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The Zeal Foundation, Inc.“Educating Youth & Families for Improved Lives”
A Letter From the Executive Director:
Ms. Lauren D. Pitts, Fulbright Scholar, M.S, MFT. B.B.A
“I am a firm believer that we can truly achieve our heart's desire. We have the ability to defeat ourselves and others by how we think, what we say, do, and how we process the information before us. Our choices have lasting effects on our lives and on the lives of those connected to us and around us. How is what you are doing, feeling, thinking, saying today impacting your tomorrow? Do you help or hinder? Do you build up or tear down? Are you a person of integrity or does your word have little or no weight? Do your actions line up accordingly with what you say? Ignorance creates hardship and knowledge is power! Pay attention, listen attentively, be constantly observant and ask a lot of questions. Asking the right questions can open doors of opportunity for you. Dare to dream, be encouraged, and never ever give up.”
The Zeal Foundation’s mission is to create
systemic changes and sustainable
improvements, in the lives of the youth and their
families in Salem, New Jersey. We focus on state, and national impact. In addition, we strive to make contributions in
communities comparable to Salem through our
programs and services.
Mission Statement:
The Zeal Foundation’s strategic and shared vision is to serve as an agent of change
spearheading collaborative efforts to address the
academic, economic, and social challenges required to
revitalize Salem, NJ and similar communities globally, by equipping our youth and
their family members in living more positive, productive, and
prosperous lives.
Vision Statement:
Our Core Values:
Humanities: We are very serious about not allowing issues of age, disability, race, class, gender, sexual orientation, religion, spirituality, or ethnicity to impede our ability to add value to mankind.
Diversity: We are dedicated to engaging in the best practices that promote social justice and an environment that fosters diversity.
Systems Thinking: We emphasize the application of systems thinking in a relational context in the development and delivery of our programs and services.
Reunification:
We embrace the ideology that, “it takes a whole village to raise a child” and thus, creating a stable family unit may often warrant members of the community to step up to the challenge of aiding broken families by guiding them in taking appropriate measures where possible to reunify the nuclear family.
Our Core Values:
Revitalization:
We are committed to working collaboratively with stakeholders at every level to ensure the success of our youth is a shared priority.
Our Core Values:
Self Management Clinic: Provides participants with skills for increasing independence, personal control, and a sense of self-mastery through teaching skills for increasing self-control and self-esteem (such as self-appraisal, goal-setting, self-monitoring, and self-reinforcement).
Zeal Foundation Programs:
Empowerment Clinic: A structured mentoring program for high school aged youth, designed to create a culture where participants proactively support the development of one another. The mentoring will be delivered one on one and in peer teams.
The Listening Forum: Just because adolescents don’t have bills, doesn’t mean they don’t have problems, struggles, and challenges. This program is designed to create a platform for youth to come and express their views, feelings, and struggles without judgment or criticism.
Regeneration Clinic: This program brings together parents and their adolescents within a learning environment. Intensive, integrative components are designed to improve the educational and economic opportunities of the family.
Leadership Academies: A structured adolescent program to help participants become effective, authentic individuals and leaders. The program also assists in the progressive process of choosing education, training, and jobs that fit the participant’s interests and skills.
Prosperity Clinic: Financial skills and planning workshops to empower participants with the key financial skills that will help them learn to save, invest, manage money and develop financial independence.
Zeal Foundation Programs:
Zeal Foundation Programs:
Social Graces Clinic: Workshops and activities to enhance participant’s social competence with a variety of general skills including; training that goes beyond “home training” or “table manners”. The workshop educates through hands on training about the appropriate conduct in any personal or professional setting. This includes table etiquette, business etiquette, verbal and written communication, social graces, appropriate attire, networking, event planning, and cultural etiquette.
Wholeness Clinic: Emphasizes the application of a systems/relational context to the assessment and treatment of individuals, couples, families and/or groups. A developmental perspective is taken to help clients grow and change throughout their lives.We provide counseling/therapeutic services for children and adults in a variety of areas.
Zeal Foundation Programs:
The Lightning Bolt Project
Under the Zeal Foundation’s Community and School Chapter, The Lightning Bolt Project aims to support children’s big ideas by strengthening core academic areas through after school and summer enrichment programs. By providing access to innovative 21st century materials, children will engage in hands-on and interest driven projects that adequately supports STEAM literacy (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Mathematics), promotes computational thinking, critical skills, and the cultivation of creative minds.
Zeal Foundation Programs: Juvenile Justice Alternative
Juvenile Initiative:
The goal of this program is to reduce delinquency, increase offender accountability, and rehabilitate offenders through a comprehensive, community-based system. Juveniles adjudicated delinquent are eligible to be assigned to our program. We assist juveniles in academic interventions that we provide in the form of language arts, mathematics, science, history, and self-discipline.
Zeal Foundation Programs:
Fatherhood Initiative:
The purpose of this program is to help bridge the gap between fathers and their children, particularly for those children residing in single-parent household. This program strives to provide emotional and physical support for fathers, by educating and empowering participants. We encourage emotional, economic, and individual accountability of noncustodial fathers to their children and strengthening their participation in the lives of their children.
Zeal Foundation Programs: Fathers Matter
Ms. Lauren D. Pitts Founder & Executive Director [email protected]
Mr. Jimmie K. Memminger Executive Director Of Community Mental Health [email protected]
Mr. Andre Garlic Executive Director of Corporate & External Affairs [email protected]
Mr. Gerald Mason Director of Corporate Affairs [email protected]
Mrs. Kadie Montano Director of Education Programs
Ms. Asante Benjamin Director of Communications
Mr. Desmond Smith Media Development Manager [email protected]
Leadership Team
Ms. Brianna Pitts Program Content Specialist
Ms. Jacquelyn Thompson Executive Director Of Education
P.O. Box 288, Salem, NJ 08079- Tel: (855) 998-ZEAL(9325)
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