Adopt-A-Friend Services

 

 

Program 1

 

Mentoring and counseling

 

Adopt-A-Friend believe people have better chance of succeeding in life when they have plan of action for goals they want to achieve and successful or professional individuals who can guide them. Our mentoring program is design as a two ways program, youth meeting leaders at the leaders’ places of business and leaders meeting the youth in their communities. We connect the youth with people they admire the most for coaching and mentorship. Our professional counseling encompasses all family/communal issues, cases that need to be referred to appropriate agencies are referred to those agencies whenever is necessary.

 

 

Program 2

 

Family Services

 

Adopt-A-Friend’s weekly ‘Tea-Out-Stress’ brings community members to socialize and share their professional and personal experiences with others. These meetings are free and open to the public. Each week important family/community issues are discussed and referrals are made to appropriate services providers. A lot of family/community problems are being prevented with early interventions from these events. Topics discussed include family preservation, social empowerment, financial literacy, economic /community development, legal issues, causes of and solutions to crimes, interfaith collaborations, juvenile issues, education, civic engagement, global issues, technology, sports, entertainment, law enforcement, leadership, investments, just to name a few.

 

Adopt-A-Friend also collects and distributes charitable donations to those in need, locally and internationally to prevent despotic living conditions. 

 

 

Program 3

 

Peace, Participation & Prosperity

 

Adopt-A-Friend Community Center Facilitates 12 Public Days “Peace, Participation & Prosperity’. These events are designed for educational purposes only. Since we all know that knowledge is power, Adopt-A-Friend believes providing pertinent information to the community becomes a natural part to what it does. The twelve days are: Community Day, Cultural Day, Health Day, Youth Day, Environment Day, Education Day, Civic Day, Entrepreneur Day, Christian Day, Judaism Day, Islamic Day and Peace Day. All these days are individually sponsored by interested individuals and organizations and they are free and open to the public. Please check our website to see their actual dates.  

 

 

Program 4

Adopt-A-Success™

 

Adopt-A-Success is a two part social empowerment program. It came about through a train ride taken by one of Adopt-A-Friend’s board members. This individual was traveling to a destination in New York City that required changing of several trains. While transferring from train to train, he observed that on each one most of the Caucasian passengers were reading books, National daily papers or something else, at the same time he saw most of the minority passengers were either listening to music or doing nothing at all. After the trip, he shared his observation with the board and sought help in finding ways to encourage book reading program, especially in low-income communities. The   board welcomed the idea and decided to start a monthly group book reading for its members, as well as establishing an investment club for investment and financial literacy. Adopt-A-friend believes that one’s success or failure in life is primarily determined by the type of information one is acquiring and acting on. Please see our Attitude Academy.

 

 

Program 5

 

Trees-For-Humanity™

 

The World has always been made of opposites. While some build, others destroy, some laugh, others cry… a life of weddings and funerals, a life of births and deaths. On that fateful day, September 11, 2001 at about the same time when thousands of innocent souls were taken, a foundation was being laid for the first time in the Bronx, a private parochial school. 

The Islamic Leadership School under the aegis of the Islamic Cultural Center of North America was established on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. With the help of Adopt-A-Friend board members. Because of this coincidence and the role this school played in healing the wounds of 9/11, Adopt-A-Friend is embarking on a tree planting campaign-Tree-for-Humanity. While Adopt-A-Friend does not promote any one particular religion on its programs, it intend to plant as many trees as the number of innocent lives lost on 9/11 or more world-wide.  This will be done in collaboration with world leaders and community organizations that have shown interest for this campaign.  Sponsors’ information would be provided and attached to the tree(s) as well as the list of those in whose memoriam the tree(s) is/are planted. For individuals and organizations wishing to be part of this project can contact the Adopt-A-Friend Inc. Please join us as we plant our Trees for Humanity, trees of hope…

 

 

Program 6

 

Emergency Family Member™

           

Emergency Family Members came about after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. Watching people needlessly died and stranded for days without help in the heart of the most economically advanced society ever built, we decided to do something about future similar devastations, natural or manmade, national or international.  While we can’t stop natural disasters from happening, we can minimize the painful effect they can have on their victims. Emergency Family Member™ (EFM) is one of the newest innovative humanitarian programs designed by Adopt-A-Friend, Inc. The program enables the victims of major disasters to receive free transportation and temporary room on board in a safer yet closer locality anywhere in the nation.  Adopt-A-Friend solicits and encourages people to open their hearts, homes, Houses of worship, transportation, and wallets to their neighbors in case of emergency. Register to become a member before tragedy strikes in your community, you never know.

 

 

Program 7

 

Public Emergency Management Adherence™ (PEMA)

 

Public Emergency Management Adherence is a project designed primarily for youth as part of Adopt-A-Friend’s after-school projects. It is a training program to prevent and control the unruly behavior during riots, disasters or community unrests.  PEMA is made up of four components: Public Security, Public Safety, Public Assistance and Public Collaboration.  Application of each component is taught in detail to the students so that in difficult times rowdy public behavior is minimized, especially from the youth in affected areas.  PEMA training is also recommended for all adults and school-aged children. You can use our website or the emergency hotline to participate 24/7.

 

 

Program 8

 

Urban Educational Foundation™

 

After-school program activity entails having an extended program for school going children to help them with homework, academics, character education, physical education and other related after school activities. Qualified teachers from the community are recruited to teach their respective subject expertise from 3:30 pm to 7:00 pm, Monday to Friday, and leadership and entrepreneurship classes are offered on weekends. Adopt-A-Friend believes that it takes a village to strengthen children’s social and academic well being.

 

 

 

Program 9

 

Community Outreach

 

                   Adopt-A-Friend community outreach transcends religion, race, gender, social status or nationality.  Adopt-A-Friend’s mission is to foster love, respect, and friendship among community members. All its programs are open to the public.             Adopt-A-Friend has facilitated numerous interfaith and intercultural events, and it will continue to promote dialogue of all people.  It reaches out to the under-serve and new immigrant families to help with various services that they may need help with. Preventing hate crimes and discrimination of all forms is a major part of Adopt-A-Friend’s mission. 

 

 

Program 10

 

End illiteracy Now (EIN). The primary target for EIN is new immigrants, English Language Learners and high school dropouts. We say never too late to learn to read.

 

Program 11

 

Annual Award Dinner.

 

Adopt-A-Friend Humanitarian Leadership Award™ is given yearly to qualified individuals who are making difference in their respective communities. Most of The popular award programs we see on television screens are given to people who have already been famous contrary to Adopt-A-Friend’s which targets less known good-doers.  The awards are both for adults and children. Often time ordinary people who are providing extra ordinary services in their communities would go unnoticed and unrecognized.

 

 

Program 12

 

Child Care Coop

 

Adopt-A-Friend Child Care Coop is a virtual online child care program. Adopt-A-Friend believes that every child belongs to our extended community family and should therefore be able to feel safe and well regardless of whose care in the community he/she is in. All potential babysitters, child care providers and those who may need babysitting or child care services can register with us online seven days a week. When it comes to caring our precious children, proper screening is nonnegotiable.

 

 

 

 

 

Program 13

 

Adopt-A-Friend Social Services

 

Adopt-A-Friend’s founders have been continually providing preventive and educational services in New York City for over twenty years.  As a result of their visible active involvement in helping families to safely deal with various issues, in 2008 Adopt-A-Friend was selected by New York City Children’s Services to be its Fiscal Conduit for Soundview Community Coalition, one of the nineteen Community Partnership Initiatives the Children’s Services has been establishing through New York City. Adopt-A-Friend Social Services, in Partnership with New York City Children’s Services, provides adoption, foster care and general preventive services. Coincidentally, Soundview Community where Adopt-A-Friend is Headquartered is one of the highest needs areas for preventive services. 

Program 14

Adopt-A-Friend Conduit Services

Adopt-A-Friend offers Fiscal Conduit  Services for media arts organizations, and community groups. This is an ongoing effort to have a continual voice in media and the community at large. Adopt-A-Friend organization is the Fiscal Conduit for the African American Women In Cinema Film Festival which brings awareness of women of color filmmakers citywide.