OUR MISSION
Your Time For Creative Empowerment, Inc., a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, works with youth and their families to identify solutions to 21st century challenges and pitfalls.
We empower youth and parents of both secular and faith-based communities through creative means. These include the Arts, Fashion and Culture alongside creative counseling techniques.
Mechanisms are in place to improve interpersonal relationships and avoid pitfalls that are unique to life in the 21st century.
Our goal is to identify and effectively develop healthy problem-solving, enhance personal development and increase cultural sensitivity.
"The greatest impact was how Steven Vasquez was able to succeed amidst all the barriers he had to overcome being an Immigrant. I pray he accomplishes all that God has for him."
Your Time For Creative Empowerment, Inc. Testimonials
Our Your Time For Community Networking Soirée is an opportunity for Long Island's middle and high school students, college-bound high school graduates and current college students to experience an inter-generational professional and social relationship with a diverse pool of male and female community role models representing the arts, academia, human services and local politics.
Our Get-Set Mindset workshop is offered to middle school students annually. This age-appropriate art-related workshop introduces creative tools students can use to navigate life at school, home and community. Emphasis is placed on healthy ways students can handle peer pressure, bullying and low self-esteem.
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Our free Self-Empowerment Workshop for High School students addresses a need expressed by college-bound graduates and their parents for heightened awareness, understanding and the tools to navigate the many challenges which can interfere with college success. Among the challenges this workshop covers are issues regarding separation from home, time management, money management, values, peer relationships, internet safety, study habits, alcohol, drugs and sex.
Our free Self-Empowerment Workshop for High School students addresses a need expressed by college-bound graduates and their parents for heightened awareness, understanding and the tools to navigate the many challenges which can interfere with college success. Among the challenges this workshop covers are issues regarding separation from home, time management, money management, values, peer relationships, internet safety, study habits, alcohol, drugs and sex.
This is an annual arts initiative in place for youth in Long Island, Queens,and Brooklyn. Our goal is to utilize the arts, fashion and culture, as tools to navigate the challenges and pitfalls in a manner that would boost their self-esteem, create healthy solutions to obstacles, and raise awareness of the effective role the arts play in society.
The contest is open to students in 9th through twelfth grade. College scholarships are awarded to college-bound winners in the 11th and 12th grade.