Mission

To foster a culture that teaches and supports the principles of good citizenship in our children, schools, and communities at large. To improve the welfare of communities by applying community violence intervention programs offering services that impact the elimination of gun violence and provide non-violent strategies to conflict resolution in the city of Birmingham, Alabama, and neighboring communities. To engage communities, educate youth, and raise awareness of ways to reduce gun violence and heal families. To bring people together across communities to address gun violence and related issues.

To empower communities to address gun violence, responsible gun ownership, conflict resolution and educate our youth to build hope for a better future.

Purpose

The Project HEAL “You Are Better Than That” initiative is a community violence intervention program. It will work alongside other organizations with the goal of teaching conflict resolution without violence and cultivating a culture of non-violence. The primary goal is to raise awareness and enlightening others of the fact that all life matters. This initiative will encourage good citizenship with programs tailored to address the needs of our community in an effort to reduce gun violence.

Vision

The Project HEAL initiative will broaden knowledge of these growing problems by working at the intersections of school gun violence issues to identify common underlying causes and develop strategies and solutions that solve multiple problems while working in partnership with communities and like-minded advocates to magnify and duplicate the project’s impact in conjunction with facilitating a culture in communities for responsible gun ownership and conflict resolution strategies.