About Jaivon

Jaivon Martin, the CEO of Almighty Force Family Inc., is also a coach, mentor, artist, community partner, and youth organizer.

Community

A native of Queens, New York, he was born on November 30th, 1982. He attended PS155Q, MS226Q, and August Martin HS, before graduating from John Adam HS in January 2001. Jaivon subsequently went on to becoming employed by South Ozone Park Beacon at MS226Q in 1996 (SYEP). Going on to work for the New York City Police Department school safety division in June of 2005, in a fortuitous fashion, Jaivon was assigned to every school he’d attended in his adolescence. In June of 2008 he then began a career with The New York City Department of Corrections as a correction officer. Word of Jaivon’s influence and passion for youth & community development soon spread, earning him the opportunity to work more closely with the adolescent population at The Robert N. Davoren Center onRiker’s Island. He was given the opportunity to host basketball leagues, rap & poetry slam contests, and therapeutic group sessions for the incarcerated adolescent population. He’d also later be assigned to the Institute for inner-development Program (IID), the main school security, the Adolescent Response Team (A.R.T), the recruitment unit, the education & youth advocacy unit, and the fire safety unit, before landing his current assignment in the construction management unit. 

Legacy

Jaivon Martin started coaching at the young age of 13. He was given his start in the legendary Almighty Force (AMF) tournament, the same organization he now presides over. Almighty Force is a basketball organization created by Jaivon’s father and uncle in June of 1991 with the explicit goal of giving the youth of the south ozone park community something positive to do. Almighty force served children, adolescents, and adults daily by hosting a series of basketball leagues, tournaments, clinics, and practices. Outside of basketball, AMF coordinated and hosted major community events involving health awareness, back to school drives, coat drives, feed the community initiatives, etc. Growing up being a part of The Almighty Force organization, Jaivon always envisioned it becoming bigger than just a Basketball program. Despite building a nationally competitive AAU basketball program, and being notable amongst the most respectable organizations New York City basketball. Jaivon wanted to offer young people more than just a sport. Impassioned to mold young people into leaders, Jaivon utilized his community experience to create a youth development & mentoring program for kids/teens ages 8 – 17. His program teaches life lessons and encourages skill building through art, music and sports and workshops. Through this more wholistic approach, Jaivon aspires to keep children off the streets, and to gain and keep their attention through positive outlets. In May or 2020, Jaivon added to his program a monthly series of contest on social media for kids/teens. This addition has provided another opportunity to teach youth life lessons, build a sense of community support, & to show them how to use the social media platform to campaign and bring awareness to their talents. 

Music 

Aside from his career with NYDOC and Almighty Force Family Inc., Jaivon is also currently involved in the music industry as a writer & an executive producer for rap & R&B artists. In his younger years he recorded music and showcased his talents on many platforms. Although overtime his interests have shifted toward coaching and inspiring young people, from time to time for recreational purposes Jaivon can still write & recite a few bars. You can visit his music page at imsohoodent.com