IMPACT

Who can partner with THE MAN-UP CLUB?

• Schools
• CommunityOrganizations
• For profit Businesses
• Juvenile Justice System
• Churches
• Non Profit Organizations

Services We Provide

• One-on-one & group mentoring
• Behavior intervention
• Consulting to increase the effectiveness of school programs concerning young men of color
• Connecting student to additional mentors and social services in the metro area
• Life coaching
• Facilitates student growth by resource sharing and networking
• Provide critical feedback in key areas, such as communications, interpersonal relationships, technical abilities, social, life and leadership skills
• Serving as a student advocate and liaison within the Juvenile Justice System

Our Impact on Youth, Education & Community?
Through meaningful engagement, coaching, and consistent accountability, the Man-Up Club has impacted young men of color in the following ways:

Youth Impact

• Decrease in behavior referrals
• Decrease in out of school suspensions
• Decrease in tardiness and absence
• Encouraging positive behavior
• Improving academic productivity
• Develop coping skills
• Enhancing social development
• Challenging students to move beyond their comfort zone
• Focuses on the students holistic development
• Sharpen students focus on why their education is important
• Expose students to specific skills and knowledge that are relevant to their personal goals
• Enhancing student study habits
• Creating a peer-to-peer mentoring culture
• Increase in students who actively participated and engaged school activities, and additional learning programs
• Develop our participants to become critical thinkers
• Unpack the talents, gifts and skills of each participant

Educational Impact

• Increase in grade point average
• Creates a safer learning environment
• Improve cultural awareness of their learning and social environments to boost overall success and achievement
• To foster strong relationships between students and the administration
• Provided consistent accountability towards accomplishing graduation

Community Impact

• Exposure beyond inner city life
• Provide after school accountability through mentorship and engagement
• Providing structured activities after school
• Create safer streets by reduce crime, violence & minimize conflict among youth
• Create job opportunities
• Fosters a higher level of accountability for the lives and future of young black males.
• Instill fundamental values of respecting each other, family and community.
• Man Up club interrupt the cycle of violence by creating a new normal for the young black male, by making it “Cool” to be successful.
• Develop outreach-intervention & advocacy strategies by establishing a rapport with police 
through dialog outside of a response to violence
• Address the traumatic effects of fatherlessness suffered by many of our participants by providing a healthy pool of caring professional black men to positively influence, engage and impact the lives of our young men
• Hand selected mentor leaders to become father figures to all participants.
• Create a sense of family structure and dynamics though a shared sit down meals over 
conversations, building a life-long network and brotherhood
• Establish Man Up as a long term community support organization for black males to recover 
from systemic failures
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Establish Man Up as a preferred safe haven for disadvantaged and highly at-risk youth