This is a multi-component, community-based program to prevent violent behavior among African American adolescents. The objective is to reduce violence rates in at-risk and vulnerable populations.
The program integrated three approaches:
1) Counseling and mentoring focused on the African-American population;
2) Vocational training and job placement; and
3) Extracurricular entrepreneurship training.
The intervention consists of strengthening African American identity and culture, as well as fostering a positive attitude and preventing engagement in risky behaviors, which is addressed in two seminars per week and with tutor monitoring for eight months. The program’s intervention ends with a camp night, where tutors and adolescents hold a graduation ceremony.