Building Communities, Skills & People
PROJECTS
If you pay attention to your community and think about its people - your neighbors, its easy to identify needs and areas for improvement. We create projects from improvement opportunities that we see around us.
CURRENT PROJECT:
Help People Become Licensed Drivers
Why Is This an Issue?
For many teens and young adults in the Twin Cities, the driver education path is full of barriers that are difficult to overcome:
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Driving Schools are typically located in the suburbs
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3-hour classes are late in the evening,
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Driver's Ed costs upwards of $475
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Driver's Ed is NOT part of high school education
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50 hours of driving practice is required
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Insurance and fully operational vehicle required
Access and expense are significant, especially if you do not have a licensed driver or a car in your family. For a teenager who lives in the city under the poverty level, getting through the state requirements are almost impossible. So they wait until after their eighteenth birthday.
The barriers still exist when they turn 18, but now they are multiplied with the added responsibility of adult expectations when transportation becomes even more essential.
Our Strategy to Help Resolve:
Provide affordable access to driving lessons so people learn the
rules of the road and how to become conscientious drivers with an environmental focus. Help people with driving restrictions identify the steps necessary to become valid again.
Realizing that there are significant roadblocks is an important first step, then proceeding to help remove those barriers will not only improve lives of individuals and families, but will also make communities safer.
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Matters That Matter
Our main objective is to assist people in our collective communities on their journeys to independence and adulthood, as well as to our elders. It is often assumed that teens have learned certain skills, but when generational poverty and trauma are prevalent, a lot of information is overlooked. For many young people, its not they they cannot do something or aren't able, it's usually that they have not been exposed to the subject matter or simply have never been taught. An our seniors, like our planet, always deserve assistance and care.
