Safe Passage Program

Project Pivot offers counseling, mentoring and learning opportunities through recreational outings, sports, and arts programs. As part of this initiative, the King of Kings Foundation, along with other Cure Violence/Crisis Management Services sites and community-based organizations go into schools to support the students while engaging them in strategies that build up violence-intervention and prevention techniques. A number of NYC schools in need of youth support services and violence interruption and prevention activities use the King of Kings Foundation’s Safe Passage School Program to create safe and orderly environments in areas that commonly put students in distressing and often unsafe situations while traveling to and from school. The Safe Passage Program establishes safe routes around the school community. The King of Kings Foundation Safe Passage work assist in the coordination of violence prevention assemblies or may provide speakers in homerooms to address the various form of violence in the students’ lives such as gangs, bullying, guns, racial tensions, drugs and alcoholism related violence, and more. Safe Passage Program goals and objectives include: (1) Decreasing the chances that of acts of violence against youth traveling to and from school to obtain an education; (2) Reducing the likelihood of youth involvement in gang activities’ (3) Establishing linkages to after-school programs that promote educational activities, organized sports, and cultural awareness between youth and community resources for positive youth programming and community (4) Referrals will be provided to youth involved in any acts of violence to supportive services from appropriate agencies/law enforcement on an individual basis.