village.”

Slidell Memorial Hospital Community Outreach Center

Local Middle & High Schools

Professional Volunteers

The program also continues to partner with Middle Schools and High Schools within the Greater New Orleans Area (St. Tammany Parish, Orleans Parish, and Jefferson Parish) to offer various mentoring program and services as needed.

Professional volunteers define LEGACY Institute’s career mentoring and workforce readiness program.

These successful men and women give of their time, knowledge and expertise by facilitating workshops and seminars, and in some cases above and beyond by offering intenships and job-shadowing opportunities to LEGACY Institute participants.

The impact that our profesional volunteers make is “priceless!”

Community

LEGACY Institute has a standing program partnership with Slidell Memorial Community Outreach Center.

This partnership facilitates the use of Slidell Memorial Hospital educational facilities to host workshops and seminars each month.

Without the partnership with parents, guardians, teachers, and youth ministers in the community, our efforts to assist teenagers and young adults are very limited. The partnership with parents and guardians of teenagers, as well as youth workers in our communitycontributes greatly to the value and success of LEGACY Institute’s programs and services. We are intentional about growing this community network.

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Investors Investors are our biggest partners as they provide financial support and stability. We are thankful for Investors who help us make a difference in the lives of young people in our community.

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1290 S e ve n t h S t re e t

Suite 5

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S lidel l

LA 70458

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