We will have personal interaction with the children and youth through different events at 925 Avon Street in Flint. We have already started partnering with local churches, non-profit, and business to give youth in the Flint and Pontiac areas food, school supplies, and clothing to assist with many needs in our area. We have also partner with local and National Gospel Artist to encourage the young people through motivational seminars and concerts.
We are currently using volunteers to give us a presence on Facebooks, Youtube, and Myspace utilizing these tools to encourage and teach youth through short stories and teachings.
We will partner with local colleges to assist children and youth with special needs with reading and writing based on their grade level. We are currently negotiating summer programs for those students in high school to encourage them to further education after graduation at no cost to them.
Once we are established as a youth advancement ministry in Flint and Pontiac. With real solutions to advance youth, we will continue to partner with churches in our community to hold various activities in each region of the city.
Example: Football Camps, Basketball Camps, Social Gatherings, Video Terminates, Concerts, and etc…
Building Strong Character
Developing Strong Character
Develop proper Values (Helping to steer good strong values)
Teaching Practical adult life skills.
A. Balancing of check books
B. Cooking
C. Developing a budget
D. Parenting Program
E. Entrepreneurship Programs
a. Career Trips (Inside first hand look at careers that each youth shows interest with providing possible internships.) Paris, France, Hollywood etc.
FYBY - For Youth By Youth J12 (This program is designed to mentor 12 youth to take leadership in the organization; each youth when successfully completing the leadership program would then mentor 12. This process would continue exponentially)
Ultimately Teaching Youth to be helpful, productive, giving citizens in society. JOMI – Strives to be a HUB to connect youth with many resources
Provide Housing:
1. Regardless if homeless or in foster care: provide necessary housing.
2. Foster Care relief program (Extended Stay foster care for youth)
Programs Overview:
Ages 1-12
Our goal is to prepare children for the transition from adolescent, to youth, through young adults.
Building Strong Character through:
Daycare:
Instilling Strong Character
Jireh Outreach Ministries Int. or JOMI organization was established by Reginald G. Hayes as a 501(c) 3 non-profit in 2008 to provide support and give hope to youth starting in the Flint and Pontiac areas. JOMI hopes to develop a strong program that can be a pattern for future youth groups to model after by 2011. JOMI promotes the strengths and abilities of youth and their families by providing community-based services that enrich and empower them to face life’s challenges with confidence, competence and dignity.
JOMI an organization nationally known for using practical principles to assist youth in reaching their purpose while encouraging them to help other youth.
To become a nationally known pioneer in developing youth while creating an environment for youth to recognize and prefect the gifts and talents they naturally possess. Our focus is on building the emotional, social and physical capacity of each youth.
Teaching by application and demonstration how to build strong families, communities, and cities with revitalization of homes in neighborhoods, new business incubator programs, and networking with other organization both for profit and non-profit to get the best solution for our youth needs.
We will run effective educational, entrepreneurial, and community involvement programs for youth.
We will also organize field trips to introduce our children to other cultures.
Mentor youth through sound relationships so that they may mentor others.
Finally, we will provide scholarships for youth that successfully complete and assist with programs as incentives.
The demographics of the City of Flint are generally that of a blue collar, industrial and segregated community. The total population of the City is slightly less than 124,000 people with a median income of approximately $31,424.00. The greater Genesee County has a population of over 428,790 persons. Within the City of Flint, almost 26.4% of the community lives below the poverty rate and are unmarried females as head of households. Out of the total people living in poverty 37.4% are under the age of 18. As many other urban cities, the crime rate is high, unemployment high and rental occupied housing units high with low city revenues.
The demographics of the City of Pontiac are generally that of a blue collar, industrial and segregated community. The total population of the City is slightly less than 67,000 people with a median income of approximately $31,207.00. The greater Oakland County has a population of over 1.2 Million persons. Within the City of Pontiac, almost 22.1% of the community lives below the poverty rate and are unmarried females as head of households. Out of the total people living in poverty 29.3% are under the age of 18. As many other urban cities, the crime rate is high, unemployment high and rental occupied housing units high with low city revenues.
There are very good people working in our company.
And every worker is, undoubtedly, a remarkable one.
We work with youth!
We pull from an array of talents.
