About Us

Mission Statement

OnPoint identifies and assists at-risk youth and provides them with academic, career, and financial counseling to encourage the completion of high school and the pursuit of a successful post-secondary education.

We will uphold the highest social and academic standards to inspire the youth of today to make responsible choices that will empower their communities for years to come.

The Beginning

New Beginning is a "not for profit" organization to be publicly and privately funded through, donations, grants, and fundraisers.

Founded by Anthony L. Franklin, New Beginning was created to inspire and facilitate the undeserved, the high risk, youth offenders to be strong in academic, spiritual, psychological, and physical growth.

One of New Beginning's main goal is to offer comprehensive and professional career counseling to the youth and their parent of all backgrounds, ethnicities and religions. We do this with the realization that an individual's understanding directly affects the decision-making process. Today's youth must be goal driven, and armed only with a plan. They must realize that their Future Begins Now.

New Beginning and Parentpoints have expanded upon it ability to meet its goals and objectives by partnering under the Power of One to address parent involvement. Parent points was founded by Daron Barker who developed the Points Method™ Parenting System devised to promotes consistency and positive beneficial parenting practices which in turn encourage and reinforce responsible child behavior. Parentpoints is a Georgia based business that provides parenting tools, workshops, and seminars designed to promote consistency and positive beneficial parenting practices, which will encourage and reinforce responsible child behavior.

Making A Difference

Annually, OnPoint's goal is to assist 200 at-risk/disadvantaged youth in preparing for post-secondary education. OnPoint focuses on removing the at-risk/disadvantaged label that has been placed on the participants in the program. The most important objective is that these at-risk students receive a post-secondary education. The youth in this program have been well prepared by SAT/ACT preparation, tutoring (on a as needed basis), leadership workshops, exposure to travel outside of their environment, and preparation for the post-secondary experience. Our 200 recipients will no longer carry the at-risk or disadvantaged title. With proper funding the Student Success Initiative will be able to immediately and effectively remove the at-risk label from many more youth.

The Parenting Crisis

“Many parents are frustrated with the effects of working, raising children, planning for a future, dealing with changing technology and a host of other variables that impact the family in today’s society,” says Barker. “Parents have forgotten the basics, or they have simply been convinced they are inadequate and incapable of getting the job done. Hence, the responsibility of training and guiding the child becomes everybody else’s responsibility. That is why schools are suffering. Instead of teaching academics, they have to teach what used to be taught at home.”

With the Parent Success Initiative we will be able to provide workshops, seminars, and tools to assist parents in maximizing the potential that exist at any given time to make a lasting and positive impact upon the quality of theirs and their children's lives thereby strengthening OnPoint's mission to immediately and effectively remove the at-risk label from many more youth.

A Brighter Future

With the OnPoint-OnCampus-OnTime™ program, we will be able to increase awareness to the need of preparing our at-risk/disadvantaged youth for post-secondary education. OnPoint-OnCampus-OnTime™ is collaboration between collegiate greek letter organizations and Parentpoints to positively enhance the education, relationships and lives of parents, children and community leaders.

This proposed collaboration is devised to provide products and services through various graduate and undergraduate chapters of established community service organizations. Currently, this initiative is working with Zeta Phi Beta and Delta Sigma Theta in the state of Arkansas by conducting workshop to positively impact the family unit and reverse the negative trends contributing to the breakdown of the family structure.

We will continue to grow and expand OPSSC programs by partering with groups across the country.