Community Empowerment Association
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Activate, Educate, & Mobilize!!!
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60 years old
PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania
United States
Last Login: 11/23/2009
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Community Empowerment Association was formally founded by veteran community activist, T. Rashad Byrdsong, in 1994 in an effort to reduce and prevent violence in the Homewood-Brushton area of Pittsburgh. Byrdsong's nationally acclaimed approach to combating violence included the entire spectrum of persons and systems that contribute to it, from the youths firing guns to the manufacturers and distributors of weapons.
CEA was designed to run as a grassroots outreach organization that would be able to meet the needs of the people on demand and on time. The unique combination of a grassroots structure and breadth of vision has given CEA amazing clarity and endurance. Today, CEA offers community clean up, after-school programs, human services, re-entry and job training, truancy, behavioral health, and many other needed programs and initiatives.
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Community Empowerment Association is founded on the basic belief that families develop best in a community with a sense of order, positive social interaction, and opportunities supported by positive adults.
It is our aim and commitment to work with individuals and families to build, foster and empower the African-American community through jobs, education, housing, economic development, and family support services.
FOUNDER: T. Rashad Byrdsong
T. RASHAD BYRDSONG is a revolutionary activist who is focused on social justice through institutional changes that promise tangible benefits in African American communities where a vast number of the underserved population suffers from poverty, racial discrimination, and other systemic disparities. His emergence and influence as a grassroots activist, community organizer and effective leader stems from his experiences in the civil rights struggle, combat service in Vietnam, and membership in the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense (BPPSD). Mr. Byrdsong’s personal mission is the restoration, reclamation and transformation of distressed communities through strategic planning, collaboration, advocacy, education, and mobilization. His Afrocentric intervention paradigm is centered in a strengths based empowerment approach, recapturing the resiliency of families and equipping them with the necessary tools to move towards self-determination, self-sufficiency and sustainability.
Mr. Byrdsong, a deeply spiritual man, is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of a unique non-profit community based organization, Community Empowerment Association, Inc. (CEA). He has successfully expanded a $5,000 agency to over $2 million annually to provide programming that continues to address the effects of systemic issues associated with poverty, unemployment, substance abuse, violence, as well as truancy and emotional and behavioral disturbances in youth. Since its inception in 1994, CEA has served over 14,000 individuals, youth and families residing in 48 neighborhoods, enrolled in 74 schools and 9 school districts within Pittsburgh and Allegheny County.
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