|
MISSION
To
promote policies, community strategies and a funding agenda
to assure the optimal development of the State’s African
American male population.
|
GOALS |
|
1 |
To develop and promote activities
that will enhance the life-chances
and life-opportunities of the
African American male.
|
|
2 |
To motivate males of African
ancestry to challenge social,
political, educational and economic
policies that are deleterious to
their optimal development.
|
|
3 |
To facilitate the systematic and
critical examination of issues –
both internal and external- that
will lead to the education,
celebration and replication of
exceptional male leadership within
families, schools, churches,
mosques, and the community-at-large.
|
|
4 |
To recommend and promote
action-steps, help-seeking patterns,
rituals, ceremonies and practices
that will allow men of African
ancestry to recapture and reaffirm
their FATHERHOOD responsibilities,
and their love, respect and
allegiance to each other, their
women, their families and to their
communities.
|
|
5 |
To develop an effective “system of
accountability” that will set clear
standards and parameters for male
actions and behaviors within the
African American community.
|
|
6 |
To provide males of African ancestry
with educational information and
advocacy strategies needed to
achieve optimal spiritual,
emotional, psychological, physical
and financial health.
|
|
|
