Action Strategies

M.O.M.I.E's TLC implmements a multi-pronged strategy to achieve our outcomes:

Theory: Our 3-Point Strategy Action Strategies

This unique strategy encompasses a wide range of tactics, all designed to achieve improved educational results for inner-city children. The strategies include:

1. Direct Educational Services via high quality in/out of school programs;
2. Parental/Community Engagement via training, advocacy and organizing;
3. Multi-Media or interactive products/services

PRACTICE: OUR STRATEGY IN ACTION

Strategy #1: Direct Educational
Services via high Quality in/out of school programs

M.O.M.I.E's TLC provides high quality educational programs for at-risk children. This strategy allows us to focus our proven educational techniques on a concentrated group of children for a set period of time. We are currently providing a creative and culturally relevant After School and Summer Camp educational program. These programs are designed to improve the academic and social skills of under-served children, ages 5-9, who live in low-income Washington, DC neighborhoods. We focus not only on complementing what the children learn in school through homework help and supplementary activities, but we also focus on nurturing children through a curriculum that teaches positive life skills such as meditation, daily affirmations, conflict resolution and an Afro centric study of great historical leaders such as Gandhi, Bethune and Mandela. The ultimate aim of this education approach is to demonstrate a model first class educational initiative that is strategically positioned to effectuate local and global educational change.

Strategy #2: Parental / Community Engagement via training, advocacy and organizing

This strategy aims to broaden our outreach, in comparison to Strategy #1, by working with a large number of parents and community members. This component allows M.O.M.I.E's TLC staff and volunteers to host a wide range of trainings, support groups, skill development workshops and advocacy campaigns. Ultimately, this approach aims at developing a cadre of committed and informed constituents capable of advocating and organizing campaigns to win improvements in our children's education.

Strategy #3: Multi-Media or interactive products/services

This strategy impacts the largest constituency of children and parents, hundreds if not thousands, with exciting and creative educational products and services. Herein, we are developing a wide variety of interactive products to improve the educational process. Children's books, children's musical recordings, animated projects and other interactive programs are included. For example in 2002, we developed the "Children's Gallery of Black History" which, in its first year, provided more than 250 children from around Washington, DC with life-sized displays and fun hands-on activities designed to teach children about great Black achievers. The Gallery was publicized in the Washington Informer newspaper and featured on the radio by the Pacifica Foundation's 89.3 FM station. The aim of this approach is to develop a host of interactive productions to positively change or "re-image" how at-risk children are perceived and demonstrate effective ways to educate them.

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