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Boys 2 Gentlemen programming has been running in partnership with the LAUSD school system for the last nine years and is a LAUSD-certified bench provider intervention program focused on addressing the needs of boys and girls, aged seven to seventeen, who possess the lowest percentage of math and english/language arts comprehension while simultaneously possessing the highest percentage of behavioral infraction.
To date, the organization has implemented programming over 50 elementary, middle, and high school campuses and affected positive change for over 16,000 students and parents. With inner-city gang influence at an all-time high, school-aged intervention is paramount.
Boys 2 Gentlemen program interventions have become even more crucial to the success of inner city youth since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and America’s continued struggle for racial equality.
The 2024-2025 school year will be of pivotal importance. Inner-city youth have already fallen behind academically due to pandemic-related closures, not to mention the technological inequities that were at-play.
In August 2015, Boys 2 Gentlemen launched their first program in partnership with one school, Florence Joyner Elementary, in Los Angeles, CA. Since then, their partnership portfolio has grown to over 50 schools.
Mindset & Mentorship, continuing this Fall 2024, is a Boys 2 Gentlemen-sponsored interdisciplinary empowerment program focused on students, aged 7 to 17, primarily living in the South LA and Watts areas of Los Angeles. Monday-Friday safety, behavioral, and educational interventions follow the academic calendar of the LAUSD school system and are operated in partnership with local elementary, middle, and high schools.
Boys 2 Gentlemen has experienced a steady increase in youth participant enrollment and parent involvement over the last nine years, with current Mindset & Mentorship programming having affected positive, healthy change to over 16,000 students and parents. 2024 will see additional Mindset & Mentorship program growth, as Boys 2 Gentlemen prepares to be listed on five separate LAUSD-preferred Bench Provider vendor lists, up from three just last year.
Youth participating in Boys 2 Gentlemen programming have exceeded school system expectations by achieving and taking pride in a 70% overall increase in their understanding of new math concepts, a 65% overall increase in their reading, writing, and comprehension, and an overall 97% attendance and 98% inclusion rate. It is the mission of Boys 2 Gentlemen to continue building upon their youths’ academic performance, pride in school spirit, and increased community citizenship and inclusion while simultaneously continuing to lower behavioral referrals, truancy, and rates of violence on and off campus.
Launched in partnership with Lovelia P. Flournoy Elementary school staff in January of 2024 and exclusively benefited 5th graders, levels Tier 2 and Tier 3.
Is your school interested in a PBIS-focused program on their campus? Any elementary, middle, or high schools can apply. Please send us a note and we’ll contact you with more information.
Join with us in our efforts to empower young people to seek, do, and be all the things they once thought were impossible.
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