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New York, NY 10010
212-949-4800
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HOPE Leadership Academy
The HOPE Leadership Academy ("HOPE") was created in the aftermath of September 11th to help New York City youth address the violence, victimization and hopelessness affecting their everyday lives.
The HOPE Leadership Academy provides adolescents with a physical and emotional safe place to process complex feelings and unspoken fears, derive strength from their experiences and feel empowered rather than hopeless. The HOPE program model presents youth with a stabilizing network of support that includes casework management, peer leadership training, arts programming, technology instruction, culinary arts, academic counseling and job readiness.
Youth are provided with the tools to become community educators, advocates and leaders, and empowered to utilize their new skills and self-confidence to make changes in their lives, neighborhoods and world. HOPE is located in a storefront teen center in the Robert A. Taft public housing complex, an extension of our Dunlevy Milbank Campus in Central Harlem. Today, there are six Hope Leadership Academy satellite sites across Children’s Aid.
For more information about this program, please contact Danny Morris at (212) 987-5648.
