JA RULE’S L.I.F.E. CAMP INC. PRESENTS REAL TALK FRIDAYS

What is L.I.F.E. all about? Is it about having someone to inspire you? What if you made the wrong decision in order to find the right path? Is it helping each other out? Is it about getting that second chance? What is L.I.F.E. without anyone to talk to? Don’t you deserve to be helped? Don’t you deserve a second chance at L.I.F.E.?

And that’s what Love Ignites Freedom through Education is all about L.I.F.E!

Ja Rule’s L.I.F.E Camp Inc. (L.I.F.E.) presents Real Talk Friday’s where it will bring in guest speakers from different sectors of the music industry to speak to High School students about the impact that “the industry” has on the community at large as well as today’s youth. Real Talk guest speakers have experience within their respective field coming from areas such as entertainment, athletic, fashion and industrial with hopes of giving the student’s insight on different careers that are available to them, the steps that it takes to get there, and better hopes into a successful future. Real Talk’s guest speakers will leave with an operative feeling that they gave back to the community, and knowing that they could possibly change one, if not all of the students lives leaving them with a bit hope for succeeding the succession!

Real Talk Friday’s teaches students about the steps that you need to take and the lessons inL.I.F.E. It teaches them how to survive the obstacles that we are faced with each day in order to become a success story, and teaches youth how to give back to the community, to those who deserve a second chance at L.I.F.E. which is a basic premise of Ja Rule’s L.I.F.E. Camp Inc. This unique program is designed to meet the complex needs of the underserved youth who suffer from poverty, live in single family homes, and have a history of substance abuse, poor school attendance as well as those who have been involved in criminal activity.

To deter negative behavior that leads to incarceration L.I.F.E. has incorporated within Real Talk Friday’s, the Don’t Graduate to the Penitentiary Program, which brings in former convicts to provide real lessons on the consequences of wrong choices. In this program “at-risk” youth learn new ways to deal with old problems. Speakers provide preventative instructions as well as intervention services for high school students to avoid being arrested and enrolled in the criminal justice system. The workshops are geared towards reducing the high school dropout and youth incarceration rates, while challenging the hardships of peer pressure. The primary goal of Don’t Graduate to the Penitentiary workshop series is to equip high school students with the knowledge, attitude, skills, confidence, and motivation to become responsible and productive students, while avoiding the pitfalls that would lead to incarceration.

Real Talk Friday’s are held every Friday at various high schools presently throughout Queens. We picked the end of the day on Fridays because that is usually a time where kids cut out. It is the latest epidemic going around to all Queens’s high schools with intentions of expanding citywide and then taking it national to other underserved communities throughout the nation. Past speakers have been Londell McMillan-Entertainment Lawyer, Mook Diamond- Promoter, Stephon Marbury- Guard New York Knicks, Zab Judah-Welterweight Champion, DJ Coco Chanelle- radio host of Hot 97, to name a few. Some sponsors are Erving Geoffrey, NYC Councilmen James Sanders, Charles Barron, & Leroy Comrie, The Inc., Haveron Total Health Medical Center, Diamond Entertainment, Poor Freddies Tire Shop, Phat Farm, Quick Lube, Hot 97, Power 105.1, Kiss FM, WBLS, and New York Knick

“Nobody Has All The Answers But Together We Can Solve the Problem”