Night outreach mentors for young adults in parks
Proposes a mentoring group working nights and early mornings to reach young adults in parks in summer and connect them to city programs, resources and jobs.
English title and summary written with AI from the resident's text.
The resident's idea, as submitted
The idea
Develop a mentoring group that works at night/early morning to be deployed to reach out to young adults during the summer months that they are hanging out in neighborhood parks disturbing the peace.
Who it helps and why
The young adults can be recruited to join a variety of city programs, given resources, encouraged to find less destructive activities and employment, they can educated about positive engaging activities that are available.
Details
- Cycle
- 2024–25
- Submitted
- August 7, 2024
- Neighborhood
- City-wide
- Portal category
- Community
- How it was submitted
- Individual submission
- Submission language
- English
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