What is Youth-on-the-Move, Inc. (YOMI)?
Founder, Patricia Adelekan, Ph.D., DTM x 2, CTA
Dr. Patricia Adelekan is a seasoned professional international teacher, teacher trainer, educator, consultant, writer, speaker, researcher, founder, and business woman.
She founded Youth-on-the-Move, Inc. a (501(c)(3) nonprofit charitable education program in 1986— out of a need then. Dr. Adelekan earned her doctorate degree (Ph.D.) in Educational Evaluation and Research at the prestigious University of Ibadan at the International Center for Educational Evaluation and Research in Ibadan Nigeria, –where emphasis is placed on the study, history, purpose and research of numerous and various global educational systems, curriculum development and testing. She has broad and extensive experience around the world in all of these fields: practitioner, teacher trainer, researcher and test developer and —especially in the fields of French and English language development.
Children in our society confront many challenges in the process of growing up. Gang violence, bullying, drugs, homelessness, mental illness, and other social issues prevent many youth from achieving their full potential. Youth-on-the-Move, Inc. (YOMI) aims:
- to assist youth in developing a positive self-esteem; and self-confidence;
- to develop youth communication, leadership and employment skills
- to identify the artistic talents in youth
to collaborate with other organizations to help us reach our goals
• to build bonds among the generations
• to foster respect and value of cultural diversity
Wisdom of the Ages
By Patricia Adelekan, Ph.D., DTM x 2, CTA, January 2013, Anaheim, CA ;
and revised, July 28, 2018 for the 25th Anniversary (Silver Jubilee) of the International Educators’ Hall of Fame – to Preserve Legacies, Honor Excellence and to Unite Generations. I hereby share some of the principles which guide my life and hopefully might guide yours, too.
- Know and Share Thyself (a poem written by her)
- Enter to Learn; go out to serve. (her motto)
- Patience and perseverance are two vital keys to success.
- Forgiveness works patience and love.
- Love is patience.
- Love conquers all (by Versie G. Burns, one of Dr. Pat’s mentors)
- Challenge yourself to the number of acts of kindness you can do in a day.
- The fruit of the spirit lead to peace and happiness.
- The International Magna Carter: The Universal Declaration Human Rights are to lift man to a greater standard – Raise the level of human dignity. Rededicate our moral integrity.
- A mantra to adopt and recite daily is the “fruit of the spirit.”
- Strike out with love and conviction at all injustice and violence.
- What do you wish for all mankind?
- Idle spectators are guilty contributors to anarchy, uneasiness, problems, violence (Dr. Pat marched with Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
- To live with dignity: one must practice faith, work, love, justice, fairness, gentleness, kindness, nonviolence, compassion.
- Fundamental unity on all things depends on universal responsibility of our humanity coupled with positive and decisive action.
- Say to yourself constantly, “I shall pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. By Etienne de Grelle
17. “There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.” By Epictetus