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July, 2001 C.I.A.J. World Youth Alliance, Inc. Breaks ground for a Modular Community Learning Center and Technology Tune-up Clinic™ ATLANTA – C.I.A.J. World Youth Alliance, Inc. is well into its 10th year as a non-profit youth services organization established to empower youth for local citizenship and global leadership through training, education, travel, and community service. WYA, Inc. announces an historic groundbreaking ceremony for the development of our Modular Community Learning Center and Technology Tune-up Clinic™ to take place at 12:00 noon on Wednesday, August 1, 2001 at 581 Simpson Street, SW, Atlanta. This groundbreaking event supports one of our core projects, the Visions In Practice (V.I.P.) Program. The V.I.P. Program is a multi-disciplinary, enrichment after-school program, which focuses on career exploration, cultural awareness, and global exposure. Our V.I.P. Program takes place in the northwest quadrant of metro-Atlanta, and is a viable part of the Atlanta Empowerment Zone initiative. Notable success of the V.I.P. Program has prompted the International Brotherhood of Police Officers, a division of the National Association of Government Employees, AFL-CIO to make a parcel of land available in the English Avenue area. Community leaders, educators, and parents applaud the Visions in Practice Program for its measurable reductions in teen pregnancy, high school dropout rates, drug and gang related activity, and notable behavioral modification among middle school youth in grades 5-8. The development of the Modular Community Learning Center and Technology Tune-up Clinic™ will provide increased accessibility to a greater number of our inner city youth, who desperately need this alternative take them off the streets approach. Research has shown that youngsters who are exposed to positive role models and mentors have a better grasp on what it takes to succeed. This bodes well for the choice WYA, Inc. made nearly eight years ago to work with the youth in the Vine City and English Avenue areas. Both communities are rich with historical character and have deep roots dating back as early as 1871. In the early 1900s, sections of the English Avenue and Vine City neighborhoods were known as a mecca for a host of prominent African-Americans whose legacies have carved an indelible niche in global history. In 2001, our Visions In Practice (V.I.P.) Program participants are proud to walk the same streets, play on the same playgrounds, attend the same schools, and yes, even drink from the same water fountains as these life-long Vine City residents have done heretofore. Rev. Ralph David Abernathy - Civil Rights Activist/Pastor, West Hunter
Baptist Church Today, these voices echo the call to strive for excellence in the realization that everyone has the ability to actualize their dreams and aspirations. WYA, Inc. is known for "visioneering" programs that have proven to be positive and effective agents of change in young people. We are very proud to develop the Modular Community Learning Center and Technology Tune-up Clinic™ as the next phase in this on-going process. On August 1st at noon, we will bring the past and present accomplishments together and we invite you to join us in this historic groundbreaking at 581 Simpson Street, SW, Atlanta. [ back to top ] May, 2001 C.I.A.J. World Youth Alliance Receives Community Service Award Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. Marietta-Roswell Alumnae Chapter has selected C.I.A.J. World Youth Alliance as a recipients of its Community Service Award. This coveted award went to organizations Those have excelled, not only in their field of concentration and stellar community service, but are also trailblazers in impacting society. C.I.A.J. World Youth Alliance, Inc. was selected for it’s inroads in international awareness and Involvement for the empowerment of youth ambassadors on a global level. [ back to top ] May, 1996 C.I.A.J World Youth Alliance announces "Cultural Stages" Program The World Youth Alliance Inc. announced its first annual Cultural Stages which was held May 4, 1996 from noon to 6 p.m. on East Lake Drive at Memorial Drive in southeast Atlanta. Cultural Stages is an outdoor festival for the community. Seven stages showcasing the multicultural art disciplines of are, music, dance, comedy, media art, and literature attempts to heighten cultural awareness and promote cultural education and cooperation on a community level through the arts The program was implemented to heighten cultural awareness and promote cultural education and cooperation on a community level through the arts. The festival displayed stages, which exhibited and presented Atlanta’s multi-cultural diversity through the arts: visual, music, media, literature, comedy, musical theater and dance. Cultural Stages was sponsored by the World Youth Alliance, Inc. a non-profit organization established to light an Olympic size flame in youth for local citizenship and global leadership. Its goal was to address youth crises through four initiatives: training, education, travel and community service. [ back to top ] C.I.A.J World Youth Alliance Announces New VIP Program Site
The Atlanta community site for VIP-West is now located on North Avenue in Northwest Atlanta. This 16,000 square foot facility accommodates many program expansions including recreation, kitchen corner and parent’s club. [ back to top ]
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