Our non profit corporation, with God’s help, has put together a plan to to build a center to benefit the teens in our community. We would like to introduce the TEEN LIFE CENTER, nicknamed TLC, a project with our youth as its direct recipients. Our mission is to provide the teens in our community with a secure, positive, environment, which provides opportunities for success. A safe place to come to that is free from the alcohol, drugs and violence that may surround them.  Our teens in our community need "Something better to do".

Social time of our high school and middle school youth is a critical component in and need for a how our youth develop a sense of identity, explore relationships with each other and develop their social behavior. Young people will actively seek out opportunities for social activity and places to get together with their peers. When there are not enough activities of interest or attractive environments for socializing, negative behavior often times results. When left on their own or just with their peers, these kids have a significantly greater chance of becoming involved in high-risk behaviors than those kids involved in activities under responsible adult guidance. Risk-taking and sensation seeking are normal, healthy inclinations for youth of this age.

Our goal is not to suppress these desires, but to re-channel them to more desirable, socially acceptable outlets. To be successful we must offer programs, activities, and services that actively compete for the time and attention of our high school and middle school youth. Boredom, peer and parental pressure, and lack of attractive and enriching choices of leisure time activities have plagued the teenage population for generations.

We will facilitate activities including after school programs, computer center, mentors, job training, skilled trades and other instructional programs, utilizing both trained facilitators as well as volunteers from a variety related agencies and organizations including our own county programs and services available.

Further, we will provide specified group learning in cooperation with the principles of 12 step recovery programs, to aid the community and its stakeholders in properly addressing at-risk teens, their core-issues and rehabilitation under the trained eye of our experienced instructors. The communities’ participation in the restoration of its youth will benefit not only the young individuals but the locale in which they reside.

Our Community thirsts for a center which will meet the needs of its teenagers. With drug use escalating, including one of the highest, methamphetamine, crime-related incidents in California, we look forward to aiding our younger generation in creating substance free, creative fun with the encouragement of local volunteers and family participation.

Foley Foundation is non-discriminatory; we have no ethnic or religious qualifications for membership.

We believe in our community, its families and especially, its youth. In conjunction with any excellent program is its supporters; the value of working as a team, utilizing the people, agencies and energy of its location. Foley Foundation looks forward to significantly aiding our youth, and further, their futures of emotional, spiritual, educational and physical excellence.

We look forward to making the Teen Life Center (TLC) a successful model for other communities. In hopes to create a better future for our teens, we are asking for your help in funding this project. With your donations we can succeed in helping our teens become a part of our community. We want to build that model of success. Let us be the first to succeed!

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