New York City

Young Life Strategic Alliances

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59 Development Plan

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New York City

Young Life is committed to discipleship and we know that church involvement is essential for following Christ throughout ones lifetime. Developing a strategic alliance with the local church is important to us. Young Life sta and leaders care for kids, we try to help them become life-long followers of Jesus Christ who will one day be active in the life of a local church. Consciousness: The Initial Meeting With a Church & Young Life to Discuss a Desire to Reach Kids in Their Community. Convening: Other Churches, Civic Leaders and Youth Pastors Gathering Around the Table to present Young Life. Cost: The Type of Commitment it Will Take to Make Young Life Active in the Community: People & Fundraising. Committee: A Local "Board of Directors" to Own the Work along with the Sta Person, i.e. the Oversight. Call: Volunteers from the Community ("So ask the Lord of the harvest to send workers out into his harvest." Mt 9:38) Commitment: Locate a Potential Sta Person From - and Whom - the Community Endorses. Cultivation: The Initial and Ongoing Training of the Volunteer Team and Sta in the "What's & Why's of Young Life". Course: Planning the Launch Date, Club or Event Location. Commencement: The First Club or Campaigner Meeting or Camp Trip (The Blast O!).

What does it mean?

To date Young Life has ministry operating in 9 of the 59 community-districts. We are currently operating at 20% of our goal. It took us 7 years to achieve the rst 20%. Our goal is to operate in 29 community-districts and doubling the number of kids impacted by 2016. New York City has 59 community-districts with a vision to reach every last one.The plan is two-fold: first to place a caring adult sta person within each community-district in NYC who will create/produce a model ministry in a specied neighborhood. A model ministry includes people praying, volunteers doing contact work in its various forms, a committee of adults to help support the work, and a group of kids engaged in club, campaigners, or going to camp. Secondly, the district development approach creates an inroad to additional neighborhoods within that community-district. The District Development Plan facilitates a process of creating metro areas and future regions. This is a way to grow strategically, intelligently, and prayerfully.

New Community Development

To maximize our growth trend, we will develop 20 new community-districts and begin 35 new neighborhood ministries over the next 5 years. We will build the ministry to 12,000 kids impacted, send 2,000 kids to camp, and train 250 volunteers. In order to reach our goal, we will raise $3,000,000 in new revenue over the next 5 years.

Who We Reach

In our work with communities and schools, we recognize a unique teenage prole. Typical students are 14-20 years old and have either dropped out of school at one time, are over-aged, new to the country (recent immigrants within 3 years), or substantially under-performing educationally, socially, and spiritually.Young Life NYC serves kids who are at-risk to hopelessness, chronic unemployment, gang involvement, drug and alcohol use/distribution, and sexual experimentation and promiscuity; We serve kids who are at-risk of becoming adults before they have fully experienced childhood. At this most crucial time in their lives we oer stability, hope, support, and a healthy social resource. "If I had not been involved in Young Life, I wouldn't have a healthy sense of the world. Young Life staff exposed me to things I didn't know were in the world, not just physical places such as camp, but characteristics like unconditional love, patience, gentleness, tough love and what a godly man looks like. Our relationship taught me who God is and how he works. He taught me how a man of God carries himself. - Shakai Drigo

Recruited Leaders in Training for Deployment

Van Cortland Park

JL Escobar Mott Haven, Bronx (BX1)

Methodology

Rachel Ginnaty Washington Heights (M12)

Bronx Zoo

Pelham Bay Park

The method for implementing this strategy will be to forge community partnerships between local schools and churches (and possibly other community stakeholders) that mobilize community assets towards improved educational outcomes. The partnerships will be facilitated and managed by Young Life Sta in tandem with local champions from community partners. The benet to YL will be access and credibility with schools, students, and an unprecedented base of community volunteers, along with the relational equity that earns the right to be heard when presenting the gospel via other YL programs.

Our Approach

Tiany Eberhardt Central Harlem (M10) Young Lives Harlem

David Lee Flushing (Q7)

LGA

Young Life recognizes the practical, spiritual, and emotional needs of youth. We will utilize best-practice models developed in Young Life programs such as YoungLives ministries, Capernaum clubs (special needs kids), gang prevention programs, tutoring programs, and basketball ministries. In addition, we will explore opportunities with youth in immigrant communities to provide English as a Second Language and cultural assimilation assistance. All while providing the signature Young Life programs and camping kids have been transformed by for generations. YLNYC has focused primarily in 6 distinct ministry pockets: RTF (residential treatment facilities), Immigrant ministry focus, Sports focus, Transfer school/Charter school, Young Lives (ministry to Teen Moms), and traditional, community-based Young Life. In order to maintain or exceed our current pace of growth well need to address a critical issue; VOLUNTEERISM. Well increase the number of volunteers by broadening our reach to include additional, non-traditional ways to meet the needs of kids by meeting felt-needs:

Shawanna Bell Central Harlem (M10)

Sarah Olbrantz Upper Westside (M7)

JFK

Lawrence Coles South Jamaica (Q12)

Young Life's presence at New York City middle or high schools adds value to underperforming schools and improves educational outcomes for underperforming students, including: attendance, reading and math prociency, and graduation rates.
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Carolyn Giles East New York (B5)

Contact work that adds value and improves educational outcomes creates a pipeline for YL's evangelistic Club, Camp, and Campaigner programs because it meets felt needs of city schools, earns trust and credibility between YL sta and students, and forges scalable partnerships with local churches and community stakeholders.
2. 3. This kind of Contact work can be implemented programmatically in a variety of ways, including: Academics (e.g., tutoring, test prep, after-school homework help; ESL);

BJ Roper Canarsie-Brooklyn (B18)

The Next Phase of Development:

Brooklyn - District 5: East New York (B5) Brooklyn - District 7: Sunset Park (B7) Brooklyn - District 8: Crown Heights (B8) Brooklyn - District 9: Windgate (B9) Brooklyn - District 10: Bayridge (B10) Brooklyn - District 16: Brownsville (B16) Brooklyn District 18: Canarsie (B18) Manhattan - District 7: Upper Westside (M7) Manhattan - District 8: Upper Eastside (M8) Manhattan - District 9: Central Harlem (M10) Manhattan District 11: East Harlem (M11)

Staten Island District 1: Port Richmond (SI1) Staten Island - District 2: Manor Heights (SI2) Queens District 4: Elmhurst (Q4) Queens District 7: Flushing (Q7) Queens - District 12: South Jamaica (Q12) Bronx - District 1: Motthaven (BX1) Bronx District 5: University Heights (BX5) Bronx - District 6: East Tremont (BX6) Bronx - District 7: Bedford Park (BX7)

Sports, arts, or music (e.g. basketball league, gospel choir, step team); Mentoring (e.g. school-based mentors for fatherless students or teen moms) Job training (e.g. job clubs, entrepreneurship programs)

The specic program strategy for a given school will be shaped with consideration for: (a) the felt needs of the school, (b) the particular skills and gifting of the lead YL sta member on the ground, and (c) the capacities of partner churches in the community.

New York City Board

The NYC Board will have a vision and commitment for the entire metropolitan area. Board members will be personally nancially committed to Young Lifes mission in the New York metro area and have the ability to inuence others toward a similar nancial commitment. This includes lending their names as endorsements and making introductions for fundraising and partnership purposes. It is critical that the demographic of the board match the cultural diversity of the region as a whole.

Reporting Structure and Responsibility

Each metro director, regardless of type, will ultimately report to the regional associate, regional team, and regional director in all matters. Whether Young Lives, YL Latino, Capernaum, Asian YL, or established metro team. The city will function on a unied front under one umbrella, one team. Each borough will be responsible for the total development of its borough, from the establishment a local borough board, recruiting, training, and deploying teams of AD, Sta Associates, Teacher sta, college volunteers, and simultaneously establishing local committees for each of the individual areas contained within the borough. Community investment and ownership are proven through this process.

Reproduction of Leadership

Our Hiring Process

The process of hiring will occur in 4-phases. The initial interview will be with regional associate. The rationale is to ensure that the other 3 phases remain necessary. The regional associate will communicate thoughts and feeling to three groups of people; the current NYC Sta Team, Regional Elders, and nally the NYC board. A longer process will help us make a wise decision through the collective wisdom of the team. Phase 2 is meeting with the NYC Sta Team. The team will have the opportunity to ask thorough but fair questions of the candidate to help us accurately access both potential for success and the potential for failure. Phase 3 is meeting the Regional Elders. The Regional Elders will have a greater sense of the t for this individual. Lastly, the NYC Board will interview the candidate if necessary and upon the recommendation of the total team.

The 59 Development Plan will require leadership from our senior leaders. They are members of the current sta team. Theyve been in the fold long enough to cast vision to newer members of the team. Weve invested in their leadership so they can reproduce themselves in others. The second wave of leadership is the under-resourced youth worker. The under-resourced youth worker has demonstrated a clear track record with kids, taken the initiative to step out and create something that transforms the lives of kids, but does not have the bandwidth to grow the infrastructure of the ministry or organization in a way that provides stability. This leader group has skills and core beliefs similar to Young Life but havent been invited to the team. The one thing that both the senior leader and under-resourced leader have in common are younger leaders they train. Indigenous leadership will help provide direction and sustainability for the future. Teacher sta College Leadership. Last but not least is the volunteer {alumni network, teachers, and college students}. The individual who spends time with kids, connecting sta to resources, and are advocates for Young Life. Each of these ministry targets have names. As we pursue excellent ministry it will require excellent people. We are currently pursuing qualied sta to ll positions within newly established community-districts. These faces represent a pool of senior leaders, under-resourced youth workers, teachers, and indigenous leadership. It will cost a total of $650,000 to put these folks on the ground. The names and faces below represent thepotential impact of an additional 2,000 young people throughout the city.

Volunteers

Volunteers are the back bone of any successful organization. Young Life, Christian Cultural Center, Boys & Girls Clubs, etc. We will actively pursue, train, and position 200 volunteers over the next 5 years. The list below reects our volunteer targets. Were not recruiting by position but by prole. Heres what were looking for in a leader; they need to love Christ, be connected to a body, have a demonstrated track record with kids, be exible with time and opportunities, and enjoys adventure

Ministry leaders

A large, well-trained volunteer base will allow us to multiply the experience and knowledge of our sta for very little cost and is critical for long-term viability. Volunteers will be recruited primarily through local churches that are indigenous to the community, culture, and language of the areas youth. This will included outreach to Christian educators, college student leaders, and other likeminded organizations

East New York (B5): Carolyn Giles Canarsie (B18): BJ Roper Upper Westside (M7): Sarah Olbrantz Central Harlem (M10): Tiany Eberhardt Central Harlem (M10): Shawanna Bell Washington Heights (M12): Rachel Ginnaty Flushing (Q7): David Lee South Jamaica (Q12): Lawrence Coles Mott Haven (BX1): JL Escobar
2012 Flight School Class (reference map on page 2 for placement)

Gift Plan

College students

Our College Life ministry training programs provide fellowship, training, and discipleship for college students while supplying a pipeline of volunteer leaders, student sta, and post graduation full-time sta. We began College Life in the fall of 2010.

Current Budget: 1.1 million dollars Gifts Amounts 1 $300,000 2 $100,000 3 $50,000 Total: 6 Flight School Expansion: $650,000

Total $300,000 $200,000 $150,000 $650,000

Teacher-Sta

Providing teachers a voice in the life of their students. Teachers spend more time with middle and schools folks then parents. YLNYC will annually hold a Teachers In Mission Recruiting Night. We will recruit teachers through churches and Christian administrators in public, private, charter, and transfer schools. YLNYC will reach into the Christian arm of Teach For America.

Investment In Senior Leadership

Committees

Each area will be supported by an adult committee made up of parents, donors, young professionals and other adults. Primary responsibilities for committees will be fundraising, support and encouragement of sta and volunteer leaders, event planning, and prayer.

We believe that key to our growth strategy is having sta who can lead younger sta and give credibility to the ministry in each borough. This means having the resources to: Financially support key sta with growing families in the city with its high cost of living. Provide opportunities for professional growth and education Give leadership positions that t gift sets so that growth can be managed well Provide funding to hire a skilled administrative assistant to support ministry sta Bi-weekly meetings to foster camaraderie and enhance skillfulness Sta will be oered an participate additional training inside and out of Young Life.

Leveraging the Power of Volunteers .....................................................................$400K/13 ministries

Leadership Development Hire 10 Teacher Sta ($100K) Hire 10 Student Sta ($100K) Gather resources to build development committee responsible for fundraising, local event planning and support ($100K) Build YL College ministry ($100K) Develop Young Life College ministry at Fordham University, NYU, Columbia University

Ministry Strategy

We will raise the necessary funding to achieve our goals by launching a city-wide campaign. This campaign will secure and distribute this funding to promote healthy and sustainable infrastructure in every borough. With the funds raised we will:

Grow People, Develop pipeline of leadership

We will invest in the veteran sta required to grow and manage a world-class city. We will create a team of transformational leaders that reect the full diversity of NYC.

Sustaining and Starting Ministries.........................................................................$1.6M/16 ministries

Borough Development Build new ministries in 5 boroughs: Manhattan, Staten Island, Brooklyn, Queens, Bronx districts Hire 2 Borough/Associate Regional Directors ($300K) Focuses on building ministry in the neighborhood they live and serve Hire 4 Metro Directors ($500K) Focuses on new ministry development in the multiple neighborhoods in each district Hire 8 Neighborhood/Area Directors ($800K) Provides leadership to Neighborhood and District Developers Recruits, places, coordinates the resources necessary for growth 2 of the 8 Neighborhood Directors would give leadership in YoungLives and Capernaum

Develop Best In Class Leadership

We will recruit, train, and deploy sta who will reproduce themselves by implementing a volunteer pipeline in their community and key college campuses in the New York area. We will create an endemic style of leadership that is committed to discipleship and getting the right people on the bus (Collins).

Grow New Ministries

We will pioneer In-Culture Ministry (ICM) within the NYC. Our ministry in the city will reect the time-tested principles of Young Life while adapting to each unique cultural group we encounter as necessary.

Take More Kids to Camp

Developing Under-Resourced Opportunities .........................................................$250K/5 ministries

Capernaum ($50K) Life Skills/Mentoring ($50K) YoungLives ($50K) Tutoring ($50K) Sports ministry ($50K)

We will take kids to camp who are unable to aord the cost. We want to ensure that every kid, whether from poor communities, kids with special needs, or teen mothers - can experience a life changing week at a Young Life camp.

Leadership Recruitment Strategy

Campership.......................................................................................................................$1M/2,000 kids
Provide camp scholarships for New York City area urban and multi-cultural communities

The initial recruiting process is an essential step to the growth of the city. Well nd and attract strong, qualied, and strategic thinkers to hold each of the management level positions. Throughout the city there is a large network of youth workers. Some of the gains will result from the strength of current and future partners or partnerships. For example, Young Lifes relationship to 20/20 Vision for Schools, Broader Bridges, World Vision, I Am My School, HFNY, and Roy Wilken Parks Association are a few of our current partners. Since everything is gained or lost through relationship, the quality relationships formed with youth workers throughout the city will assist us and lead us to larger networks of leaders. Second, we will conduct a thorough recruiting process from outside of the city; attracting the gifted, passionate, skillful, and Christ-centered directors. Though the majority of our teams will be homegrown talent, there are a few highly qualied folks from outside the city who have done great work in similar setting, well utilize their expertise and knowledge of the Young Life structure to help build stronger Young Life communities. Well also nd them in our churches and schools. Churches have long been incredible resources for volunteerism and sta placement. There are thousands of folks who are waiting for the opportunity to serve Christ this way. Last but certainly not least well recruit from within New York City Public Schools. Teachers have more time with kids than any other group of adults outside of the home. Many teachers have a similar experience, they want to serve Christ with kids in a more meaningful way. Involving teachers in Young Life is rewarding both to the teacher and Young Life.