MISSION STATEMENT

WHAT IS IT "TEEN-FRIENDLY GREATER NEW ORLEANS"?
A massive campaign to 1) raise awareness about the teen crisis looming over the Greater New Orleans community and 2) leverage 1:1 dollar matches for the $120,000 leadership award received from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. This campaign will:
  1. Create a support umbrella for neighborhood youth programs identified by YOUTHanasia Foundation. These programs will be expanded to accommodate more youth in an effort to decrease the repeat offender rate at local juvenile detention centers and decrease the number of adolescents idle during out of school time hours.
  2. Construct (2) state of the art teen centers. One to be located in Jefferson Parish, and one to be located in Orleans Parish.
  3. Launch www.teenfriendlygno.com . A website dedicated to individual donors. Donors who donate $40 or more, will receive a free t-shirt that reads (on the front): Rebuilding Greater New Orleans? Got Teens?. The back of each shirt reads: Visit www.teenfriendlygno.com TODAY!
  4. Catapult the cause of a “teen-friendly Greater New Orleans” into national and international spotlight via the mass production of 10,000 posters to be sent to heads of major companies, elected officials, heads of state, college presidents, national organizations, national sports agencies, major television networks, and celebrity foundations.
  5. Launch Final Fridayz: The Ultimate Teen Experience. Final Fridayz is a series that consists of a citywide teen event happening every last Friday in the month. Events such as a Citywide Teen Talent Show, and a Celebrity Look-a-Like Bash have been planned to give teenagers something to look forward to, and something to do in a city that caters to adults!




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