We construct & keep a safety-net of community supports around our youth.

We work with law enforcement, child-serving public agencies & other non-profits to end the commercial sexual exploitation of children through public awareness campaigns & legislative action.

Our staff know how to access quality community services for our youth & also know how to navigate the complex social services system from a professional and a personal vantage point.

Many of our staff live in the same neighborhoods as our youth. This proximity allows them to have first hand knowledge of the obstacles that our youth face on a daily basis.

The Civic Action Corps Initiative – Through a grant from theDepartment of Labor, RYI and three Roxbury based non profitorganizations collaborate to provide; educational assistance, lifecoaching, health services, skills training in the building trades,and a stipend to young people who have been involved with thejuvenile justice system.

Thinking for A Change - Our DYS Youth whoparticipate in, and complete the 25 module,Thinking for A Change violence preventioncurriculum receive a stipend for every hourthat they spend in class and on homework andalso full funding for driver education classes.

We have remained innovative & haveimplemented programming in responseto the changing needs of our youth. The most recent of these include:

Parent Time Group

A weekly support group for parents of DYS involved youth. The goals of Parent Time include: • To support parents as they navigate the DYS system. • To provide a safe place for parents to express their feelings

and relieve stress.• To provide parents with the opportunity to meet other

parents facing similar issues.• To help parents gain a little more insight into their

children’s behavior.

It will be difficult for them to win this battle without your

help. The financial and moral support of individuals like

you, will provide our Boston Youth the opportunity to break out of the cycles of

violence, poverty and victimization and into happy

successful futures.

Our Boston Youth are fighting a daunting economic and racial battle that causes

them to live in conditions that mirror those of

developing third world countries.

Boston cannot afford to lose another generation of inner city youth to incarceration, drug use, early death, child commercial sexual exploitation and violence. The economic, human and creative losses are much too costly to ignore.

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