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Smart Choice Outreach Inc. Dorothy Spears McLeod, Chief Executive Director. Our Mission is to ensure that youth have access to programs that stimulate and transform their minds, bodies, and spirits. . Smart Choice Outreach Center Inc. .
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Smart Choice Outreach Inc. Dorothy Spears McLeod, Chief Executive Director Our Mission is to ensure that youth have access to programs that stimulate and transform their minds, bodies, and spirits.
Smart Choice Outreach Center Inc. • Smart Choice Outreach Center Inc. is a nonprofit mentoring and tutoring youth organization that was established in 2005. • Our service are made available to all Harnett County Youth between the ages of 4-18 and their families. • We are a Prevention Organization. • Our Programs are committed to the youth that we serve. • We are pleased to announce that we have a 95% graduation rate in which all our students are currently in college.
Smart Choice Outreach Inc. • Statement of the Problem • Smart Choice focus is prevention structured to address factors that attribute to youth undisciplined behaviors, lack of positive self-image, absence of positive role models. Youth strengths, needs/issues will be defined during prescreening contacts with parents/guardians and youth. Group sessions will help in identifying appropriate positive behaviors and build on youth strengths. Youths needing intensive counseling will be referred to a Mental Health Provider.
Smart Choice Outreach Center Inc. • Increasing academic performance • Increasing positive, personal and social skills • Developing skills to function as a self-directed person • Teaching principals involved in making moral and ethically choices • Developing the capacity to cope with change through an understanding of peer pressure Our educational goals include: • Negative of gangs and discipline behavior • Providing college planning and financial information to disadvantaged families • Providing career awareness and preparation for post secondary education • Providing one-on-one and group mentoring • Summer food Program
Smart Choice Outreach Inc. • Measurable Objectives • Youth Participation and attendance • Improved school performance • Improved academic achievement • EOG Scores
Smart Choice Outreach Center Inc. Our Program currently works in collaboration with:
Smart Choice Outreach Center Inc. Services we offer:
Smart Choice Pictures of Different Activities Tying Neck Ties Class Girl Scouts Camp Retreat Recreational Activities
Smart Choice Pictures of Different Activities Social Outing Family and Friends Homework Guest Speaker
Smart Choice Pictures of Different Activities Visit to the Zoo Sports New York City
Smart Choice Outreach Center Inc. Motto Feeding Minds and Bodies “Ten years from now I hope to have established an educational/recreational teen center in Harnett County. Our teens are crying out for help and the evil forcers are trying to steal, kill and destroy our youth. If I can save one child at a time then I feel as though my mission and goals are not in vain.” – Dorothy Spears McLeod