RAPPING MENTOR’S GOOD KIDS PROGRAM works with children 11-17 and uses Per-
forming Arts training as a means of creating a form of self-expression for these youth
and also generates peer prevention messages that they create and perform in the form
of songs, raps, and skits.
FATHERS FIRST is a male focused teen pregnancy prevention program designed to pro-
mote and develop male responsibility in teen parenting.
KNIGHT WRITERS is a project that provides media internships for Metropolitan Detroit
high school students and trains these individuals in radio and television pre-production,
production, and post-production. The Knight Writers, who focus is first on writing skills,
create, named, air, and evaluate their own live and recorded television and radio segments.
Such segments like “Teen Talk” and Strictly Sports” are produced and aired either in a live
or recorded format that airs on WADL TV Detroit and WCHB AM 1200.
DAUGHTER WITHOUT DADS works with teen and young adult women to provide support
groups that will discuss their challenges, assist them in developing coping mechanisms,
and will also target some of the consequences of father’s absences like human trafficking, promiscuity, substance abuse, and domestic abuse.
I CAN SEE MY FUTURE PROGRAM program targets Wayne County youth, females, ages
13-19 who are in one of the following categories; truant in school, teen mothers or at risk
of unplanned pregnancy, youthful offenders on probation, those who are presently not en-
rolled in school, and also targets young women vulnerable to be exposed to “human
trafficking” or who have already been immersed in the same due to drugs and alcohol.