1. In-School and After-School Program
2. Summer Camp
3. Parent Connection
4. Community Outreach
5. Gang Mediation and Intervention
6. Public Education and Community Awareness

In-School and After-School Program
Staff and volunteers provide in-school mentoring to at-risk youth and monitor their behavioral and academic progress. Students participate in a two-hour, four-day per week after-school program that operates within the Academic and Character Education Program. A concentration on reading skills is supplemented with homework assistance, drama, music, creative skills and recreation activities. The program concludes each day with the ‘Focus’ model that develops self-discipline, self-respect and goal setting.

Summer Camp
The summer camp experience maintains out-of-school contact with at-risk youth and helps foster social skills, bonding and trust between students and mentors in peer-to-peer situations.

Parent Connection
The Parent Connection is an obligation that Open Door asks parents/guardians to actively participate and to support the program’s goals through parent education, student-parent activities, discussion and other relevant program activities.

Community Outreach
Home visitation is utilized as a means of community outreach and parental support to vulnerable at-risk youth and their families. Open Door assesses and engages in this program with specific ‘at-risk’ families.

Gang Mediation and Intervention
With over 741 who have died violently and died young since 1988 and countless more violent and social disorder incidents, intervention and counseling services are available from Open Door along with on-call street presence and mediation between rival gangs.

Public Education and Community Awareness
Open Door staff engages in extensive public education and community awareness activities by collaborating with other community based organizations and by giving presentations and seminars with government and civic organizations, corporations, schools and churches.

• To educate and empower at-risk youth so as they will resist gang culture, violence and recruitment.
• To facilitate parents/guardians of at-risk youth affected by gang activity, so as they may develop civic responsibility, community involvement, active parental participation and educational collaboration.
• To intervene and mediate between rival gangs so as to reduce acts of social disorder, violence and death.
• To educate the public and create community awareness so as a collaborative, intelligent and restorative justice response can be achieved.