Mission Statement
The S.T.A.N.D. (Sustainable Transformation Allowing New Direction) Power Group Alternatives Credible Messenger Mentoring's mission is to establish healthy, trusting, life-changing relationships, through a culturally relevant, father-focused healing-centered transformational process, offered to youth and young adults, ages 14 to 24, who have been or who are at risk of being impacted by gang culture, violence, and recruitment, by providing power group prevention and intervention programs and services, as well as, sustainable resource support.
Program Objectives
S.T.A.N.D utilizes lived experience and evidence-based practices to deliver intervention and prevention support services that eliminate barriers and unlearn behaviors that can lead to power group involvement.