PEACE IS A LIFESTYLE

Our Violence Intervention and Prevention Specialists (VIPS) are frontline workers who canvass our communities daily, mediating conflicts and de-escalating gun violence. They mentor youth participants, preventing them from entering the school-to-prison pipeline. In addition, our VIPS distribute educational and informative materials to community members and partners.

Wellness stands central in our philosophy at LIFE Camp. We provide conventional and conventional therapeutic and wellness services that promote self-care and healing from the mental and emotional impact of trauma. Our Programs include The Peacemobile, Urban Yogis, Rites of Passage, Pain on Beats, “Healing Hearts: Mothers Of The Movement,” Community Garden, Wellness Tonics, Hydrotherapy, among others.

Violence is a public health crisis, and we need to heal our whole community from the ground up. We provide young people and our community a range of Wraparound Services and Educational Opportunities through regular programming at our I LOVE MY LIFE Center and through our Peacemobile. Our programs and special events include I LOVE MY LIFE Days, Financial Literacy Classes, Wealth Building Courses, Peace Week, Census Outreach, Behavioral Management Courses, Youth WorkForce Programs, Emergency Work Programs, Technology Learning Lab, among others.  

Sustainability is the achievement of a social-economic state that allows the safe co-existence of diverse peoples to flourish and perpetuate. Resilience is sustainability’s precursor - a society’s adaptation of the capacity to overcome its foremost social-economic threats, be they social, economic, and/or environmental. A resilient Southeast Queens is one where violence is suppressed, and the lifestyle that causes it is transcended through social and economic development led by an alliance of local stakeholders.