Director at Peace In The Hood
Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area
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- Director at Peace In The Hood
- Past
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- Director at Coalition For A Better Life
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- Non-Profit Organization Management
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Khalid Samad’s Summary
We offer a program that teaches a wide variety of subjects and offers life experiences designed to help you know who you are, who’s you are, where you are going and how to get there. You will discover the rich history and cultural legacy that is yours.
The program includes:
• Rites of Passage - Learn your heritage.
• African Drumming - Learn the significance of the drum in our history.
• Job Readiness - Learn how to get AND keep a job.
• Entrepreneurship - Learn how to be your own boss.
• Financial Literacy - Learn how to keep your money.
• Basic Investing - Learn how to make your money work for you.
• Career Exploration - Discover what you want to do with your life.
• Job Shadowing - Spend some time with someone who is doing what you want to do.
• College Exploration - Discover if you want to go to college.
• Tutoring - Get those grades up so you can succeed in life.
• Attend educational field trips, as well as fun outings.
• Attend the Annual Black College Tour
2. Summer Camp:
Our summer camp offers a variety of experiences and is designed to provide structured learning activities, as well as fun and games. Summer camp also provides a chance to interact with youth from other countries and cultures.
The camp includes:
• Physical fitness activities, including self defense
• Fun and games
• Arts and crafts
• Computer training
• Etiquette and social values
• Fun outings
• Rites of Passage
3. Mentoring and other services:
Peace In The Hood also offers mentoring through the Brotherhood and Sisterhood by Any Means Necessary Initiative, at risk behavior education, crisis intervention and mediation services, mediation training, GED preparation, workshops and classes for the community designed to empower the community.
Khalid Samad’s Specialties:
Peace In The Hood has been key in successfully implementing the following programs:
• Rites of Passage – Drug, tobacco, alcohol, violence and pregnancy prevention.
• Counseling by LSW/Anger Management and Conflict Resolution
• Employment Training and Employment Placement
• Basic Investing Skills
• Entrepreneurship
• Homeownership/Financial Literacy
• Cultural Specific and Cross-Cultural Diversity Programs and Workshops
Khalid Samad’s Experience
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Director
Peace In The Hood
(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
Currently holds this position
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Director
Coalition For A Better Life
(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
May 1983 — June 2009 (26 years 2 months)
Peace In The Hood is a faith-based, non-profit organization dedicated to Peace, Justice and Empowerment. Peace In The Hood has a history of serving diverse Youth groups. Since its inception, the organization has addressed a myriad of problems facing at risk and high-risk youth and young adults.
To address community problems from a holistic perspective, Peace In The Hood was founded as a subsidiary of Coalition For A Better Life in 1983. It offers Mentoring, Youth Violence Prevention, Intervention, Homeownership/Financial Literacy and Educational Programs that promote personal responsibility, empowerment and self-sufficiency.
Additional Information
Khalid Samad’s Websites:
Khalid Samad’s Interests:
Peace, Justice, and Empowerment
Khalid Samad’s Groups:
National Action Network
National Council for Urban Peace Justice and Empowerment
The Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, Inc.
United Church of Christ National Justice and Witness Ministries
NAACP
Council on American Islamic Relations
New Black Panther Party
Black Cops Against Police Brutality
Nueva Luz Urban Resource Center
We Believe
The Ohio Legislative Black Caucus
100 Black Men of America
Village TV
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Peace In The Hood
Khalid Samad’s Honors:
The Coalition designed and implemented four monumental projects that were nationally acclaimed: Rites of Passage, Mentoring (Project A.D.A.M.), Entrepreneurship (Project Ujima), and Cultural Empowerment (Hip Hop Exchange). These initiatives together formed Cleveland’s first Community Empowerment Project. The late Omar Ali Bey convened the annual Stop the Killings/Safe the Children Summit.Traveled to Los Angeles and Chicago as truce facilitators and participated in the signing of major gang peace treaties which were nationally recognized. Helped to convene the first Urban (Gang) Peace and Justice Summit in Kansas City, Missouri in 1993.In March of 2006, Speaker at the National Covenant of Peace Conference in Trenton, New Jersey that brought together national leadership, faith and community based organizations , former national gang leadership, and leaders in the national urban peace and justice movement.In July of 2006.
Khalid Samad’s Contact Settings
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