P.A.C.E.
Parents and Children Excelling
P.A.C.E. involves mentoring children and assisting them in their academic studies. Stop the Madness Staff, Mentors and Volunteers offer tutorial assistance in academic studies, give words of encouragement and teach values necessary to survive in the world today. P.A.C.E. is designed to build positive relationships and to assist youth during their academic journey, which are often turbulent and troubling adolescent years. Stop the Madness facilitates programs in several inner-city schools.
In addition to working with students involved in the P.A.C.E. Program, Stop the Madness understands that the parents of these children play a significant role in the academic and behavioral performance of these students. The program strives to assist parents in being actively involved in the educational welfare of their children, more accountable for their children’s academic performance and assist the parents in developing more effective parenting skills; resulting in the students experiencing more success during and following their educational journey.
Target Group:
Parents & At-Risk Youth
P.A.C.E. involves:
• Lunch talks with adult mentors
• School-based programming
• Open discussions - youth perspectives
• Planning of youth-focused events
• Involvement of parents and guardians
• Sharing of parenting skills
• Summer enrichment program
Summer Youth Enrichment Program
Stop the Madness is not a program. It is about touching lives. This summer we had a summer camp that was versatile to say the least. The young people (ages 12-18) had a chance to learn, explore, produce, sing, create, praise, dance, travel, discuss, debate, plan, grow, tour, play and much more.
Pastor Jordan always reminds us that “you don’t know where you are going if you don’t know where you come from”. On July 31st, Stop the Madness took 40 youth on a three-day “Heritage Tour” to several civil rights and historical sites. The tour routes included Walterboro, South Carolina; Myrtle Beach, South Carolina; and Atlanta, Georgia. The young people, as well as the adults, were able to see things that touched their lives forever.
C.L.A.S.S.
Community Leaders Addressing Social Struggles
 The mission of C.L.A.S.S. is to improve police-community relations and enhance the local community’s ability to address such issues as homicide, domestic violence, youth violence, school-related crime and gangs. The C.L.A.S.S. Program brings together community leaders (clergy) and the Chattanooga Police Department in order to be pro-active in efforts to improve these community/police relations and to promote dialogue to build a community self-defense system that can guide us through conflicts and keep the community from being divided in times of crises.
Target Group:
Ministers and community leaders from a diversity of churches and organizations
What C.L.A.S.S. involves:
• Academy to improve police-community relations
• Inform police command of citizen concerns
• Ministers and leaders are able to cascade information to constituents and congregations
• Shoot, Don’t Shoot Hands-On Exercises
Youth C.L.A.S.S.
Young Community Leaders Addressing Social Struggles
Target Group:
Future leaders from a diversity of churches and organizations
Objectives:
• To empower youth by gaining a better understanding of police work
• To inform police of youth concerns
• To improve police-youth relations
Men of Vision & Women of Excellence Mentoring
Target Group:
Positive Adults & At-Risk Youth
Men of Vision & Women of Excellence Mentoring involves:
Adult mentors, along with parents provide structured guidance, support, counsel, friendship, reinforcement and constructive example to young people.
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