Baltimore Brothers’ focus is on providing activities for youth to increase male involvement in the community, decrease food insecurity for enrolled youth and their families, and break down historical barriers for African American boys and young men of color. They provide alternatives to engaging in delinquent felonious activities to ensure youth have resources and the support needed to avoid additional threats posed within the institution of the Justice Reform Bill.

Family League staff supported authentic collaboration and resource sharing between partners. These two Funded Partners met during a Site Leadership Meeting and cultivated true partnership to assist with recruitment efforts of African American male youth looking to obtain academic gains. Scholarship awards ranged from $5,000 – $10,000 with a grand total of over $32,000 in awards being given to young men to be successful in their pursuit of higher education.

The Family Recovery Program has utilized their funding to host weekly healthy cooking classes for residents. All materials and ingredients are provided to the participants free of charge, and they are able to take the healthy meals they create home to their families. This program also includes grocery store “field trips” to teach participants how to plan and shop for healthy, affordable meals.

KEYS Empowers, started programming this April and has already hosted one Culinary Therapy cohort with a second starting this June. Their intergenerational cooking classes seek to address food insecurity and nutrition insecurity while also working to close generational gaps. They are also supporting workforce development of youth aged 16 to 24 years who are responsible for grocery deliveries.

Y of Central Maryland, who supports four of the six Family League funded High School OST programs, hosted a week long Freedom Ride Tour for high school students enrolled in their out-of-school-time programs. The tour included visiting four states.

EYP Partner, Northbay, responded to the widening learning gap exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. NorthBay Education launched NorthBay Accelerated. This intensive tutoring program provides accelerated learning opportunities to 6th and 7th grade students, focused on intensive targeted tutoring in literacy development, social emotional learning (SEL), and hands-on residential learning extensions supporting school curricular learning outcomes.