Welcome to The Leadership Program

Leadership is a dynamic urban organization that enriches lives, emboldens confidence and expands options by building strong leaders in classrooms and communities.

Leadership:

Is in over 250 schools in all 5 boroughs

Works with over 18,000 students, 500 teachers and 6,000 parents annually

Has over 20 years of experience working with urban youth and their families

Has accumulated over 20 years of evaluation data proving our effectiveness

Helps procure State, Federal and private funding to provide NYC schools with quality programming and services

Created an empirically-validated Violence Prevention Project, 1 of 35 urban violence reducing prevention programs in the country awarded the designation of “Promising” by the Office of Juvenile Justice & Delinquency Prevention Model Programs Guide

Was included in the Johns Hopkins research study as 1 of 5 organizations in the US that significantly enhances positive school culture

Is regularly invited to facilitate workshops across the nation on topics such as youth engagement and staff development

Was 1 of 6 organizations awarded a federal Character Education Grant

Created 2 of the 7 programs in NY state (2 of 73 in the Nation) designated to have Promising Practices by the Academy for Educational Development, AED

Is currently under review by the Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration’s National Registry of Promising Practices & Programs, a list of programs whose research and dissemination materials meets the highest rigor in the field

Believes that with the right help every child has the innate ability to reach their highest potential

At The Leadership Program, we believe that cultivating students’ and administrators’ sense of empowerment and connectedness is the key to creating positive change in schools. We do this through a wide variety of services that are tailored to each school and that appeal to youth, teachers, and parents in inner-city elementary, middle and high schools. We have worked for over 15 years with researchers, administrators, teachers and students to create a variety of high quality curricula that have been shown to change student attitudes towards violence, gang involvement and substance abuse.