MMA Mentorship

Mission: To provide young boys and girls with a positive outlet for youthful energy and positive mentoring to encourage all children to be upstanding students, family members, and eventually upstanding citizens by teaching them hard work, perseverance, commitment, and discipline.

Objective: To train at risk children/youth or children/youth that have been assigned public service time in the Olympic disciplines of Judo, Boxing, and Mixed Martial Arts in order to give them a positive outlook and outlet for life.

CMMAA, through John Renken, offers a comprehensive mentoring program designed to focus on re-directing attitudes and decisions on the part of the wayward youths. Our experience indicates irrefutably that direction versus intention determines destination. As such, the new destination becomes that of civility or civil treatment of all citizens no matter their gender, race or creed.

Goals: Our goal is to immediately begin training at risk children and youth. Among our objectives is to begin investing in their lives through mentoring and coaching and generally creating a positive path for later life successes. Initially we would like to reach at least 30 children by the beginning of summer of 2010.

Our goal is not to make world champion boxers, rather, the imperative is to teach … to insinuate a sense of self-esteem, to help them to comprehend and accept a value system that includes honor, integrity and discipline, in short, the core values of America.

This new direction will ultimately lead to civil treatment of others and an understanding that being a part of gangs is representative of quitting on life itself. Youths become a part of gangs because the gang itself represents a family along with their own kind of discipline. There is no hope for the future other than jail or an early death.

If we can successfully change the perception on the part of just one of the attendees, then the likelihood of that success will spread to others creating a domino effect that alters the perception from failure to honor equaling a new reality.

Specific focus groups include those youths who represent the naïve-disenfranchised youths who are ripe for joining street gangs. It is our contention that prevention is accomplished through early intervention.

Memberships: There will be no cost associated with this program to Montgomery county but as the success of our program is proven to be effective, the subsequent outcomes would enable us to make this training and mentoring available to all the children in Clarksville through grants and other financial avenues that are made available.

The results of this program will become self-evident and quantifiable within six months as students will demonstrate increased focus and determination, better grades, more respectful attitudes and better physical conditioning and an overall more disciplined approach to life.

Schedule:

CMMAA will observe the following schedule:

• Drop off 2:30pm to 3:30pm
• Homework and Snack 3:30pm to 4:15pm
• Changing of Clothes 4:15pm to 4:30pm
• Classes 4:30pm 5:30pm
• Drop off 5:30pm to 6:30pm

Curriculum:

Depending on the length of time that the child/youth is assigned will determine the amount of time spent doing their choice of Boxing, Judo, or the Mixed Martial Arts Program. Regardless of the time spent doing athletics each person will be taking 6 classes as a part of their time with us. Those classes are in order

1. The Principle of the Path (Principle of the Path by Andy Stanley)
2. Financial Freedom (Financial Peace by Dave Ramsey)
3. Holistic Health
4. Chivalry How treat a lady/ How to act like a lady (Raising a modern day knight)
5. Character Development honor code and integrity (Westpoint/Leading Character)
6. Leadership Development (Be, Know, Do, Serve)
7. Redemption/Apology