Driven Ones University

Youth Mentorship

Purpose

The “Driven Ones University” was established in 2022 by STAY DRIVEN LC LLC. This program was created to support, promote, highlight, and develop our youth. It’s important to create safe spaces for our youth with urban communities to strive and see more for themselves than what’s already projected. We provide youth mentorship, leadership training activities, team building exercises. mental health workshops, social and emotional learning, behavioral, and self care services. We want to ensure the growth of the youth. We want to ensure they blossom and thrive through any circumstances they may be facing in life.

This university is a village and we want to protect their dreams while providing them with the skills and necessary resources they need to flourish in their every day lives. Dreaming out loud, self expression, and becoming the best versions of themselves with genuine support and encouragement makes a difference in one’s life.

What are our goals?

We want to ensure the youth has creative direction, educational development, and social skills to navigate in the real world. Also, for our artist, and athletes, we will help create amazing portfolios for them. It’s important that we can help fund their vision. For example, the photoshoots, video shoots, commercial advertising, highlight reels, documentaries, studio time, and most of all a safe place for these youth to collaborate and build with one another. As community organizers, we want to ensure that the youth feel protected, beloved and actually feel supported. If we can assist taking a load of the parents within our communities, especially the single parent households, then we will. Driven Ones University will give these youth life coaching as well & help to develop them for everyday life situations.

WHAT DO WE OFFER?

Mental health services
Creative direction
Social and emotional learning
Social Media marketing
Self defense classes
Financial literacy
Mindfulness training
Recording studio access
Outlet to producers and various artists
Film study
Artist development
Life mentorship

Community

“We All We Got”

We All We Got is a series of community events to help highlight and provide support for mental health. Ideas and resources are shared amongst a positive group that is happy to provide emotional support that will foster great change.

STAY DRIVEN LC LLC COMMUNITY CLEAN UP & GIVE BACK!

Bedstuy, Brooklyn = Nostrand and Fulton we covered the blocks from Bedford Ave & Fulton Street to Tompkins Ave & Fulton Street!

Bushwick, Brooklyn = Broadway & Myrtle one of the most used intersections in Brooklyn. We cleaned majority of the area under the train tracks on Broadway.

We hosted two major community clean over the summer of 2021. This was absolutely necessary in the heat of the summer. We also had canned foods and good from CHIPS soup kitchen in Park Slope. We also had PPE materials that we received from the US Census Bureau and purchased out of our own pockets. Both events were very successful and brought awareness to our cause.