2021 COMBAT Mid-Year Funding: $54,007.00

in Hickman Mills Prevention Coalition's Own Words

HMPC will be in relationship with several community agencies to achieve the following program goals:

• Implement an 8-week process for approximately 20-25 participants to begin June 2021 and continue to June 2022, with Job Readiness/Preparedness sessions, Life / Social Skills and Mental Health support, and 2 community service projects in South Kansas City and around the surrounding areas.
  
  
• The participants will be representing Hickman Mills School District and Jackson County Family Court.  The youth selected to participate in the project will be meeting 3 days a week throughout the summer and every month during the school year, continuing to work as well develop community leadership skills.
  
  
• There will be 3 components to the project:
  
  Job Readiness/Preparedness - training on job searching, researching, dressing for success, conflict resolution in the workplace, and job retention.
  
  Life and Social Skills training - sessions on self-esteem, self-identity, good decision making, goal setting, healthy relationships, conflict resolution and avoidance, effective communication, listening and hearing, table etiquette, grooming and health, as well as the proper uses of social media.
  
  This component will also address the re-establishment of self; determining the worth of self and their own legacy (peer pressure vs. historical pressure), as well as addressing how trauma can effect our excellence.
  
  Community Service and Leadership - from qualitative and quantitative data, determine 2 community service projects that will effective the Hickman Mills community and surrounding areas. These projects could be clean-up projects, building projects, or mentoring projects.
  
  
• HMPC's community partners will include First Call of Kansas City, Youth Guidance, and Bridge Leadership Academy.  HMPC will work with several community partners for job shadowing, guest speakers, as well as OJT (on the job training) locations for training purposes.