The organization was birthed from our Founder (Courtnie Coble McIntosh), who knows the importance of having a supported, passionate, empathic, consistent adult in a young adult life, while transitioning through high school. With her years of experience in the human service field and her personal life experiences, she was able to realized that systematically services were not set up for everyone to have access to and in many ways, continue to separate us as a community. She desired to create a group of youth leaders that could one day create a better inclusive informed community generationally.
The Academy of Goal Achievers is a youth leadership mentoring program, that came from the mentality:
“All youth and families deserve assess to a resource that’s created to develop youth leaders who learns the importance of giving back to their communities and receive guidance and direction on their individualized post-secondary goals. “
The Academy of Goal Achievers is a youth leadership mentoring program, that was brith from the mentality, all youth and families deserve assess to a resource that’s created to develop youth leaders who learns the importance of giving back to their communities and receive guidance and direction on their individualized post-secondary goals. The organization was founded on July 6, 2013 and the first day of programming accord October 17, 2015.
The Academy of Goal Achievers started with a class of 15 students, which included 2 Senior Youth Leaders from Mallard Creek High School (Sasha Mcknight and Shemiyah McKnight). Once we established our peer leaders, recruitment of the first class begun. Facebook was our main form of advertisement. From that we were able to establish our first group of students at Elon Recreation Center, where the program was located for 5 months, before moving to Hygge coworking location.
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