The Amer-I-Can Foundation for Social Change is dedicated to building and restoring lives through comprehensive, long-term life management skills and self-value programs.  Amer-I-Can has:

• established community training and mentoring programs
• organized city cleanups
• organized youth activities designed to keep kids off the streets

In 1997, the Amer-I-Can Peace Plan was formed in partnership with the Nissan Motor Company to promote life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness in our communities, for all cultures.  The Peace Plan aims to recruit individuals to work within their communities, and it identifies the creation of safe communities as primary to addressing all other social and economic development.  The goal is to teach local youth to take pride in their communities and to participate in its enrichment by:

• helping the elderly and disadvantaged
• performing neighborhood cleanups
• engaging in sports and local events, as well as other civic responsibilities

With the generous support of the Nissan Motor Company, the Amer-I-Can Peace Plan is helping local community leaders in urban centers nationwide, with the process of peace-making. 

Your personal or corporate donation will ensure that these programs will continue to enrich, educate, and better the lives of these young people in our communities.  Additional corporate sponsorship opportunities exist to bring about peace and social change.

The Speakers' Bureau, also known as I-Can Consultants, consists of graduates of the Amer-I-Can Program life management skills curriculum.  Our seminars are dedicated to building and restoring lives by helping human beings to understand some fundamental concepts about life mangement skills.  We believe that everyone is a product of his/her childhood conditions.  In order to make a positive life change, a person must be given an opportunity to examine past negative conditions.  Once this understanding has been firmly established, a positive change becomes much easier, thus enabling a person to become successful by taking responsibility of his/her own life.

Over the past 10 years, I-Can Consultants have worked in as many as 19 states across America, training thousands of people in schools, juvenile camps, community based organizations, faith-based organizations, and members of the law enforcement community.

The Peace Squad Project seeks to strengthen the grassroot infrastructure of inner-city communities in order to stop crime, murders, and violence.  The need for Peace Squads first became evident in 1992 when Amer-I-Can facilitators initiatied a truce between rival gangs in Watts, California; this historical event resulted in a national and international movement by youth to bring about peace and social change.

It has taken the Amer-I-Can Program 15 years to understand, develop, nurture, and gain the trust of urban gangs, drug addicts and dealers, prostitutes, pimps, thieves, and the innocent men, women, and children who have no alternative lifestyle, and no choice but to live in the dog-eat-dog reality of inner city life in America.

This unique gang violence prevention and intervention service, Peace Squads place nationally-recognized former gang members into high gang impact areas to bring local "shot callers" to the negotiating table.  A unique transformation takes place, whereby the majority of local gang leaders makes a change from a negative, violent lifestyle to a positive, productive one.  The process involves acceptance of a need to change and the participation in the Amer-I-Can Life Management Skills training.  The leaders are then in a position to positively impact youth in their neighborhoods by introducing the Amer-I-Can program, resulting in a dramatic reduction in gang violence and related activities.

Since 1992, Peace Squads have:

• Brought youth together at an early age from rival neighborhood gangs to create friendships through sports and other activities;
• Mentored young adults in the transition from childhood to puberty, which resulted in increased GPAs, and nearly a 50% decrease in behavioral problems;
• Provided Amer-I-Can curriculum training to prisoners and guards within state prisons, thus bridging the gap to understanding and tolerance;
• Served as a "Peace Maker" between grassroot communities, gangs, and even different races of prison inmates as violence and riots occur; and
• Worked with law enforcement agencies and probation officers to assist in providing direction to juvenile offenders.