About Us

objectives and outcomes

P.A.M. Media Outreach's nine-week curriculum-based leadership program develops practicum leadership skills and problem-solving with multiple underserved Inner-City and Urban high school, middle school youth, and now elementary school youth. The methodology of the P.A.M. Media Outreach program for the 2024-2025 school year is to gather 10-15 youth leaders and five elementary youth from multiple underserved inner-city middle and high schools. The P.A.M. Media Outreach Leadership Program will include challenging youth to integrate with youth from different organizations within the school and teach them practicum leadership, team building, and problem-solving skills. These sets of youth will become a team for nine weeks. The result of the nine-week program is to build upon each other as a team and organize and participate in their "Urban Communities Teen Summit," which is 100% student-led.

The P.A.M. Media Outreach Curriculum-Based Leadership Program focuses on the challenged, underserved inner-city middle and high school youth to implement a team environment with peers they usually do not associate with at school. P.A.M. Media Outreach Leadership Program team shares with the youth leaders positive teamwork, respect, accountability, communication, and commitment to supporting the school administrators and their community to get positive feedback on their youth leadership empowerment—the results of their leadership skills transitioning to facilitate and organize an Urban Communities Teen Summit.

The P.A.M. Media Outreach “Urban Communities Teen Summit” empowers our middle and high school youth leaders to organize a youth summit for their immediate community. These youth leaders will address some fundamental issues in their community with key community leaders, i.e., local community law enforcement representatives, business owners, licensed professional mental health counselors, high school educators and administrators, ministers, and their peers.

The summit's outcome will be the “Call to Action” that will help build a process of bringing their community and other sectors together to build relationships and partnerships. We are starting grassroots initiatives to take a new approach to reducing community negativity and empowering our youth in high-crim areas.

These youth leaders will address some of the following subjects through various community leaders:

· Law Enforcement

· Professional Development & Practices

· Mental Health Issues

· Spirituality

· Voting Education

· Youth Relations among peers

· School Administrators, e.g., Principals, Teachers, Counselors

· Personal Development

· Financial Education

We estimate the P.A.M. Media Outreach Urban Communities Teen Summit will have 150-200 students and parents participating. The participants who need community service hours will get them to participate by joining their peers at the Summit. The panelist's audience will be the H.S. students, parents, and faculty. This has worked to get the students to participate with our community leaders and support the youth leaders organizing the events.

Proposed Format

Questions and concerns for the chosen speakers
A Focus Group will start with the students from the Middle Schools and High Schools
Choosing youth facilitators and summit speakers
Youth Leaders to facilitate breakout sessions
Youth Leaders engaging with panelists and audience at the breakout sessions
Youth Leaders will identify the problems
Youth Leaders will be a part of measuring this event for data
Understand what it is like to become a leader in middle school and high school through participation at the Urban Communities Teen Summit
Give them a voice at the Urban Communities Teen Summit

Impact

The summit will allow the Middle and High School Youths to experience and be empowered to do the following:

To develop Practicum Leadership and problem-solving skills
Transformative Learning Experience
Real-life communication and respect
Policy-shaping experiences
Increase in self-esteem
Apply the experience in the community that they are representing
Commitment to come back to their community to give back
To build upon each other as a team
Improvement of Classroom Management

Measurements & Data

Each student is given an option based on permission to take an electronic survey

Measuring the outcome of improvement of their teen summit
Measuring the community initiatives in the youth’s environment
Measurement of youth leadership effectiveness

OUR FOUNDER

PAULA A. MONROE, MBA, Ph.D.(c)

Paula A. Monroe has dedicated her career to the underserved Inner-City and Urban high schools to teach these youth leadership skills. She has developed a program designed to empower our high school youth for nine weeks to engage in a strenuous curriculum and lesson plan tailored to their needs to build their confidence, leadership skills, and self-esteem to become community leaders. After they have completed their nine-week program, they are empowered to organize and participate in their very own P.A.M. Media Outreach Urban Communities Teen Summit designed especially for their school!

Driven by her deep compassion for underserved Inner-City and urban communities, Paula has gone beyond merely teaching skills in these schools. As part of her commitment, she is completing her Doctorate in Leadership Organization and conducting extensive research on the effectiveness of the P.A.M. Media Outreach Leadership Program. Her research explores how the program can make a lasting impact in underserved high schools nationwide.

Paula’s first love is Christ! She and her lifelong partner and husband, Terry, have three beautiful children and four grandchildren, which are the love of their lives!

She is on a mission for God!

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Paula A. Monroe, President & Board of Director

Destini Callis, Board of Director

Gwendolyn Stevens, Board of Director

OFFICERS

Paula A. Monroe, President & CEO

Terry A. Monroe, Vice President

Shauntia Monroe, Operational Manager

Brandon Chaison, High School Community Relations Director

Terrance Monroe, Middle School Community Relations Director

ADVISORY BOARD MEMBER