Neighborhood Ministries Case Study

• Background Information: Neighborhood Ministries’ mission is to share the love of Jesus Christ with the community by providing a safe, recreational, and spiritual experience. They began as an outreach program called “Sandwich Club” which met every Wednesday after school where students were welcome for sandwiches. Growing into a 5-day program picking up students from neighboring elementary schools who were brought to the church every day for help with homework, snacks and spiritual guidance. Each day entails a specific activity also a weekly chapel service for grades K-5. Now, they are guiding grade students from K-12 every single day. When school is not in session they have the summer program which is 7 days a week and a full-day program with a feeding program (Neighborhood Ministries). I learned from this program how I want to impact young lives and learn how I can help them. Neighborhood is the only time they are allowed to kids, because at home they hold down the house or take care of their siblings while their parents are at work. These students have taught me tolerance and patience; children are like sponges and will mimic or mirror everything they see. I had to change my tone and explain to them what they were doing was wrong or talk …show more content…
Also, it has taught me what programs and systems work to reduce criminal behavior in their minor years. Early detection and monitoring of delinquent behavior, behavior modification will have a higher success rate. Delinquency has many factors such as environment (interactions with parents, teachers, and peers), treatment (how child is viewed to others), involvement (if child is enrolled in programs, sports, music, dance, or other extracurricular activities), media influence (video games, news, and social media), and peer pressure (pressure to be cool or be like everyone else, to create a reputation, or attention