ELIJAH'S HOUSE...

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Seeks to cultivate personal growth and intellectual development of at-risk inner city youth through hands-on skills training and job development. Urban Teen Magazine is one of their projects. (West Side of Chicago)

Mission Statement

Elijah's
House mission is to provide education through job training and skills
development for youth and young adults ages 13 through 24 years.

Objective

Elijah's
House objective is to inspire and enable all young people, especially
those from disadvantaged circumstances, to realize their full potential
as productive, responsible and caring citizens.

Purpose

Education, Enrichment, Job Training and Self Development

The
purpose of Elijah’s House is to provide youth with the tools necessary
for equipping them for real-life work experiences that move them
towards becoming productive, healthy and prosperous in mind, body and
soul.

Elijah’s
House provides youth with opportunities that bridge the gap between
education and workplace environment through the involvement of job
training, hands-on activities and interactive programming that allows
them to develop skills within a specific field, skill or trade.

Goals

The
goal of Elijah's House is to promote higher education that encourages
young people to stay in school and to proceed with confidence to
college and perhaps graduate school.

Elijah's
House programs are designed to expose youth to a professional
discipline which focuses on critical workplace skills, such as
leadership, teamwork and collaboration and brainstorming.

Elijah’s House Programming Initiative

Elijah's
House programs are a means for youth to redirect their behavior,
channel their creativity, develop a job skill and get paid. Our
programs are designed with youth in mind and act as a deterrent to
negative influences such as drug selling, drug usage, truancy,
theft and gang involvement. Elijah's House believes teens need to
believe they have a future, which is why it is important to open up
doors of opportunity to provide youth with a wider scope of interests
that enabled them to recognize their abilities and talents in ways that
help them dream and achieve far more than what they think. All our
programs have become a vehicle that aid youth in developing self
confidence, values and morals, moving them towards positive
self-expression, creativity, and entrepreneurship and leading positive
lives. Our program design offers youth combined educational and
workplace opportunities that encouraged low-income teens to hope for
better a future.

Established

Elijah's House was established in October, 2003 and was an umbrella organization under The Amalgamated Developmental Center. Our
commitment throughout the years has been devoted to building
relationships within the community by providing life-enhancing programs
and character building through youth development for at risk inner city
youth.

Elijah's
House is a faith-based organization supported under Goodcity, NFP an
organization which acts as Fiscal Agent to Elijah's House
and provides our organization with 501c3 status. Elijah's House is
entering its 4th year of providing education through job training and
youth development. Located on the Westside of Chicago, Elijah's
House is faithful to its mission by providing life-enhancing
programs and empowering youth to think beyond what they see.