Our program serves students from elementary and beyond. K-5 students are served through the Genesis Center Campus in our after-school program. Middle-school and high-school students volunteer at our campus, and participate in our business development program. We Also have a special relationship with the local colleges that allows us to participate in the educational process of many college students.We also have a G.E.D. center on our campus in partnership with Lake Sumter Community college to serve the families of our students.
IN our current culture there has been a decaying of the family system. It is much more common in our society today to have broken families, and with these broken families often comes missing role-models. Boys 2 Men seeks to present our male children with a positive role-model, and to have someone present in their lives to fill the gap were it to be present.
It is the goal of Boys 2 Men to raise up a generation who will respect themselves, others, and will be productive in their community and country. We have structured our program around the proverbial saying that if you train up a child in the way he should go: when he is old he will not depart from it.
It is the goal of Boys 2 Men to raise up a generation who will respect themselves, others, and will be productive in their community and country. We have structured our program around the proverbial saying that if you train up a child in the way he should go: when he is old he will not depart from it.
The Importance of Positive Male Role Models
Think about the following:
- Many boys today do not know what it means to be a man because they don’t have a man in their lives.
- Many children will go to bed tonight without saying goodnight to their father because he just isn’t there.
- Nearly one-fourth of America’s children live in mother-only families. Out of the families living in Hamilton county, 39 percent of them are headed by a single mother.
- Of the children living with their mothers, 35 percent never see their father and 24 percent see their fathers less than once a month.
Mentoring changes lives
Even in homes where the father is present research shows that the average father spends less than 10 minutes a day one-on-one with his child. We are living in a society where emotional and spiritual fatherlessness is becoming the norm. Many of today’s fathers did not have positive role models to show them what it means to be a father to a child, so they are not there to show their children what it means to be a father.
No matter how great a mother is, she cannot replace what a father provides to a child. Irrefutable research shows that mothers typically are nurturing, soft, gentle, comforting, protective and emotional. Fathers tend to be challenging, prodding, loud, playful, encourage risk taking, and physical. Children need a balance of protection and reasonable risk taking. If a positive male role model is not present in the life of a child there is a void in this area. Children who live in this environment are more likely to be involved in criminal activity, premarital sexual activity, do poorer in school and participate in unhealthy activities.
