OUR L.E.A.P. SMART LIFE-LONG MISSION

-LEAVE NO CHILD UNDETECTED-UNPROTECTED-UNCONNECTED-

OUR L.E.A.P. SMART VISION

Make quality "Real-World" Education, Knowledge, Information and Learning universally available and accessible to everyone in a family safe, multi-cultural, language, gender and age sensitive learning environment, through the blending of cutting-edge technology and human interaction in conjunction with Community Based Partnerships.

OUR L.E.A.P. SMART FIVE-GUIDING PRICIPALS

Our L.E.A.P. SMART Five Guiding Principles & Goals

(L.E.A.P. IS AN ACRONYM FOR Learn Earn And Prosper/Play)

1) Continuous Communication: Each day young people are engulfed by hundreds of sophisticated messages that glamorize drugs, unsafe activities and violence, or which undermine their confidence in the future. Where is the positive educational & enriching alternative to these negative messages?

The L.E.A.P. SMART Team™ is committed to creating a new Global presence in all significant media, including, radio, television, theater, popular music, apparel, the World Wide Web, and print. Our goal is to help communities across the globe to communicate a continuous, never-ending flow of positive, hopeful, helpful, Edu-taining and inspiring messages to the Youth of the world!

2) Positive Heroes and Legends: Example is the master teacher. Today, more than ever, young people need and deserve powerful role models---positive heroes and legends---to imitate and emulate.

We are creating a whole new generation of "Positive Action Heroes"---The L.E.A.P . SMART Team, which is comprised of positive high-profile Celebrities from throughout the world---whose experiences, presence, credibility, exploits and adventures will rivet the attention of young people throughout the world! The goal is to dramatize positive approaches and healthy outcomes to everyday problems for our youth in a viable and realistic way that they can accept, understand and embrace. Talented artists and writers will bring our L.E.A.P. SMART Team to life in interactive e-learning modules, comic books, text books, children's television, web-based interactive mediums and other mainstream media. In addition, we will focus our recruiting efforts on sincere, dedicated and committed real-life "legends"---high-profile athletes and celebrities to become the real-life alter-egos for our animated characters. Working together with our schools and communities, these Celebrities are committed to publicly personifying our characters' and their values in personal appearances and major children's, youth & teen events throughout the country.

3) Caring Mentors : L.E.A.P. ™ will carefully match adult volunteers, S.M.E.'s (Subject Matter Experts), global corporate entities and their employees, community groups and organizations, educational institutions and educators with kids in an exciting mentoring program that assists parents to break the cycle of literacy, low self-esteem, behavior that exposes youth to the deadly AIDS virus, school dropouts, substance abuse, and crime.

The global family is changing, and the quality of our children's lives is changing with it: A much higher percentage of children throughout the world live in single-parent or no parent families (especially in many third world or developing countries where the deadly AIDS virus has robbed far to many children of both of their parents) or in extended family environments without their birth parents i.e. Grandparents; unprecedented percentages live in homes where both parents work. Today's working mothers' average much less quality time a day with their children than ever before; for working fathers, the relationship drops to even lower levels. In such a world kids often come home from school to an empty house, or to friends whose influence can be lethal. Five Guiding Principles & Goals continued Instead of "blaming" parents for the problem, The L.E.A.P. S.M.A.R.T. Team™ will help them overcome the day-to-day circumstances that create the problem. Safe places for kids to go like the "L.E.A.P. Café's; structured activities that challenge their minds; and one-to-one relationships with mentors who care---these are the core elements of a program that helps young people help themselves while strengthening the very fabric of the homes and communities in which they live.

4) Self-Esteem Education : We will enlist some of the world's foremost experts in children's self-esteem to develop a dynamic "curriculum for change" for The L.E.A.P. SMART Team's™ mentors and kids.

Feelings of low self-esteem and hopelessness are endemic in our youth, and are at the root cause of problems such as school dropout, joblessness, drug and alcohol abuse, teen pregnancies and gang activities. We have seen what happens, however, when kids learn at an early age to love and respect themselves because a caring mentor came to them and showed them how.

With The L.E.A.P. SMART Team's™ self-esteem "curriculum for change," old attitudes and feelings of "I can't. . .I'm unable. . .I'm afraid. . .I'm nothing. . .I'm angry. . .I won't try" can be transformed into new attitudes and expectations of "I can. . .I'm able. . .I'm worthy. . .I want to. . .I can't wait to. . .and I will." As kids become convinced that their own potential is precious, unique and unlimited, they learn to respect themselves and others. They come out of their shells, make better choices and decisions, stand up to their peers, strive higher, learn faster and become more enthused about life's possibilities.

5) Entrepreneurial Education: Our children live in the most opportunity-rich technologically advanced environment in the history of the world, and yet the rate of unemployment, low medium income wages, lack of proper "Real World & I.T. Based Training" and the sense of hopelessness and the feeling amongst teens and young adults that they can and will have a better life for themselves and their families is rapidly deteriorating on a daily basis.

Even obtaining advanced degrees are no longer a guarantee of a secure well paying job or at least secure employment. L.E.A.P. SMART™ believes that the best way to correct most of this is not to create more low paying jobs, but to dramatically increase the "Real-World" knowledge and information base of our kids in school, teach them "Real-World" English skills and create environments and increased opportunities where they must actually use these skills, make technology, its' tools, applications, proper training and usage more available and accessible to and for them and create more realistic and viable opportunities in the "global economy" through a feeling that they have a true vested interest and that they really matter. Our program of Entrepreneurial Education addresses this challenge at an early age.

 

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