PRIDE Renamed Amplify
December 15, 2008 by admin
On November 2, 2008, PRIDE of St. Tammany became Amplify Resources. For 25 years, the organization has been working to reduce substance use among youth and their families in the community and develop leadership skills in young people.
Because of the success of these efforts, our organization has been asked to train other communities in how to duplicate some of our programs elsewhere.
Our organization began as the Northlake Substance Abuse Task Force. In the mid 80′s, we partnered with a national organization, PRIDE Inc., and used many of their parenting and youth programs. As we have grown and developed our own programming, the board of directors felt it was important for us to expand and train others under a name unique to our organization.
After several brainstorming meetings, a young person who had been very active in our programs had the idea for “Amplify.”
After researching other groups around the country and getting opinions from youth and adults, it was decided that we would become Amplify Youth and Community Resources.
