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<br />6701 Highway 10 NW <br />Ramsey, MN 55303 <br />Phone: 763.421.8530 <br />Fax: 763.421.8960 <br />www.youth1st.net <br /> <br />YOUTH FIRST <br />COMMUNITY <br />OF PROMISE <br /> <br /> <br />ANDOVER' ANOKA' RAMSEY <br /> <br />January 10, 2008 <br /> <br />Dear City of Ramsey, <br /> <br />Youth First Community of Promise is a local community initiative established out of a <br />working group of the Northwest Anoka County Community Consortium. This <br />collaborative entity in dudes the cities of Andover, Anoka, Ramsey, Anoka County and <br />Anoka-Hennepin School District #11. The mission of Youth First Community of Promise <br />is to mobilize individuals and collaboratives to support experiences that ensure a healthy <br />start, safe places, caring adults, marketable skills and service opportunities for young <br />people in the greater communities of Andover, Anoka and Ramsey. <br /> <br />Youth First is currently providing programs at the new Ramsey Neighborhood Center. <br />Listed below are our current programs. Attached is a budget. <br /> <br />After school program in Ramsey began in September. The program is offered 4 days <br />per week from 3:00-5:00. We will offer homework help and enriching activities that <br />expose kids to experiences t1at they might not otherwise have. We proVide nutritious <br />snack, consistent caring adults, a safe place, academic help/enrichment and work to <br />develop a sense of community in the City of Ramsey and the Ramsey Neighborhood <br />Center; We have begun encouraging Ramsey youth to take an active role in their <br />'community and invite the community of Ramsey to take an equally active role in its <br />youth. We will accomplish this through use of volunteers, mentors, and collaborative <br />relationships with business, government, faith communities, academic institutions, civic <br />groups and Ramsey residents. <br /> <br />We are continuing to work with Community Education to establish the <br />Ramsey Neighborhood Center as a bus drop off site. This will open up <br />our programs to all youth in Ramsey by providing them with transportation <br />to our programs. We are also working with PACT Charter school parents <br />to increase their awareness of our programs and will continue to build a <br />relationship between PACT and Youth First. <br /> <br />CARING <br />SAFE ptDlJLTS <br />a "ealtlll C E S <br />~TABL Btan <br />sellfici SlQLLS <br />OIlDOltllRilies <br /> <br />We would also like to incorporate family activities into our school year <br />program. We would like to offer family activities quarterly; these activities <br /> <br />Active Partners with: <br />· Anoka County. City Governments of Andover, Anoka & Ramsey. School District #11. Business. <br />· Faith Based Communities. Civic & community groups. <br /> <br />Youth First Community of Promise operates ~der the direction and administration ofthe Northwest Anoka County Community Consortium - 6 5- <br />