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Young Visionaries Youth Leadership Academy (YVYLA) was established in late 2001 by brothers Terrance and Marqus Stone who began providing Gang Intervention Workshops in 2002. In 2003 YVYLA introduced its Youth Violence Prevention Program and expanded its services to include Leadership Training and has since implemented at least one additional youth development program each year. Being steadfast and zealous in a highly competitive and ever changing industry, Young Visionaries works tirelessly to provide effective services for at-risk youth emphasizing and encouraging the use of the 3 Es, Education, Empowerment and Engagement. Rigid in their focus but flexible in their approach, YVYLA has created partnerships with several public and private agencies to strengthen their programs and develop new ones where they recognize a need; allowing them to systematically usher youth into maturity. It is through this holistic approach to addressing all of the youths individual needs that YVYLA effectively serves the young people of the Inland Empire, the largest and fastest growing region in Southern California, where they are faced with the daily challenge of decreasing the risks of a rising population of disadvantaged, low-income youth by training them in the skills needed to increase their potential to attract and take advantage of educational and economic opportunities. In doing so YVYLA not only creates more productive citizens they build better, safer communities.Our MissionYoung Visionaries Youth Leadership Academy is on a mission to improve the quality of life of at-risk youth through education, as well as leadership and life skills training to enhance personal, social and economic development and enable youth to lead mature, responsible, healthy, independent adult lives.Our VisionWith the aid and instruction of various innovative programs and interactive workshops, each designed to positively impact a portion of the youth's life, Young Visionaries Youth Leadership Academy will effectively provide and develop in our youth the necessary skills to encourage them to meet life's challenges head on. YVYLA will foster self-respect in young people who will then deem it essential to respect others.We will witness each youth as they put into perspective their most challenging issues and give priority to that which enhances their life not that which endangers it. YVYLA will motivate the high-risk teens of San Bernardino County to see their dreams as a reachable goal not a distant idea and implore them to chase them with vigor, all in an effort to inspire a new generation of leaders and thinkers. In essence, "Equipping Youth To Empower The World".Check out the site: www.yvyla.org
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Young Visionaries Youth Leadership Academy is challenging each of you to participate in our $1 Drive For Change and send just a single dollar in support of troubled teens and the programs that assist them. We absolutely welcome larger investments but we ask that you commit to sending $1 a month for a minimum of six (6) months.For just $1 Young Visionaries will add your picture or company logo to our Neighborhood Heroes Wall of Fame with a link to your personal or company website. If everyone who invests a single dollar passes this information to your family, friends and colleagues theres no limit to the good that we can do.All monies collected through the $1 Drive For Change will go towards enhancing and developing YVYLA Youth Programs. Helping the young people in our communities to develop into more productive citizens is our job but it's everyone's responsibility. Heed the call and help the youth. For further information please call (909) 881-3382 or email us at [email protected] Contributions To:Young Visionaries Youth Leadership Academy c/o $1 Drive Coordinator 1616 North D Street San Bernardino, CA 92405

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Young Visionaries At the Nascar Fontana SpeedwayYV chillin with San Bernardino Victory Outreach

Hats $15.00 Beenies $10.00 Shirts $30.00But Helping these kids priceless

.. width="425" height="350" ..Young Visionaries Back Stage With MH On The Set Of The Hit Show CUTS

Young Visionaries Making it happen on Christmas for the community........

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YV chilling at the Community Block Party with Unity One and Amer-I-Can in Los Angeles

Terrance Stone in the stripe black and green shirt on the left

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A Sneak Peek... An Excerpt from Thugs II Men: A Penitentiary StoryMy mother had me but the streets raised me. Pops died when I was like 4. Sometimes I wonder what my life would have been like if my father was around. It’s something about that added discipline, that fatherly fear that makes a young boy want to get some “act right”. Oh well, I guess I’ll never know the answer to that one. I know a lot of cats with no father. In fact, even most of the homies I know who have fathers, their fathers don’t live with them. Being launched into that role of man of the house, that’s instant responsibility. Hell, I was the Big Dog. 14 years old coming and going as I pleased. Running those streets, running that crack and making a name for myself. I didn’t realize then, that while I was doing all of that running, I was also running out of time. You'd think that watching your homies dying around you would be a clue. Funny the kinds of things we get use to. I found myself attending funerals on the regular. Me and the homies who made it, all “G’d” up, more concerned about who’s the most “G’ d” and hoping more people show up for our going away party. I hardly paid any attention at all to the homey’s broken-hearted mother damn near on her knees, crying her eyes out and screaming like she was dying just a few pews away. Damn, how can Thuggin’ make you not care about something as real as that? Then again, I barely care about what happens to me, so caring about the homey’s mom would be extra. I do care about my hood though. I care about my homies, the ones that are still alive, my money, my rep and a bunch of other stuff that I had to sell my soul to the devil for to call my own. But I got love for them and they got love for me. So much love that they don’t want me to leave; ever. In fact, the homies told me the only way I could get out was feet first, blood in blood out. They said if I tried to leave that they’d find me and kill me, out of love. Hell, I may have to rethink this love stuff. These are Those Hidden Under Ground Stories...

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ThenAnd NowMotivational SpeakersTHE BROTHERS STONE:...................................................... .............There is but one thing better than achieving the greatness that one aspires to and that is to inspire others to have aspirations of achieving their own personal greatness. Thus, we receive immense pleasure and great reward from being able to motivate a child to meet his capabilities and attack his future with a certain exuberance. Choose to succeed and winning is eminent for the choices we make dictate the lives we lead”. ... The Brothers StoneWe Make House Calls!!!The Brothers Stone are here to assist you in preparing your youth for the rest of their lives. TBS are Youth Enthusiasts and Life Motivators who by using personal experience, have taken their learned lessons and transformed them into a formula for triumph, a curriculum designed to inspire young people to succeed. We travel over the state to lead ultra informative motivational workshops for special needs teens ranging in age from 12-18 years old in an effort to address the following:Gang Prevention / InterventionDrug and Alcohol AbuseTeen Pregnancy PreventionAnger ManagementGoal SettingImproving Self EsteemLife Skills TrainingTBS will be honored to come into your facility or home and speak to your youth. We are confident that in doing so we will elevate the awareness and conscious- ness of your youth. Thus helping them to better understand their worth as our most valued resource. And because your facility is only as good as those who manage it, upon your request, we can also lead a team building workshop for your trusted staff, working with them to turn your workforce into a force at work.TBS would like to thank you in advance for considering us as assistants to your team in improving the quality of life for your youth. Your interest is very much appreciated and your kids will thank you for it.As our motto states, We Make House Calls!!! So, if you are interested in our very unique and effective service email us at [email protected].

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Sun’s Holiday Fund campaign to support two groups

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Prayers and questions

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’Play Day’ should be fun for family

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Families to come together for special `play day’ event

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Check out this video: Life Goes On

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Joe Baca Foundation raises more than $12K at golf tourney

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All kids get chance for fun on ’Same Team’

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2 officers honored for warning kids about gangs

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Young Visionaries offers youth positive pastimes

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Teens take to airwaves to share views

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