GOALmodel of the Month
GOALmodels: The Top Ten
PAY has put together a GOALmodels “Top Ten” group. The goal of the group, which meets every month and continues to grow, is to help us enhance and expand the GOALmodels program. Here’s a list of the movers and shakers involved in this group with their bio. Read the rest of this entry »
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Chaz Lamar Shepherd
Actor, Chaz Lamar Shepherd (“Set It Off”, “The Temptations”, “7th Heaven”), spoke to the students at Mid Valley Youth Center and the probation school next door in Van Nuys. Chaz spent 5 hours speaking to 3 groups of students about the importance of “purpose” in one’s life. “If you don’t have a purpose for your life, something that you’re about”, Chaz said, “then you’ll be about nothing, and have no reason to turn away from whatever is offered to you (gang life, drugs, crime).
The GOALmodels program has been bringing role models, such as Chaz, to speak to the students at Mid Valley Youth Center and the probation school for the past year. Many of the kids join our youth groups and begin getting involved in positive activities. GOALmodels is much more than a speaking program because we believe that “If you speak to kids they will learn something, but believe in them and they’ll change the world”.
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Master Cameron Shayne
Cameron Shayne was born in Charlotte, North Carolina in 1971. It was there at the age of ten, that he began studying the traditional Korean art of Modokwon under Master Teachers Paul and Dan Harmon. “Paul and Dan forever changed my life. They stood for the integrity, character, honor, skill and power that I had perceived a martial artist to embody.” Read the rest of this entry »
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Ken Schechter
Blind and Alone Over North Korea
Ken shares his story of survival and patriotism with the students at James Monroe High School, and also with the students at Mid Valley Youth Center & CEC in Van Nuys. Here is a summary of Ken’s story taken from the “Chicken Soup for the Veteran’s Soul”
I was blind, stunned, in pain, bleeding profusely and very much alone. At the controls of my Navy Skyraider attack plane over Wongsang-ni, North Korea, I was climbing, inexorably, toward a solid overcast at 10,000 feet—from which there could be no return. Read the rest of this entry »
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