Youth Venture

L.I.F.T. (Leadership, Intellect, & Femininity Training) is geared toward enhancing the overall development of troubled inner city girls.

L.I.F.T. will particularly target young girls who are from low-income families, shelters, foster homes, and general broken-home life. L.I.F.T. will serve as an intensive training program for these females. The organization will shape their overall development by teaching them leadership traits, enhancing their overall intellectual capability, and teaching them etiquette and proper feminine/graceful habits that will strengthen their interpersonal and intrapersonal character. My goal is for these skills to carry them from childhood to adulthood. The purpose of this organization is to "uplift" the girls' overall development so that they, in turn, can become leaders and scholars of their community -- whether in the classroom, the home environment, their place of worship, or future work place. To often, girls living in the inner-city have challenges that defect their overall development, challenges that take away from their focus on the future, challenges that put a damper on applying themselves in school and in social situations, challenges that lead them to lose trust in others, challenges that hurt and crush their inner being, challenges that make them grow up quickly and take on too much responsibility at a young age. Girls in this situation can benefit from the guidance of someone from the same background, close to their age group. My focus is to make the girls' transition into adolescence easier in all ways possible. Because of this, the topics to be covered reflect things that many youngsters, especially those from the inner city, struggle with at some point in their life. The topics (which may vary according to age) include sibling rivalry, parent rivalry, suicide prevention, pregnancy prevention, abstinence, jealousy, hatred, lying & honesty, leadership, etiquette, self-presentation (hygiene & attire), the importance of education, self-esteem, good and bad friendships, anger management, coping with living in poverty, planning for the future, changing bad habits, avoiding violence, teen pregnancy prevention, drug prevention, being physically healthy (exercising and eating), coping with the negative influences in popular culture/media, community service, team work, and public speaking/ oratorical skills.