Teen Empowerment Initiative (TEI)
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We will touch the lives of 200 of the 350 teens at Brookland Manor in the next four years. We want them to know that they have options and that they have the power to choose. We provide training and workshops that show teens how their perceptions of themselves and the world can keep them from achieving their potential. They learn how to create new, empowering perceptions. Through this training, they build self-awareness, examine their values, and acquire enhanced integrity.
Parent Empowerment Initiative (PEI)
We will offer 200 parents and guardians of teens, in our programs, the opportunity to attain the skills to set and achieve their goals. Low income parents are confronted by new challenges resulting from Welfare Reform. Specifically, Welfare Laws require large numbers of mothers, who may have little experience in the employment market and still have parenting responsibilities, to find a job. This in turn creates an increased need for both job training and the skills necessary to get and keep a job. Our goal is to assist them on the path to meaningful, gainful employment, establish powerful relationships in their family and community, and achieve personal success.
Community Empowerment Initiative (CIE)
We are a catalyst for coordinated action in all of the organizations working in and around Brookland Manor. We are always looking for ways to coordinate with other agencies to increase the scope and improve the quality of our programs and activities. (Our programs involve and include the community at many different levels. In 2006, we are targeting a community wide program.) It is our goal to shift the paradigm of inter-generational welfare dependency by the fifth year of this project on this property.