Helping our Disadvantage Young Adults

Helping our Disadvantage Young Adults:

We think the main problem in the United States today is the jobless rate that is causing us to create a generation of hopelessness among our youth and this is amplified in black communities nationwide and is now a serious issue in Avon Park's Southside Redevelopment Area of Avon Park, Fl and this is what we will address. 

 

While our youth, sees Hollywood and Multimedia as outlets as a means to creates dreams about success and a way out of their state of oppression, what Hollywood depicts is often just an illusion that is often not obtainable by many of them due to the lack of education and connections and this degrades their moral fiber.  Because they grew to want something that they cannot have.  Too often due to joblessness, they stay home all day and play violent video games, listen to rap music often filled with filthy and degrading language and watch fantasy television shows, only to end up turning to the  streets with nothing to do ("an idle mind is the workshop of Satan").  And too often this ends in violence, the loss of young lives which isn't new to the Southside District and the incarceration of too many of our young adults.  And we want to curb this!  We want to curb crime and recidivism.  And because many of us within the National Community Network to include myself have been there and done that, by operating on the other side of the law, who better qualifies to reach out to our disadvantaged young adults, than one with a common past life of crime and/or just being on the streets.

 

They need to see a way out, today many of them would not and could accept an invitation to a better way of life, because it requires education and skills, something many of our disadvantaged young adults fear to take on the endeavor or simply do not understand the incentive in a tangible way.  Many of these young adults are even afraid to take on the simple task of obtaining a GED, to many of them this is not simple at all, but is a very complex measure.  Many of them are simply afraid to fail!  Yet many of them will need higher education beyond a GED in order to survive in the future Highlands County, which is headed for major development. We have a problem called hopelessness in the Southside Redevelopment Area and among the poor in Avon Park today.

 

We believe that the fastest way to create noticeable change in "building a better community," is to put a major focus on the redevelopment of our young adults between the ages of 18-35 and older, because often it is at this age group when most of our young adults engage in self-destructive and/or unproductive behavior that could be modified if they were given other options with meaningful incentives.  Because these are truly the children who will be our leaders of tomorrow.