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The Good Life Youth Foundation

In notoriously poor Syracuse, New York, home to the highest concentration of poverty among African Americans and Latinos, the streets can be a means of survival for teens. These streets frequently pave a path to incarceration and with no stability or structure at home, recidivism tends to follow. It’s a challenge few are willing or even have the resources to take on. The struggle is real. But, so is a movement to make the change; to remix unpleasant statistics no one wants to talk about. The Good Life Youth Foundation is making noise using hip-hop culture as its stage to reach these at-risk youth. Good Life gives identity and purpose using hip-hop culture. The foundation works alongside like-minded agencies to deliver life coaching with a focus on the value of education, financial literacy and entrepreneurial enterprise. Good Life supports its own promotional print shop, lawn care service and vending machine business for hands-on experience. It also hosts social outings, workshops and school presentations to encourage the next generation and provide a path out of poverty like Founder and CEO Hasan Stephens experienced growing up. “Poverty drove what I do with Good Life,” Hasan says. “Because part of the impetus for me creating Good Life was so no other black or brown kid had to experience what I experienced or had to continue living in conditions like I did.” Good Life is getting real results. For example, Onondaga County was dealing with rampant youth recidivism, particularly in three of Syracuse’s poorest zip codes. By 2019, that rate had dropped by around 30 percent with an equally significant reduction in African American and Latino offenders. “Until we have a 100 percent of kids not going to prison, 100 percent of kids doing well in school, 100 percent of kids not in poverty, I can’t feel any gratification,” Hasan says. “That’s why we’re in the work we do and that’s why we do what we do.” SUBSCRIBE FOR MORE GOOD LIFE VIDEOS (and click the bell!)    / @goodlifefoundation9258   FOLLOW US Facebook –   / goodlifefoundationinc   Twitter –   / agoodlifefound   LinkedIn –   / good-life-youth-foundation