The Chitimacha AfterCare Program (CACP)

‘According to census data, close to 27% of Native Americans live in poverty. That's significantly more than the rest of the country, which averages close to 15%. Furthermore, ‘there are approximately 459,000 AI/AN students and 180,000 NHOPI students in the K-12 public school system nationally, comprising 1% and 0.4% of all public-school students, respectively. 93% of AI/AN students and 92% of NHOPI students attend public schools.’ Moreover, in New Orleans, ‘approximately 2700 people identify as having an American Indian/Alaska Native background, comprising 0.7% of the city’s population.’ Thus, one may logically deduce that the majority, if not all, Native people who reside in New Orleans are not only an extremely vulnerable group - yet, such withstands that Native Americans in New Orleans are presumably poor, suffering from the ills of poverty whilst being detained by the awful measures of exclusion. 

In examination, ‘New Orleans is on track to have the highest murder rate in the nation. The city ended the year with a rate of 70 homicides per 100,000 residents . . .’ Moreover, Louisiana ranks 46 for Healthcare, 48 for Education, 47 for Economy and 48 for Opportunity in America. Even more alarming, being in the bottom 50% of Louisiana schools, New Orleans public schools have an average math proficiency score of 17% and a reading proficiency score of 30%. Statistically, New Orleans is a place that lacks extremely in education, healthcare and opportunity, needless to mention, international exposure and knowledge. Consequently, CACP grants Native and African descendants opportunities for scholars and families to ensure equity - redefining democracy, whilst fighting and lessening the ills that plague the most vulnerable communities in NOLA. 

So while CACP will welcome all scholars and parents within NOLA, CACP centers Native culture, providing free and extended legal advocacy, academic support, and extra-curricular and existential enrichment/services to students and their families. Extended services include academic enrichment activities, college and career preparation, family therapy, child and adult athletic and sports training, adult education, and adult financial literacy. In the end, ‘‘Students quickly receive the message that they can only be smart when they are not who they are. This, in many ways, is classroom colonialism; and it can only be addressed through a very different approach to teaching and learning.’ In the spirit of Chris Emdin, CACP reimagines learning via an existential lens to guarantee a shift in pathology, and to ensure, ultimately, generational success. Hence, our comprehensive approach seeks to grant the psychological tools needed for students and parents to envision learning in a unique, revolutionary, and just manner. The goal is for academics to meet existential excellence and advance our scholars' and parents’ needs and desires by constructing excellence through a picturesque lens that honors mental and emotional wholeness, whilst creating safe spaces, holistically.

CACP desires to effectively serve over 500 families within NOLA, desiring to connect and serve every Native American family within the community, whilst granting assistance to African descendant families and natives of New Orleans. CACP will provide free and extended legal advocacy, academic support, and extra-curricular and existential enrichment/services to students and their families. Extended services include academic enrichment activities, College and Career Center, family therapy, child and adult athletic and sports training, adult education, and adult financial literacy. Indeed, CACP will positively and generationally change lives. Parents will be advocates of purpose, hosting tools that highlight the beauty of a culturally centered community, embracing the wealth of the Native and African people, whilst centering culturally rooted education, displaying the art of parenting and education. CACP will be the international headquarter of community engagement, the personification of indigenous greatness and the embodiment of comprehensive service thus exemplifying excellence where young scholars, their families and their educators are academically unmatched and existentially astute.

In the end, it’s important for scholars and parents to have wrap-around academic support to ensure ultimate and holistic success. Consequently, CACP serves as an after-school program that centers culture and embraces tradition whilst modernizing Black, Brown, Native, and African excellence. ‘Too often we think the work of fighting oppression is just intellectual. The real work is personal, emotional, spiritual, and communal. It is explicit, with a deep and intense understanding that loving Blackness is an act of political resistance, and therefore it is the fundamental aspect to teaching dark kids.’ Bettina Love’s quote is the reasoning behind the need to engage the entire family whilst embracing our vulnerability, aesthetically, economically and academically. By no means do we seek to offer exclusive services to just our Native and African families. Nevertheless, we understand that to be equitable is to operate knowing that when you cater to and uplift the most vulnerable populations, one has uplifted and granted aid to all populations. 

This is CACP at a glance: 

Schedule for Scholars 

4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. - Academic Support (Monday - Friday) 

5:05 p.m. - 5:35 p.m. - Mental & Emotional Support (Monday, Wednesday, Friday) 

5:05 p.m. - 5:35 p.m. - 1-on-1 Academic Support (Tuesday and Thursday) 

5:35 p.m. - 6:35 p.m. - 

Monday, Tuesday, Thursday - First Tee (Golf) 

Monday, Wednesday, Friday - Swimming 

Monday - Friday - Basketball 

5:40 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. Snack/Dismissal 

Schedules for Adults 

4:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. Fitness Traning - Monday - Friday 

5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. GED (HS Equivalent) - Monday and Wednesday 

5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. Financial Literacy - Tuesday 

5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. ESL - Thursday and Friday 

5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. - Family Therapy (Contingent on Family/Therapist Agreement)

*Legal Aid is available to ALL in need.

‘11 million children live at 50 percent below the federal poverty line. Currently, in New Orleans, there is extreme concern from Native American, African descent, and Latinx parents that the ‘data alarmingly shows an overwhelming difference in numbers of behavioral incidents and level of punishment given to non-white students (more) versus white students (less).  According to recent data from the U.S. Department of Education, students of color are 3.6 times more likely to be suspended from preschool than white students. Put another way, students of color, especially Native American and African descendants, account for roughly 19 percent of all preschoolers, but nearly half of preschoolers who get suspended.’ 

Even more alarming, ‘less than half of children born into household and neighborhood poverty are ready for school at age five compared with 78 percent of their wealthier peers.’ Consequently, for Native Americans and African descendants the realities are worse - criminalized due to their race/culture, gender and parent’s financial constraints - creating a need for revolutionary programming that comprehensively ensures greater gains academically, existentially and communally. 

Thus, considering that ‘minorities and indigenous peoples are often among the most marginalized communities in many societies: they are often excluded from participation in socio‐economic life, rarely have access to political power and frequently encounter obstacles to manifesting their identity. These obstacles are multiplied during forced displacement and the protection risks they experienced are exacerbated.’

Consequently, CACP caters to young men, young women and their parents, serving Pre-K - 12th grades. Similar to Morehouse and Spelman Colleges and in comparison to Harlem Children’s Zone, CACP will serve as an educational hub for vulnerable populations, granting culturally relevant education, and communal and legal resources to ensure ultimate success. Plainly, CACP will cater to Native Americans, people of the African Diaspora and Latinx communities, yet not exclude the majority and privileged populations. CACP will serve as an after-school program that grants a safe space for English Language Learners, asylum-seeking and refugee families coming from predominantly African and Latin populated countries, whilst catering to Native American, African and Latinx American families who battle poverty and struggle to overcome an impoverished mindset. CACP will cater to the young men and young women who host unmatched intellect, all while catering to scholars who struggle to find their voice, be it intellectually, culturally, and/or existentially. In the end, CACP will combine the talents of educators committed to defeating the odds built by the ills associated with subjugation with the talents of parents/guardians who may not have a formal education yet are well-versed in street scholarship and mere survival.

‘The original inhabitants of the land that New Orleans sits on were the Chitimacha, with the Atakapa, Caddo, Choctaw, Houma, Natchez, and Tunica inhabiting other areas throughout what is now Louisiana. Today, the Chitimacha are one of only four federally recognized tribes in Louisiana. They’re also the only Louisiana tribe to live on a section of their original homeland, a reservation near Charenton in St. Mary Parish.’ 

Yet, while the culture is rich, the historicity of the Chitimacha/Native American people is connected to beautiful nightmares, where joy and pain, catastrophe and celebration sit side by side. Nevertheless, in New Orleans, ‘the tradition of the Mardi Gras Indians is one of the least known in the southern United States. Every year in February or early March, over forty ‘tribes’ with names such as Wild Magnolias, Golden Eagles and Washitaw Nation join the New Orleans Carnival to compete in symbolic jousting, outdoing each other with their ritual songs and dances. The exuberance of their outfits is inspired by the ceremonial clothing of the indigenous people of the Plains. This is one way for the city's African-American communities to pay homage to the Native Americans who took in runaway slaves in the bayous of Louisiana.’ 

Consequently, to honor the traditions of celebrating the essence of the African American culture, in amalgamation and honor of paying homage to the Native Americans of New Orleans, it is only logical to create programming that takes the essence of the ‘Mardi Gras Indians’ and the deep history of African and Native American cultures and create a long-lasting system of uplift that caters to the Native American cultures/people, the African American cultures/people and the Latinx cultures/people, without limitation or reservation. 

Hence, in mere disruption that leads to true equity, diversity and inclusion, CACP focuses on equity, while fostering the diversity of Native Americans, African Americans, and Latinx people. CACP serves as an after-school program where scholars unpack the complexities of self while being educated in the most comprehensive manner that centers culture which leads to generational wealth. CACP prepares Native American, African American and Latin American students for the dangers of becoming conscious and daring not to fall stray into the nightmare of the American Dream. Complimentary, CACP educators and parents will work together to ensure unlimited access via the mere dismissal of indoctrination and the slaying of subjugation.

Last year, GDECB hosted a Summer Math and Literacy Academy for educators, parents and students. We only had space for 15 students, 15 parents, and 5 educators. We had over 57 families sign up and over 25 educators apply. All the same, we partnered with various Native American entities, the New Orleans Mayor’s Office and the YMCA to create a pilot After School program to discover the need for a more comprehensive approach to community, education, and democracy reform, whilst exposing our most vulnerable families and educators to international experiences, deeply rooted in the Native American and African Diaspora culture(s). We saw the need as over 75 families participated. Toward this end, we have created an inclusive model with a national and international solution, in the course of granting additional resources to Native American, African American and Latin American families, whilst resolving the socio-emotional, health, and academic problems within NOLA. 

Consequently, CACP  is a comprehensive after-care model, with an interdisciplinary and international focus that seeks to grant solutions to the issues that have caused so much tension, chaos and disruption within the NOLA communities, whilst centering culture and honoring the essence of the Native American, African American and Latin American people, in an effort to service over 500 families. Toward this end, our team is colorful in thought and intense in vision and growth. As the Team Lead, I bring a diverse perspective coupled with diverse experiences. I stand as a lawyer who is the great great grandson of a Native American woman, whilst having roots in West Africa yet being reared in the Southern parts of America. Our co-leader is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, a Native American/Asian lesbian who understands the importance of combining community engagement with education/socio-emotional support. All the same, our outside partners, be it our Founding Principal of GDECB (Black woman from NOLA, mother of a son - first-generation college graduate), the CEO of the Dryades YMCA (Creole, African-American woman from NOLA, mother and wife) or our partnering organizations like the New Orleans City Council and the Mayor’s Office, our team is the essence of organizational equity, whilst being the heartbeat of effective community engagement, whilst redefining democracy and national/international excellence. Thus, our responsibilities will align with our gifts and talents - yet, our work will be the personification of excellence and teamwork. 

So, be not mistaken, the CACP will hire Native American, African American and Latin American people to ensure that culture serves as our foundation that leads to generational wealth for our most vulnerable communities. Indeed, the Executive team, our Advisory Committee (including 2 Native American parents, 1 Latinx mother and father, and 3 native New Orleanians of Creole and African descent), and our future employees will be connected to the community, knowing the needs of New Orleans and understanding the imperativeness of community engagement wrapped in cultural uplift that leads to academic, professional and existential success.

In one of our future student’s parent feedback from our ‘22 Summer Pilot Parent Institute, she stated, ‘I can not wait for the after-school program to start. Ya’ll have changed me and my son’s life this Summer.’ Additionally, out of our parent surveys, 100% stated that they trust CACP with their child(ren) and 100% stated that they will engage in future parent programming and family therapy. CACP seeks to resolve many of the communal, educational and financial issues families face.

Thus, one of our major obstacles is raising 1.5 million dollars by August 2024. To accomplish such a goal, CACP is building relationships with key stakeholders, whilst aiming to raise $59,800 each month for the next 16 months to ensure we meet/exceed our fundraising goal.  Additionally, CACP is located in a very ‘rough’ area. We desire to be in the heart of the most neglected neighborhoods so that we are a resource to the most vulnerable populations. Thus, our goal is to remain connected communally and politically. With the construction of renovating space and bringing on additional resources, our remedies to the challenges at hand are building teams that are collaborative, remaining hands-on and developing vital and mutually beneficial partnerships that lead to CACP serving as an after-school program that personifies institutional excellence, thereby revolutionizing the essence of community engagement. 

Therefore, given my biological mother was 16 and a sex worker, my grandmother adopted me as an infant. Before the age of 16, I spent 24 months in juvenile detention. I was the first in my family to graduate from high school, yet in college, I was shot twice, placed under investigation for two murders that I did not commit, and wrongfully criminalized. Now, as a college and law school graduate, I understand the various complexities needed to excel holistically. 

Consequently, I seek to be amongst other innovators who understand the importance of fighting for our indigenous people. I desire to be nurtured, holistically, while being advised on how to grow and advance CACP. Indeed, I will enhance and contribute to the Solve community via my commitment to service and my unapologetic fight for democracy. Moreover, I will uplift the Solve community via my dedication to ensuring students are not detained via the criminality of their bodies and parents and educators are not left feeling depleted.

As Langston Hughes stated, ‘I too am America.’ Yet, I write in ancestral strength guided by my Native American heritage, wrapped in the blanket of my West African lineage that, as Cornel West offered, became Native African American, ‘starting off in some field, some plantation, in some mind, in some imagination, in some heart.’ My Native African ‘Americaness,’ ‘blew over to the next plantation, and then the next state. It went south to north, got electrified and even sanctified. My Native African American Blackness is the essence of pan-Indianism, jazz, R&B and soul, gospel and rock and roll.’ 

So, my connection to the communities of the Native American, African American and Latin American people within New Orleans is via my personal makeup, whilst centering my mission and vision as a professional. Before developing GDECB and the CACP, I served as an 8th-grade ELA teacher at ReNEW Schaumburg in New Orleans East. Even so, I have spent some time connecting, researching and discovering the essence of the Chitimacha people, whilst discovering and visiting their original homeland, a reservation near Charenton in St. Mary Parish. All the same, as a TeachNOLA alum, 4.0 Schools TINY Alum, a former educator in New Orleans, whilst serving as a lawyer, philanthropist, and one who understands the importance of building key relationships, I center learning from the community, learning from failure and learning from key relationships/fellowships. 

In the end, I am obligated to ensure that CACP is designed to target the community, expanding the notion of education, encompassing the whole child whilst granting opportunity, resources and refuge to parents, students and individuals within the Native American, African American and Latin American communities within NOLA. Indeed, CACP will change lives for the better, generationally. Young men and women will be scholars who are well-read, well-spoken, well-dressed, well-versed and well-traveled. Parents, who are often dehumanized, will be advocates of purpose, hosting tools that highlight the beauty of a community program, displaying the art of parenting and education, whereby parents just aren’t involved in the development of their child but the education space goes outside the building, into our homes - within our community.

‘The issues surrounding Native American education are rooted in a history of upheaval, beginning with the government relocation of Native children from their families and tribal way of life to long-term boarding schools. It was a common practice at the time for this type of school to allow disciplinary punishment, such as physical beatings or starvation, of Native American children for speaking their Native language or practicing their spiritual beliefs. These schools, however, would later be exposed and dismantled for allowing such excessive forms of abuse. The circumstances that Native children faced during this time in history have continued to have deep-rooted ramifications on the way American Indians relate to mainstream education. Many of those who attended boarding schools still suffer from mental health issues, depression, and anxiety.’

Comparatively, for African and Latin Americans in NOLA, education has served as a battleground - a fight to simply understand the essence of ed-justice, to truly reap the benefits of equity and to even have access to a quality education. ‘The longstanding racial and socioeconomic differences in public schools have remained, per recent research concerning the Native, African and Latino experiences in NOLA. In reality, three-quarters of White students attend schools with an A or B letter grade and fewer than 5% of White students attend D or F schools. Consequently, for Native American, African American and Latino students, education has become the new Jim Crow, a place where scholars are stripped from their culture, murdered via the catastrophic art of subjugation and demonized simply due to their ancestral connection. So, what happens to the most vulnerable populations in NOLA? Are scholars being revolutionized via education excellence or simply sickened via the disease of cultural misappropriation that leads to the fatal illness caused by indoctrination?

CACP seeks to answer such queries via diverse responses that exemplify innovation in practice which honors culture, uplifts Native, African and Latin people, and redefines the essence of community engagement, education and generational excellence. All the same, CACP embraces the Native, African and Latin community members by nurturing yet challenging them to modernize the notion of the Talented 10th - encouraging them to reinvent the idea of ‘go for broke.’ CACP takes human creativity beyond imagination. CACP will save lives and young scholars, their families and their instructors will have a place to call home - and ours will be the earth and everything that is in it. CACP will shift the statistics that highlight young Native, African and Latinx students as incapable or behaviorally challenged. CACP will be the international headquarter of community uplift - a place of excellence where young scholars and families are academically, athletically, and culturally unmatched and existentially astute.

By May 2024, CACP desires to effectively serve over 500 Native, African and Latin families within NOLA, including the GDECB families. CACP provides free and extended legal advocacy, academic support, and extra-curricular and existential enrichment/services to students and their families. Consequently, GDECB has officially partnered with the YMCA to serve as the hub for CACP. CACP has partnered with the Public Defender Office and the DA’s office to begin a pilot program of the Legal Clinic, whilst too partnering with Tulane University’s Native American Studies Department. This June/July (2023), CACP will partner with the YMCA to run a second pilot of the program in conjunction with the YMCA, Tulane University’s Native American Studies Department and the Zion Williamson Foundation. 

Following, the Executives of CACP, the Advisory Committee of CACP and Tulane University will review data from this (‘22) Summer Pilot whilst launching the CACP/Legal Clinic in January 2024, desiring to serve at least 560 families in the after-school/care program, along with the Legal Clinic. By June 2024, CACP would have served 560 plus families and will begin to assess data to plan for the Fall ‘24. Within the next five years, CACP would have served, in partnership with the YMCA, Tulane University and the Zion Williamson Foundation, 2,240 Native, African and Latin families, including GDECB students/parents within the community. CACP desires to build an additional community center to reach more families outside the Uptown (NOLA) area - preferably in New Orleans East, whilst assisting with resources for the Native land in St.Mary’s Parish. Additionally, CACP desires to establish a Legal Clinic serving NOLA and surrounding communities, focusing on the legal advocacy of Native, African and Latin people. To ensure ultimate success, the CACP staff will meet with the GDECB/YMCA staff twice a month to ensure the After Care/Summer data points are in alignment with the mission and vision of both programs, whilst elevating options and engaging to ensure CACP is meeting the needs of the Native, African and Latin communities.

The CACP Program stems from the desire to rectify the social, relational and cultural gaps between Native Americans, African Americans and Latinx Americans. Even so, CACP seeks to mitigate the sociological issues that have caused psychological, intellectual and physical trauma to Native, African and Latinx Americans, whilst centering the importance of honoring the vulnerabilities of indigenous people, in an effort to resolve the impediments that detain community engagement, academic achievement, family excellence and generational wealth. Consequently, the goal of CACP is to advance the work of GDECB and the YMCA, while being led by the analytical guidance of Tulane University’s Native American Studies Department to ensure comprehensive programming and resources for our most vulnerable families and communities. 

Hence, our key indicators are formed based on our previous three pilot programs, and our ongoing research assisted via relationships with the Native, African, and Latinx American people in NOLA. This too leads to the assessment of our overall financial and non-financial goals. Hence, one of our main KPIs is examining and growing our net or gross revenue, whilst assessing the gross profit before disbursement. Similarly, CACP critically assesses the profit margin via the core initiatives: Preserving Culture for Native, African and Latinx Americans, enrollment and retention, and overall effective programming for students, parents and educators via assessments, surveys and other pertinent data. In the end, our goal is to see a return by seeing greater progress for Native, African and Latinx Americans within New Orleans. 

Thus, in response, the Executive and Advisory teams of CACP, the administration from GDECB and the YMCA, the key persons from Tulane University, along with Teachers/TAs will measure data monthly, via two lens: academic and social-emotional. Following, the Parent/Community Liaisons will assess parent engagement and data via surveys, attendance, enrollment and retention data points. CACP, GDECB, YMCA, and Tulane University will meet twice a month to ensure the After Care/Summer data points are in alignment with the mission and vision of all programs, whilst elevating options and engaging to ensure CACP is meeting the needs of the Native, African and Latinx American communities. 

All the same, CACP, the Advisory and Parent Committees, the GDECB Board and the YMCA Board will meet once a month to ensure data is an accurate reflection of meeting the community needs and advancing the community. In the end, using cross-sectional analysis, examining point-in-time counts of families who are in need and knowing the essential areas and solutions of such need, maintaining ongoing research that shows the Native, African and Latinx American families progress within NOLA, maintaining the GDECB data to monitor families and their living conditions, whilst seeing the KPIs set by Tulane University will ensure ultimate success and facilitate the difficulty of meeting all organizational goals.

‘My son doesn’t fit in at his school . . . No teacher even looks like him.’ This single mother exclaimed these statements to me during my conversation with the Native American population in New Orleans during an intimate March (‘23) dinner. This assertion proclaimed by this single mother who is rooted in the origins of Native ancestry leads to the statement declared by Dr. Bettina Love. She states, ‘Abolitionist teaching is not just about tearing down and building up but also about the joy necessary to be in solidarity with others, knowing that your struggle for freedom is constant but that there is beauty in the camaraderie of creating a just world.’ This statement highlights the importance of cultural pedagogy. 

In mere examination via the lens of data, in an attempt to further explain the relationship between AfterSchool programming and certain racial/ethnic groups, one must be aware of the following. ‘In 2020, among Native American children who were not enrolled in an afterschool program, 45 percent would have been enrolled if a program were available.’ Additionally, ‘in classrooms across the country, when students hear the bell ring at 3 p.m., it signals the end of the school day and, for many, the start of an afternoon without supervision, without productive activities and without direction.’ 

Afterschool and summer learning programs are filling the invaluable role of providing essential services. . . The need for these afterschool and summer learning programs is especially vital in Native American, African-American and Latino communities, communities that are experiencing higher levels of poverty, homelessness and food insecurity, and are facing disparities in education and access to extracurricular activities.’So, the philosophy is simple: Culture is central to learning. Hence, CACP will provide a learning experience that honors culture and advances mindset, whilst meeting scholars and families where they are, in an effort to popularize excellence via growth, academically and existentially. 

In the end, the reality is that if equity is granted the notion of privilege is lessened and the idea of power may become obsolete. Indeed, diversity typically means different races assimilating to whiteness, popularizing indoctrination and subjugation. So, my livelihood is dictated by inclusion - being bold to stand as an innovator and create opportunities for our most vulnerable populations. My identity is equity; to be black, male, of Native and African blood yet from the hood and once hosting a ‘hood’ mentality to now serving as a Fulbright scholar and trained lawyer, I am diversity; furthermore, due to my diverse background and mindset, I am inclusion.

CACP is an after-school comprehensive program that bridges the gap between Native, African and Latinx American families and the resources needed to ensure ultimate success. Toward this end, CACP desires to connect with other innovative ed tech platforms that center indigenous and vulnerable communities, whilst leveraging the resources provided via our legal clinic, community center and additional support through CACP. 

The problem with education is that we have too many people making assumptions - and not doing enough to grant presumptions - to grant logical deductions that lead to solutions that do not damage the most vulnerable populations. This is injustice - the latter is the essence of equity, diversity and inclusion. 

Without ego, it is illogical and insensitive to seek to revolutionize education given the historicity of the dangers of education in Native, African and Latinx American poor communities and do such via the art of assuming and not simply doing the work and becoming familiar and well-informed. Far too often, it is the assumptions that populate institutional racism, that lead to wrongfully criminalized Native, African and Latinx American bodies, and that cage our most vulnerable families to solitary confinement and poverty. So, I have not made any assumptions. Though I am originally from Dallas, I am very much the community that we shall serve in New Orleans. Before venturing into the art of school design, community building and cultural pedagogy, I took the temperature of the community beforehand, all whilst I made it a duty to only enter into spaces where I am connected and understand the need just not through theory yet via practice, participation and active involvement. 

This is the essence of equity, diversity and inclusion.

CACP is an after-school program administered by GDECB and the Dryades YMCA. The purpose of the program is to provide free and extended academic, extra-curricular, and existential enrichment/services to students and their families. Extended services will include tutoring, homework help, enrichment activities, STEM Lab, College, and Career Center, mental and emotional support, athletic and sports training and exposure, adult education, adult financial literacy, adult fitness training and need-based family assistance/therapy. 

Academic Support Center: 

It’s important for scholars to have wrap-around academic support to ensure ultimate and holistic success. Consequently, tutoring, homework help, the STEM Lab, and the College and Career Center will be available and mandatory for all students to use and explore. 

Mental and Emotional Support Center: 

CACP’s goal is to reimagine learning via an existential lens to guarantee a shift in pathology, and to ensure, ultimately, generational success. Hence, our Mental and Emotional Support Center seeks to grant the psychological tools needed for students to envision learning in a unique, revolutionary and just manner. The goal is for academics to meet existential excellence and advance our scholars' needs and desires by constructing excellence through a picturesque lens that honors mental and emotional wholeness, whilst creating safe spaces, holistically. 

Athletic and Sports Training: 

Contrary to popular opinion, youth sports assist scholars in obtaining the tangible and intangible skills needed that lead to ultimate success. Statistically, high school scholars, especially female scholars, who play sports are less likely to drop out. All the same, the commitment to team sports and the discovery of one’s strength via the art of revealing one’s true sense of athleticism lead to scholars attaining higher GPAs academically. Even so, in the spirit of health consciousness, individuals who were involved in sports tended to be more economically successful than those who were not student-athletes. Toward this end, CACP will offer Basketball, Swimming, and Golf via our partnership with First Tee. 

The Family Engagement Center

CACP understands that to be equitable is to operate knowing that when you cater to and uplift the most vulnerable populations, one has uplifted and granted aid to all populations. So, our After School program will also grant resources to our scholars’ parents/guardians. We will offer GED, ESL, Financial Literacy, Family Therapy and Adult Fitness Training for our parents/guardians.

CACP desires to raise 1.5 million dollars by August 2024. The reality is that CACP must, in order to accomplish this, build relationships and remain innovative in design and execution. CACP desires to raise 543,300 by December 2023. The goal is to raise an additional $956,700 by August 2024. Thus, we aim to raise $59,800 each month for the next 16 months to ensure we meet/exceed our goal of raising 1.5 million dollars by August 2024.  

Indeed, the political truth is that if one is connected to key resources and government entities one will receive the tools needed to ensure ultimate success - not just for a moment but in the creation of ensuring generational excellence. Consequently, CACP is in the crowdfunding stage of raising over 150k within the next three months, whilst applying to 5 grants every month for the next 16 months, at least. Undeniably, CACP constantly takes the temperature of the Native, African and Latinx communities by engaging various political, communal and organizational hubs to ensure that our development, our commitment and our design are in alignment with the needs of the community, whilst ensuring that our vision and mission advances the lives of our most vulnerable people, in an effort to revolutionize the essence of community development and redefining the teaching reality. 

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CACP desires to raise 1.5 million dollars by August 2024. The reality is that CACP must, in order to accomplish this, build relationships and remain innovative in design and execution. CACP desires to raise 543,300 by December 2023. The goal is to raise an additional $956,700 by August 2024. Thus, we aim to raise $59,800 each month for the next 16 months to ensure we meet/exceed our goal of raising 1.5 million dollars by August 2024.  

Indeed, the political truth is that if one is connected to key resources and government entities one will receive the tools needed to ensure ultimate success - not just for a moment but in the creation of ensuring generational excellence. Consequently, CACP is in the crowdfunding stage of raising over 150k within the next three months, whilst applying to 5 grants every month for the next 16 months, at least. Undeniably, CACP constantly takes the temperature of the Native, African and Latinx communities by engaging various political, communal and organizational hubs to ensure that our development, our commitment and our design are in alignment with the needs of the community, whilst ensuring that our vision and mission advances the lives of our most vulnerable people, in an effort to revolutionize the essence of community development and redefining the teaching reality.