Hanging out affects health

Youth who spend more than 2 hours on the streets, without money, resources, supervision & specific activities are more likely to have increase health issues including

 Exacerbation of asthma , allergies as your exposed to increase fumes, smoke

 Eat unhealthy, skip meals and excess intake of junk foods from local stores  & bodegas

 Involved in use of marijuana, alcohol and smoking

 Increase risk of contracting Sexually Transmitted Disease including HIV/AIDS

 Early onset of disease that result excess stress including High Blood pressure

 Becoming a pregnant teen with less appropriate prenatal care

 Have issues with depression or anxiety or not have treatment of it

 Be Victims of violence or Be involved in fighting

 Involved in selling drugs and be Incarcerated

 Victim of police brutality

 Be involved in gangs

 Dropout or fail out of school

 To be sexually assaulted

 not regularly treat conditions they may already have such as sickle cell or asthma


We want our youth off the street and into

The Arts, Sports, Mentoring, Afterschool, Educational programs and job  training
The Promise is our initiative to address this, to get parents, youth and everyone back to community involvement to improve the safety of our children, teens and young adults

The Promise

What’s your promise to stay off the streets and stay healthy