Success and Impact
By investing in our youth, the PEAK Initiative fosters exploration and discovery for young people through experience-based learning. The commitment is long-term, a progressive journey of character development that spans from age 7 to adulthood.
The PEAK Initiative’s approach to leadership development is driven by best practices in social-emotional learning and experiential education with proven results. Our success has led us to expand our offerings beyond summer camp to include after-school and weekend offerings, year-round. To date, we have served thousands of youth through our programs.
Youth Served
Each year, over 500 Milwaukee-area youth are engaged in PEAK Initiative programming. To add more color and context to our participants PEAK journeys, we created the PEAK40, a cohort of 40 youth who’s leadership journeys we are following more closely. Learn more about the PEAK40 here.
Programs Offered
Our programs are offered year-round, in-school, after-school, on the weekends, and of course, during the summer. To learn more about how to get your young leader involved, click the “register” button at the top of the page.
Retention Rate
Over 70% of our participants return for summer programming after participating and engaging in a PEAK experience. As a progressive leadership program, retention is important to us.
PEAK Alumni as Leaders
Nationally Recognized Artist, Khari Turner
“Growing up I was in many programs, the most important being a nonprofit called Lake Valley Camp. This camp changed my life, taking trips in the summer of 2003 as a camper to working there until 2014 as Art Director. Camp is a big part of my long term goals now. I want to start an organization that specializes in giving back efforts to young artist and creating murals in low income environments to promote community health, pride, and clean neighborhoods, while trying to fight gentrification of these areas. Being an artist is so much about giving and I feel it’s so important to give back to the community.”
Learn more about Khari and his art here.
As an organization we are poised to step into our next phase of leadership and expand our sphere of influence. The current strategic priorities capture our staff-identified areas of focus & growth.
View our Strategic Plan HERE!
Check Out Our Impact
At PEAK we aim to live out our Four Beliefs in everything we do. Read about how we showed up for our campers, families, and community last year.