Titan Financial Legacy's vision is to create sustainable financial literacy education programming and curriculum for grades 6 - 12 and young adults ages 18 - 24 for the empowerment of culturally diverse, rural and urban communities.
2. History of
Project Ricochet
• May 28th, 2009: A group of concerned
citizens met to discuss the fatal shooting of
Rodriquez D. Burell of Southeast Raleigh,
NC.
• IN ATTENDANCE:
• Wake County Gang Prevention
Partnership
• Menace 2 Mentor
• Cambone Foundation
• The MLK Resource Center
• The Raleigh Wake Citizens Association
• Hispanic Community
3. Vision
Project Ricochet, Inc. is a community-based approach to finding
practical solutions that assist minority youth who are prone to anti-
social behaviors while discovering positive and productive life-style
alternatives.
4. Mission
• Our mission is to establish and maintain an ongoing and effective coalition of
parents, grandparents, youth service providers, civic and community leaders and
faith-based leaders to incorporate a “bottom-up” approach to gang intervention
and other issues related to the reduction of minority youth into the criminal
justice system.
• To design and maintain a “boots on the ground” brigade of community youth
development practitioners to have a continuous presence in communities, to
engage, assist, and mentor youth engaged in anti-social or criminal behaviors.
• To offer concrete ways in which affected youth can be redirected to access
economic opportunity through youth-driven entrepreneurial projects and job
placement through innovative apprenticeships and placement in area businesses,
and to offer other financial rewards for young people who demonstrate a
determination to change their lifestyles.
• To work and communicate in genuine ways with existing organizations and groups
which have a similar focus and to collaborate with government agencies to seek
more resources in support of our work.
5. Target Population
Target Population: Youth/Young Adults Between the Ages of 14-24
Services: Trauma Support Services, Career Empowerment, Youth Programming,
and Mentoring Opportunities
Focus: To offer community-based approaches to finding practical solutions that
assist minority youth prone to anti-social behavior.
*Reference Guide: Roth, J. L., & Brooks-Gunn, J. (2003). Youth development programs: Risk, prevention
and policy. Journal of Adolescent Health, 32(3), 170-182.
6. Titan Financial Legacy Initiative
• To accomplish the mission of the organization, we have
developed Titan Financial Legacy Initiative.
• The program offers concrete ways in which affected youth can be
redirected to access economic opportunity through financial
literacy education and then youth-driven entrepreneurial
projects and job placement through innovative apprenticeships
and placement in area businesses, and to offer other financial
rewards for young people who demonstrate a determination to
change their lifestyles.
7. Titan
Financial
Legacy
Initiative:
Objective
Project Ricochet, Inc. conducts
seminars offering household financial
management skills, business financial
planning, small business management,
and investment; in conjunction with
existing organizations that provide
financial education and development
services.
8. Aspects of Titan Financial Legacy
Financial Literacy Programming
The Purge -
Students Will
Journal Financial
Experiences
Learn Budgeting
The Weekly
Investment
Challenge
Current Events
Demonstration
Activities, Guest
Speakers, Board
Games
Hands On
Learning
Regional
Associations and
Visuals That
Students Are
Relational
Space for
Instructor/School
Personalization:
Guest Speakers
9. Titan Financial Legacy
Initiative: Registration
• Youth clients fill out a participant
form to assess their personality,
skills, and interests.
• Participants are grouped with
other participants based on age
category (14-17) and (18-24) and
mentors with similar interests.
10. Value: I want to improve my life.
Experiential Benefit: Titan Financial
Legacy will provide me with the
support and training I need.
Functional Benefit #2: As a youth
member of society, I can apply skills
obtained from the program.
Functional Benefit #1: The program will
provide an opportunity to gain a
financial management mindset that
will sustain my life.
Choice Factor / Attribute: The
program is innovative and responsive
to youth/young adults (14-24) and
societal needs.
Titan Financial Legacy Initiative: Youth/Young Adult
Value Proposition
11. Diversity Statement: Project Ricochet, Inc. welcomes all individuals. Our
intent is to present materials and programs that are respectful of diversity:
gender, sexuality, disability, age, socioeconomic status, ethnicity, race, and
culture. ~ In Humanity and Unity
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12. QUESTIONS AND DISCUSSION?
Bilal El-Amin, CEO/Executive Director, 859-457-7581
Dr. Abeni El-Amin, Board President, 919-827-3118
For More information, contact: abeni.elamin@gmail.com