AAAD
“Guarding our youth...one life at a time”
CALL US: 302-612-0635
Our Mission at Angels at a
Distance, Inc.
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Angels at a Distance is a non stock, non profit corporation whose mantra is, “Guarding our
youth, one life at a time.”
Our goal is to support local at-risk youth in making good choices, related to drug use and
other negative influences that affect their lives, by providing opportunities for them to connect
and engage in positive experiences.
Our mission is to use cultural exploration, enrichment, education, athletics, career
exploration, job readiness and leadership development as vehicles to assist our youth as they
develop the self awareness, confidence, self worth, motivation, realistic expectations and
resilience that they will need to move successfully in their journeys toward adulthood.

Angels at a Distance, Inc. values…
Our Youth are our today and our future. AAAD believes empowering our youth and engaging them in positive experiences leads to productive adults.
Our Community is the springboard and nurturer of our youth. Our community is the major supporter of our endeavors. Our community is who we serve.
Positive Character Development is essential to empowering our youth to become self-sufficient, ethical and productive citizens of our community.
Education is the gateway and vehicle through which we can empower our youth with knowledge, build positive character, gain self-sufficiency, self-efficacy, and resiliency.
Our
Opportunities & Challenges
In a 2016 Queen Anne’s county report titled, Data Roundup for Child and Family Well-Being Results, 27.8% of youth under 18 in female headed household were living in poverty and “access to affordable housing continues to have an impact on Queen Anne’s County families with limited income”. In a 2018 Comprehensive Needs Assessment report on Kent County, prepared for the United Way, 34% of youth under 18 in a single parent household were found to be living in poverty in 2017 and “multigenerational poverty” is a major concern for the county. Between 1990 and 2016, the Caroline County poverty rate rose 44.9% with 35.5% of people in the county living below 200% of the poverty line.
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AAAD will be using several drug education and prevention strategies to address drug use among 8-16 year-old participants in its programming. Positive youth development will be utilized to show the youth they have strengths, they are valuable and they can all make positive contributions to the community.
In 2017, Governor Larry Hogan declared a state of emergency regarding heroin and opioid addiction in Maryland. Most recently in 2019, Governor Hogan stated, “the fight against heroin and opioid overdoses has torn apart communities and families throughout our state and across the nation. Together, we can and we must do more in order to save the lives of thousands of Marylanders.” The heroin and opioid crisis has also affected members of Caroline, Kent and Queen Annes counties. In an October 21, 2019 Washington Post article, columnist Petula Dvorak stated, “Queen Anne’s County on Maryland’s Eastern Shore has one of the nastiest rates of opioid overdoses and deaths in the nation."
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