Our Mission
Center For The Empowerment of Families (CEF), a 501(c)3 organization, is a community based organization that empowers people of color and other groups in underserved populations to build and sustain healthy families--emotionally, physically, economically, socially and spiritually, that will reverberate throughout their communities.
Why We Began
Center for the Empowerment of Families was formed in 2005 to address the problem of the disintegration of the family. Our focus is to empower families of color and other underserved populations (e.g. foster care, at-risk youth, incarcerated youths and adults, single parents, and fathers) to build and sustain healthy families and relationships. Our certified facilitators teach participants relationship skills that strengthen relational commitment and elevate the importance of family values of unity and health that extend to community.
The systems that perpetuate disparity in healthcare, educational opportunity, job opportunity, racism, poverty and other social ills undermine healthy family and community living, especially for people of color and other marginalized populations. Center for the Empowerment of Families serves as the voice of the voiceless for some discarded populations. For others, CEF serves to turn up the volume. We welcome and are humbly proud to partner with community and faith-based organizations whose missions resonate with empowering those individuals, families and communities rendered and perceived as powerless.
We strive to serve.
Sincerely,
Dr. Sharon Rabb. |