Rescuing Black Males, Protecting Black Lives

Vision

Project Lifeline works to transform the minds of black males of all ages living in distress and despair, while encouraging them to embrace the possibility of building a better life by leveraging job opportunities, increasing positive influence, and accessing dependable resources. Project Lifeline develops, designs, and delivers the following:

• Divine solutions for conflict resolution and coping
• Divine strategies to help redirect their primary focus
• Divine systems that link the various social determinants of health to low income communities

Mission

Project Lifeline is a multi-mission initiative that works to partner with potential employers, organizations, programs, and schools to help black males grow out of poverty and to a sustainable level of self-sufficiency equitable opportunities.

Overview

Project Lifeline is a multifaceted Prevention and Intervention, Rescue and Assist Initiative organized in 2015 in conjunction with the child poverty collaborative initiative. PLL  uses a grassroot approach to reaching black males living just above the 200% FPL and may need an extra push to stay on the path to self-sufficiency. 

We are committed to helping black males create a safety net under their feet to prevent them and families from hitting rock bottom due to shifts in their employment status, housing situation, or source of transportation which could also drastically affect their ability to maintain employment or go to school.

Priorities:

• To assist young black males in need of support and connect them to existing programs, youth services organizations, community initiatives and projects serving urban communities and inner-city neighborhoods in the city and county.
• To recruit a cohort of non-traditional providers to help black males recalibrate their momentum for addressing setbacks before having to result to drastic or desperate measures to survive.
• To connect black males to a multidirectional pipeline to which various resources are linked to emergency cash assistance, wraparound funding, flexible services support, suitable social services.
• To assist young black males with enrolling in and graduating from tradition and dropout recovery programs to earn a high school diploma