Program areas at Greater Life
Family Resource Center-LifeLine / Caring About People (CAP); Programs of our Metropolitan Urban Family Institute (MUFI), serves youth & families who are unserved, underserved, overlooked, at risk, and improverished / indigent; designed to address insecurities including food/meals, health & wellness, clothing, housing, employment, education, mental health, neighborhood / community safety, ect. Offering intake & case management for wrap-a-round servicing Virtually, Hybrid & onsite; including food pantry / healthy eating / vouchers, medical referrals, transportation vouchers, counseling, memorials, safety training, community organizing, employability, and referrals to collaborative agencies & professionals; to ultimately help reduce repetivite "poverty mindset", and overall negative behaviors otherwise exhibited with desperation.
Community Outreach Center engages street outreach workers with goal of identifying youth who have fallen through the cracks, impoverished, gang influenced, criminally challeged, displaced, orphaned, homeless, etc. Including released incarcerated youth, safe haven daily programs and follow-up services include; Virtually, Hybrid & onsite; Metropolitan Urban Leadership Institute (MULI), Kidstitute Education Enrichment Program (KEEP), Girls In Real Life Situations (GIRLS), healthy eating, and Faith in Life discussions; to achieve career mapping/succession, educational & financial literacy, racial & social justice trauma intervention, community leadership, volunteerism, etc.; thus resulting in improved behavior, life-skills, and community-building, reflected via report cards, family interviews, and staff/volunteer observations.
Camping, scouting, and retreats; Virtually, Hybrid & on-site year-round; to offer character-building, career exploration, field trips, college visits, and leadership development to those most likly to become more productive members of society upon exposure, which provides a positive impact for peers, family members, communities, city, state, nation & world.