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Brothers Keepers, Inc.
 
 

The Brothers Keepers Youth Program, Inc., is a 501-(c)(3) non-profit organization of Greater Mercer County.  The founder and is Rev. Melvin Fleming Jr.  The BKYP was established in 1996 and is certified by the State of New Jersey as a charitable organization and was incorporated in March of 1997.  There were over 84 boys in the program and 9 fathers that volunteer their services as youth mentors on Saturdays.  Our main objective is to act as positive role models to boys without fathers and at risk youth who live in high-crime and low-income areas of Mercer County.  In the past three years the BKYP has done outstanding and recognizable work in the community.  Drug and STD counseling, youth mentoring, hosting citywide youth against drugs festivals.  Neighborhood revitalization, take a youth off the street day, find a friend in the hospital tours, parent seminars, educational movies, Christmas toy drives for low-income families, crime prevention seminars, food drives for the less privileged and monthly educational trips for youth in the community.  1999-2001 the Brothers Keepers were awarded along with other non-profit organizations the Gold Hearts Award for being one of Mercer County’s top programs for outstanding youth leadership and services provided for kids in the community.

 

                       

                     ***PLEASE JOIN US AS WE RESTART THIS PROGRAM 2009***

 

 

Health Effects of Smoking Among
Young People

 

Taking it to the schools

 

Brothers Keepers, Inc., kicked-off their anti-tobacco campaign called “No Joke Don’t Smoke” this past spring held at various elementary schools in Trenton. Brothers Keepers received a small grant in the amount of $4,850.00 from REBEL – Reaching Everyone By Exposing Lies – is a grassroots anti-tobacco movement developed by and for New Jersey teens to reduce and prevent the spread of tobacco use. Brothers Keepers goal was to inform Trenton inner city youth about the danger tobacco. Denise Fleming who is one of the Directors of BK spearheaded this project along with Mr. Arthur McCray, went into various Trenton public schools, and talked about the deadly use of tobacco. As she visited each school more than 50 youth from grades kindergartens thu fifth grade attend. An anti-tobacco message and demonstration, shirts, pens, balloons, anti-smoke coloring books and gift bags were given out

 

 

Youth Summit

 March 2, 2002 marked our Regional Youth Summit at Ocean Place in Long Branch, New Jersey. “Go The Extra Mile. The New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services organized the summit. Hundreds of youth throughout New Jersey attend. Fifteen teens from Brothers Keepers also attend. Our teens learned how the tobacco industry targets youth. Our mission was to reach, educate, and empower New Jersey’s youth to make healthy lifestyle decisions and to support non-smoking norms.

 

Customer testimonials

·         Provided youth mentoring for at-risk youth.

·         Aiding Trenton elementary public schools by offering

      tutoring classes for their students.

·         Provided after school program for 10 children

·         Provided summer day for 12 children

·         Distributed 12 Thanksgiving baskets to needy families.

·         Distributed 250 Christmas toys to needy children.

·         Youth Field trips and sporting events.-

·         Tutoring classes in math for children.

·         HIV prevention classes.

·         Health awareness classes.

·         Computer classes for the elderly.

 

Brothers Keepers does not receive government funds for any of it’s social services provided to the Trenton community.  In 2000 individuals, businesses, churches and foundations made cash donations of more than $6,000.00  Additional funding from our after school, summer camp and reading tutoring classes and special grants brought Brothers Keepers total 2001 income over $41,000.00 an increase of  27.9% over last year.

 

 

Graduation NLI Class of 2002

Congratulations to Denise Fleming one of the forty-five Fellows of the Class of 2002 of the Neighborhood Leadership Initiative who graduated on Friday, June 14th before an audience of 300 guest and alumni at the lovely College of New Jersey located in Ewing, NJ.