30+

lifelong peer mentors

2

vocational trade tracks

501(c)(3)

Cincinnati tax-exempt nonprofit

Real trade alternatives

Instead of passive classroom lectures, we establish structured weekly workshops that build tangible trade competence, work ethic, and peer accountability.

Culinary arts

Shop woodworking

Neighborhood presence

Teens run commercial line stations, master knife skills, and prepare community meals while building high-stress teamwork, precision, and foundational hospitality discipline.

Apprentices learn joinery, blueprint measurement, and power-tool safety under experienced craftsmen, producing durable benches and finished wood goods for local community spaces.

Trusted mentors walk neighborhood corridors weekly, mediating peer conflicts, intercepting retaliatory violence, and offering immediate safe alternatives for teenagers at critical crossroads.

Real tools replace street traps with discipline, trade mastery, and lifelong respect.

Supported by Greater Cincinnati's Boots on the Ground Fund, our coalition meets youth directly in their own neighborhoods with unconditional presence and practical pathways.

Enroll a local teenager, volunteer your trade expertise, or partner with our boots-on-the-ground mentors.