About Us

Our Mission
Our mission is to promote projects that will show our youth their options beyond athletics. We are committed to serving the most vulnerable, yet difficult to reach group in our community, our at-risk youth. Focusing on high-need communities, our programs seek to provide enriching life experiences that encourage and challenge youth to excel in their development intellectually, emotionally, and socially. Though we pursue one mission, we offer a variety of options for challenge and achievement. L.A.W. strives to offer our scholars the opportunity to take ownership of their future, making a difference today and in the future.

Our Vision

To expose our scholars to the arts and give them opportunities to travel outside of their reality and broaden their scope of knowledge and experience.
To help our scholars reach for and attain academic and personal growth goals and objectives.
To establish nutrition and exercise programs that will ensure that our scholars have healthy bodies and minds.
To establish and provide educational opportunities, support, advocacy, and mentoring to our scholars that will help our scholars obtain their secondary and post secondary education.
To provide our scholars with gang, drug, and alcohol prevention programs.
To provide opportunities to our scholars for community involvement.
To provide life skills classes for our scholars that will help them succeed in our society.

Our Objective
As a nonprofit organization, our programs seek to build character and self-esteem in our youth through a variety of programs. Our objective is to encourage youth to set educational and career goals that go beyond the sole vision of being an athlete and to enable L.A.W. scholars to broaden their lifestyles to include a holistic view of their options for healthy living.

Our objective is to encourage our athletic youth to see a life beyond the whistle. To support and promote the total development of area youth and to assist them in being and becoming productive, giving members of society. Working with parents, teachers, community residents and other organization’s to help prepare the children for their post secondary education pursuits.

We are dedicated to youth empowerment and advocacy fostering the development of a positive and healthy self-image.

Our Goal
Our goal is to create an environment that encourages youth to look beyond their aspirations on the sports field and create dreams and goals that lead to a successful future. Our goals are to improve education outcomes for the youth of our area and to develop programs that serve as models for students who have not traditionally had access to high-quality educational settings and role models.