STAFF
Horace L. Moore
Founder/Executive Director
Victor Young
Director of Programming
Vaughn Curmon
Director of Special Services
OUR Goals
Keir Nelson
Director of Outreach & Activities
To increase the
representation of young black
men in higher education and
professional endeavors.
David Nelson
Director of Strategic Planning
John Robinson
Youth Liaison/D.I.T.
To improve the quality of life for
participants through collaborative
skill building efforts via public and
private organizations.
To effectively reduce levels of high
school dropout, joblessness and the
increasingly high rate of incarceration.
RECLAIM YOUng MEN
Susan T. Delmoor-Rodriguez
Director of Communications/Parent Liaison
Dante Leary
Asst. Youth Liaison/Coord. Outreach & Activities
Quintin Thomas
Asst. Youth Liaison/Coord. Special Services
TransForm
Young Men’s LIVES
Chionesu Bakari Program for Young Men
Horace L. Moore - Founder/Executive Director
859 Hendrix Street, Brooklyn, New York, 11207
347-708-2008
@cbyoungmen
@Chionesu Bakari
www.Youngblackmanonline.org
859 Hendrix Street
Brooklyn, New York, 11207
347-708-2008
[email protected]
www.youngblackmanoline.org
Mission
Chionesu Bakari, a Swahili phrase
WHO WE ARE
Founded in 2006, Chionesu Bakari, is a mentoring program that
meaning “Guiding Light of Noble
has helped guide over 200 young black males from the ages of
Promise”, is engaged in the ministry
of saving and developing young black
8 - 18 through it’s Rites of Passage Program. This program takes
the young men out of their comfort zone and opens up their world
males by reclaiming, renaming, renewing
and reconditioning their minds. We strive
perspectives, guiding their development to the leaders they were
born to be. Chionesu Bakari boasts a 100% high school graduation
to motivate young black male children to
rate, with 92% of those young men currently enrolled in colleges/
think critically and prepare their minds and
universities across the country and 7 college/university graduates.*
the minds of their respective parents/guardians for the men they will grow to become.
HISTORY
Chionesu Bakari rose out of the desire to combat the societal challeng-
What WE DO
es that impact young men, externally and internally. Founder and Executive Director, Horace L. Moore recognized the problems confronting
Chionesu Bakari is a year round mentoring and personal development and Rites of Passage program,
offering services to young men between the ages of 8
through 18 years. The program provides hope in an en-
young black men were too complex to succumb to a single solution, so
he along with the talents of the initial staff started a summer program
based on wholistic principles of parent involvement, male led mentoring, both group and one-on-one mentoring, and education based
vironment that is a safe haven for the young men and is
broadening trips. Foundational components of the program include
committed to teaching and empowering them with values such as life skills, leadership, teamwork, brotherhood,
responsibility, integrity, respect, ownership, accountability and compassion as they transition from adolescence to
adulthood.
Fall Program: October - June
Program meets bi-weekly: Friday - 6:00pm - 9:00pm;
Saturday - 9:45am - 3:00pm.
Summer Program: July - August
Six week program beginning the first week in July and ending in
mid-August. Program meets daily: Monday - Friday 9:00 am - 5:00 pm.
Parents
Chionesu Bakari also includes a parent/guardian component to the program,
in which the values and teachings of the program are reinforced through
bi-weekly workshops and seminars and a yearly retreat. This critical component provides parents the necessary “tools” to parent their developing sons.
uniforms and deliberately referring to participants as “Young Men.”
These basic aspects of the program provide positive reinforcement
and a sense of belonging, -”A Brotherhood.”
Due to the success of the summer program in 2006, Chionesu Bakari
was extended to year-round programming, including external advocacy for the young men in their schools and families. Categories were
also formed to foster brotherhood in smaller groups; Pauper, Warriors,
WORKSHOPS
Financial Readiness
Conflict Mediation
Law Enforcement Awareness
Bible Study
Education & Career Development
Princes and the Rites of Passage; along with Big Brother/Little Broth-
Sexual Education
er mentoring. Chionesu Bakari’s unique mentoring approach ensures
Health Awareness
that all young men have two or more male mentors.
With over 9 years in service, we have positively impacted and expanded the world view of over 200 young men. The program has visited over
23 states and Canada, taken over 50 college/university tours and journeyed to every major Civil Rights historical landmark.
We are transforming the lives of young men! We proudly boast, the
majority of our over 40 CB Alums are in colleges/universities introduced to them from our CB trips. As testament, our committed CB
Parents & Alums giving back yearly speak to the proof of our impact.
Public Speaking
Rites of Passage
Performing/Creative Arts
(dance and staged presentations)
Day Trips in and around NYC
Overnight Trips
college tours, national landmarks
and more...