Raze Youth is a program sponsored by Greater Hope Restoration Ministries who is committed to providing a quality programs to youth in and around Southwestern Pennsylvania. 

 

All children are not at risk and all at-risk students are not from urban areas. However, all children benefit from quality youth programs.   Statistics show that after-school programs have positive effects on academic success, social and emotional behavior, and provide opportunities for enrichment for all types of children no matter what their economic, social or geographical background may be.

 

It is a well-known fact that self-expression is key to developing identity, confidence and a sense of belonging.  However many youth have not found healthy and positive forms or outlets for self expression.  This often breeds frustration and opens the door for unhealthy behaviors and activities  in and effort to find ones self in an ever changing world.  Self expression through the arts, media, athletics is a form of communication that will help our students express what they want and expect out of life and it will help them to make steps toward achieving those goals.  Goals which can be both measurable and attainable.

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As the CEO of Greater Hope Restoration Ministries "GHRM", I have first hand knowledge of how an after school program that focuses on the arts and media technology can transform the lives of children who have struggled with school attendance, disciplinary problems, unsafe home conditions and such much more.  I am not a novice to after school programing and have well over 10 years of experience in program development. Many of the students for our programs have gone on to higher education, earned college degrees, now have careers in the medical field while others have experienced transformations in behavior and positive community involvement and many are now volunteering in GHRM outreach programs.  
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Our program works because it is founded on and centered in love, acceptance and support for our students.