The InnerCity Empowerment Project (Innercept) aims to instill inner-city youth with a sense of pride, self-respect, self-reliance and self-motivation in order to foster the development of working class communities. By teaching youth about their history and culture, while also emphasizing the importance of modern scientific and technological knowledge, Innercept aims to promote self-knowledge, as the basis of all knowledge, and instilling within youth a spirit of self-determination, basic academic scholarship whereby, as a result, life skills will be enhanced.
ICEP proposes to design community and student-initiated programs which will promote youth and working class interests, creating a New Educational Order (NEO) and progressive, social reform agendas and public policies. Particular focus will target high "at-risk" populations, providing mentorship, advisement, peer and professional counseling and academic preparation programs and workshops teaching working class youth to empower themselves in order to develop a cadre of activists capable of activating social and economic justice leading to collective, community empowerment.
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