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Many earnest girl in communities via Chicagoland and Northwest Indiana are in harm’s way. They are adult opposite a slew of formidable circumstances: augmenting mercantile inequality, a decrease of a family unit, violence, crime, drugs, and squad activity. Through no error of their own, they are not prepared for a destiny and their chances of apropos prolific and abounding members of multitude are severely diminished. Sadly, this infamous cycle of despondency is perpetuated for generations.

Jeff Isaac has done it his goal to meddle in these immature people’s lives during an early age before they start down a wrong path. Isaac is a CEO of a Pathway to Adventure Council (PTAC), Boy Scouts of America. The Pathway to Adventure Council provides a inaugural girl module for impression growth and values-based care training to over 20,000 immature people, from kindergarten by high propagandize in Chicagoland and Northwest Indiana.

Isaac has an accomplished, certain record for implementing effective and innovative programs that are geared toward disadvantaged girl via his career and he is stability to make it occur in Chicagoland and Northwest Indiana.

Under his leadership, a Pathway to Adventure Council has grown sparkling new programs for at-risk immature people and their families. Isaac has an eager staff and volunteers with an innovative expostulate to lift out a new programs within their communities.

One of a initial programs Isaac has put into place, Restoring a Village, is one he successfully piloted in South Florida. The module “engages village leaders to yield life skills, outside adventure, and certain adult mentoring to girl who are tormented by aroused crime, squad activity, and loath parental involvement.”

  • Restoring a Village opens a eyes of immature people to saying life differently by training them profitable lessons by a Scouting program:
  • How to turn an item and not a guilt to their community;
  • Personal shortcoming and honour for others;
  • The significance of village service;
  • Discipline and leadership;
  • The values of a Scout Oath and Law

For PTAC’s latest initiative, Isaac has partnered with WOZ ED, that was combined by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and is lead by CEO, Karen Young, and Vice President, Billy Gardner, to build STEM programs for inner-city schools. Working with WOZ ED brings sparkling creation to a classroom and powers PTAC’s STEM program. This partnership provides curriculum, equipment, and practice to schools that might differently not have these resources straightforwardly available.

Through hands-on experiential activities, students will learn about:

  • Coding
  • Drones
  • Mobile Development
  • Engineering
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Data Analysis
  • Animation
  • Cybersecurity

One of a program’s biggest partners is a Gary Community School Corporation located in Gary, Indiana. Isaac and his group devise to move a module to some-more schools and communities via Chicagoland and Northwest Indiana.

Because of Isaac’s vision, Scouting in a Pathway to Adventure Council is ever-evolving to offer a needs of earnest girl in unsettled communities. The group looks brazen to a destiny successes of these programs and hopes that one day they will turn a indication for other Boy Scout Councils to exercise via a country.

For some-more information on these programs, greatfully revisit www.pathwaytoadventure.org.

By Jeanette Vietti

Featured and Top Image Courtesy of Jeff Isaac – Used With Permission

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