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Program Overview
The youth activities are divided into the following three categories of: recreational enrichment, educational support and community service. The recreational enrichment includes sport camps, arts/cultural events, and youth conferences. The community service activities include feeding the homeless in Downtown Los Angeles, graphite removal, and helping senior citizens. The educational support services include college and corporate tours, college preparation workshops, homework assistance, and entrepreneurial project training.
Program Highlights:
Results from our annual college tour of the University of Southern California survey revealed that 90% of youth (between the ages of 8 to 15 years old) never visited a college campus prior to the tour. The average attendance of our youth sports camp is over one hundred and fifty youth.
There is an average of 150 student athletes who participate in the Annual Go Beyond The GAME " Awesome AZ" Prep Football Camp, a 200% increase from our first camp in 2001.
In 2005 we will introducing the Annual Go Beyond The G.A.M.E. High School Junior Varsity Football Passing League Tournament. We are targeting 12 high schools from various leagues around the city. The aim of this event is instill the principal of Gratitude, Attitude, Motivation and Education in freshman entering High School.
The UMMA Community Clinic and Dr. Altaf's medical associates from Kaiser Permanente provide a very important health component to our program. Since 2001 there staff have provided over 150 free sport examination physicals free of charge. UMMA Community clinic which is located in the heart of South Central Los Angeles at 711 W. Florence Ave., Los Angeles, Ca 90044 also offers examinations after the camp for student athlete who were not present. This is an unprecedented service that GBG greatly appreciated and studying ways to enhance in the future.
"Spurred by evidence that 60% of Americans are too sedentary and 61% are overweight or obese."
By Melissa Healy, Times Staff Writer
Annual College Life Day Tours:
For the past four years GBG has taken a over hundred group of students, ranging in ages from 8-17, on a tour of the USC campus and to a USC football game. This is one of a few programs that we have, to motivate children to continue into higher education, as well as expose them to a different lifestyle. Many of the children who attend the college tour are from the inner city where motivation as well as exposure to settings such as USC is minimal; in fact some of the children had never been on a college campus.
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