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Goals and Objectives

· Address issues in the areas of youth education, behavior, values and  teenage pregnancy

· Systematically structure programming to address the needs of youth and provide them with the tools to achieve success in life

· Work to enhance economic development through homeownership, credit counseling, housing development and renovation

Family Life Community Development Corporation is a 16 year old grassroots 501(c) 3 nonprofit organization, incorporated on December 1, 2000. The organization, over the past sixteen years, has demonstrated foundational soundness and competency in addressing some of the social and economical needs of the disenfranchised community in which it is located.

Family Life CDC has successfully piloted four programs over the past years. 1.) The Governor’s Program on Abstinence which was funded September 1, 2001 in the amount of nineteen thousand dollars. 2) “Out of Darkness into the Light” Substance Abuse Program which was supported through church resources and in-kind donations. 3) The “AA” Alcoholic Anonymous Program which was supported through volunteerism and church resources and 4) The Governor’s Safe and Drug Free After School Program in Partnership with Werner Park Elementary School, which was funded July 1, 2002 in the amount of twenty thousand, eight hundred ninety dollars.

Family Life CDC has also participated in the Community Job Readiness and Training Initiative funded January 3, 2005 in the amount of twenty three thousand dollars, the TANF Afterchool for All program funded September 14, 2005 in the amount of one hundred fifty thousand dollars, and was a recipient of the Community Development Block grant in January of 2006 in the amount of twenty five thousand dollars to fund Project Absence. In July of 2009 Family Life CDC received funding in the amount of two hundred thirty- one thousand, three hundred sixty-two dollars for the Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. This program provided services through July of 2011.  Our organization has also fostered forums, motivational seminars, counseling, social and educational activities to address the needs of South West Shreveport, Louisiana.

Our Organization plans to continue service to the community by providing: 1.) Afterschool programs for students in our community, 2.) financial planning for seminars to inform young adults on financial security, 3.) abstinence programs to provide youth with information on sex and the consequences of risky behaviors, and 4.) emergency assistance to families who have been victims of a natural disasters.