ABOUT US
WHO WE ARE
D-Light Foundation is an organization that focuses on youth and young adults, ages 12 to 29, who are living in at-risk neighborhoods. Our mission is to spread love, knowledge, and opportunities with individuals who may be faced with internal and societal challenges. We provide mentorship, re-integration support for offenders, mediation services, workshop facilitation and talks. We bring our programs to youth/men's community organizations, schools, basketball teams, group homes, prisons, and other institutions.
HOW WE STARTED
D-Light Foundation was founded by Douglas Bampoe, a father, mentor, and entrepreneur. Douglas is committed to providing individuals with some of the opportunities he missed out on as a young man. As a misguided youth, Douglas ended up on the streets. Bad decisions coupled with being in the wrong company led to his serving six-and-a-half years in prison. Douglas's experiences in prison, the tough lessons he learned after being released, and his subsequent return to prison helped to both change his perspectives on life and mold him into the man that he is today. After coming into contact with renowned mindset coach Bob Proctor, Douglas was motivated to apply some of the principles he had learned in the Mindset Coaching Program, and the trajectory of his life changed. Douglas is now committed to sharing the insights and knowledge he has gained in order to help divert other youth from
going down a similar path.
OUR VISION
Our vision is to impact positive and lasting change in the lives of youth and young adults, globally.
OUR PROGAMS
Research shows that mentor ship programs for youth improve school succes s and academic performance. According to The Mentoring Effect, a 2014 report by the National Mentoring Partner ship in the US.
45%
of at-risk youth with an adult mentor are enrolled in higher education, compared with 29 percent of their unmentored peers.
IN & OUT PROGRAM
Offenders typically face many challenges upon re-entering society. D-Light Foundation aims to provide solutions to many of the internal and societal challenges that they face as they rebuild bonds with family, make connections with members of society, find employment, and forge meaningful relationships.
This program is uniquely designed to help ex-offenders successfully reintegrate in society. Our IN & OUT Program provides meaningful support to ex-offenders so that they can develop confidence, a sense of belonging, direction, and purpose to become positive contributors to society.
32%
The recidivism statistic most commonly reported across jurisdictions worldwide is based on reconviction rates within 2 years of release. Using combined OMS and CPIC data, the two-year post-release reoffending rate for the entire 2011- 2012 cohort was 23.4%; the rate for men was 24.2% and for women was 12%. Rates of recidivi sm for Indigenous offender s were higher, 37.7% for Indigenous men and 19.7% for Indigenous women
MEDIATION SERVICES
We provide teacher-student and parent-teen mediation services to help foster healthy and safe learning environments, both at home and at school. Our aim is to strengthen student-teacher relationships and to help youth develop effective communication and conflict-resolution skills.
80%
of youth because of repeated school absence, school expulsion, cour se failure or grade repetition do not have the benefits of structured mentorship.