PRIORITIES
INNERCITY WEIGHTLIFTING
A plan for a safer city
Our mission is to reduce violence and promote professional, personal and academic achievement among urban youth. We work with young people at the highest risk for violence in order to reduce youth violence by getting our students off the streets and into the gym, where they are empowered with the confidence and positive support needed to say no to violence and yes to opportunity.
Strategy for Impact
Students want to come to InnerCity Weightlifting. Once there, this interest evolves towards more positive and complex goals such as finishing school, getting a job, eventually leaving a gang. They see peers whom they respect making these choices, and they see adults whom they have come to respect supporting these choices. The path to change suddenly comes into focus.
Students most committed are eligible for an in-house career track in personal training and job opportunities running the InnerCity Weightlifting training locations, a career path that deepens them in a support system that has helped guide them through the most difficult decision points.
Boston Globe Article
The May 5th edition of the Boston Globe featured a front page article on the organization which captures the essence of its mission. I invite you to check it out. Click here for full article.
BURLINGTON COMMUNITY LIFE CENTER
The Burlington Community Life Center (BCLC) is a Town department responsible for providing mental health and social services to families with adolescents and young adults. BCLC also provides information and referral services for ALL residents regardless of age. Services provided by the BCLC include:
- Working with adults and young people on diverse problems such as drug and alcohol use, parenting skills, family conflict, marriage and relationship problems, depression and suicide, neglect and the like.
- Individual, group, and family therapy services.
- Meets regularly with the Burlington Clergy Association as well as local and regional meetings of agencies and programs concerned with mental health or social services (Lahey Clinic's Initiative Committee on Domestic Violence, Burlington's Health Advisory Committee, and other adolescent service organizations.)
- People Helping People, Inc. - an umbrella organization made up of community volunteers who oversee and coordinate the efforts of three established groups: Holiday Program, Covenant for Basic Needs, and the Community Pantry.
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