Goals
The Empowerment Center offers a process that facilitates and supports a youth through the transition into adulthood with a positive self-image and a clear view of his or her role in their community and society at large. By providing developmentally challenging, culturally relevant experiences, the Empowerment Project promotes development of a healthy and positive identity grounded in a solid foundation of ethnic pride, self-reliance, and social responsibility.
Specific Objectives
- To develop in youth the skills necessary to refrain from problematic and illegal behaviors.
- To increase knowledge of ethnically relevant culture and traditions regarding family roles, and community responsibility.
- To provide youth with comprehensive and integrated HIV/STD and substance abuse prevention services using a Rites of Passage model.
- To develop goal assessment and goal setting skills.
- To elevate consciousness in youth about the effects of racism, discrimination, sexism, abuse, and violence to facilitate healing.
- To help youth examine and understand their own individual spirituality and purpose in the world.
- To assist youth in developing and enhancing communication.
