COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMMING

Crime Pre­ven­tion Through Envi­ron­men­tal Design (CPTED)

This pro­gram is designed to help com­mu­nity mem­bers’ work toward reclaim­ing their neigh­bor­hoods and a sense of safety.  Ques­tions such as:

• What can I do as an indi­vid­ual prop­erty owner or stake­holder to increase com­mu­nity safety?
• What resources are avail­able to the com­mu­nity to facil­i­tate com­mu­nity pre­ven­tion through envi­ron­men­tal design?
• What is it that no one can do now, but that needs to be done?

These ques­tions are answered in group set­tings and the process for reclaim­ing the sanc­tity of the neigh­bor­hood is explored by indi­vid­u­als, groups and ser­vice providers.  We work with par­tic­i­pants to break the process down into small stages with spe­cific tasks for par­tic­u­lar peo­ple.  In this way the prob­lems, solu­tions, and avail­able assets can be iden­ti­fied in an orderly and log­i­cal process and the work to reclaim can begin.  Part­ner to this ini­tia­tive is the City of Raleigh’s Plan­ning Department.

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Lead­er­ship & Sus­tain­abil­ity Institute

The  Exec­u­tive Lead­er­ship and Sus­tain­abil­ity Insti­tute pro­vides an oppor­tu­nity for those  in lead­er­ship and man­age­ment posi­tions – as well as those being groomed to take on lead­er­ship posi­tions within a year to attend a two-day lead­er­ship sus­tain­abil­ity insti­tute.  Com­mu­nity and small busi­ness lead­ers will receive train­ing in how to cre­ate a sus­tain­able orga­ni­za­tion by learn­ing to:

• fundraise effec­tively
• build a “results based” strate­gic plan
• work for the “good of the whole: with their board of directors
• engage and col­lab­o­rate with other agen­cies to meet their finan­cial goals
• man­age through change
• prac­tice self-care, per­sonal mas­tery, eth­i­cal com­mu­ni­ca­tions, and dis­ci­plines of effective
• man­age­ment
• think crit­i­cally about the dimen­sions of diver­sity and how they work for you
• become a ser­vant leader
• suc­cess­fully pro­mote their orga­ni­za­tion and per­sonal goals

The South­east Raleigh Exec­u­tive Lead­er­ship & Sus­tain­abil­ity Insti­tute will also pro­vide cus­tomized orga­ni­za­tional devel­op­ment con­sult­ing ser­vices for non-profit orga­ni­za­tions and com­mu­nity lead­ers within the South­east Raleigh area.

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South­east Raleigh Com­mu­nity Dis­pute Res­o­lu­tion Cen­ter (C.D.R.C.)

The C.D.R.C. facil­i­tates a prob­lem solv­ing (medi­a­tion) process in a safe space where cit­i­zens can learn to resolve con­flicts on their own with a trained third party facil­i­ta­tor. SERA, Inc. believes that for many neigh­bor­hoods and com­mu­nity dis­putes (i.e. neighbor/neighbor, employer/employee, business/citizen, etc.) South­east res­i­dents do not have to ven­ture out­side of their neigh­bor­hoods to find res­o­lu­tion to their com­mu­nity conflicts.

Ser­vices also include:

• Medi­a­tion processes for par­ents and their teens
  • to cre­ate a bet­ter under­stand­ing between par­ents and chil­dren increas­ing greater har­mony in homes
• a community/police advo­cacy program
  • enhances com­mu­nity safety efforts by set­ting a clear and col­lab­o­ra­tive agenda for the South­east Raleigh com­mu­nity which is advo­cated for and brought to fruition by police and the com­mu­nity in partnership
• Medi­a­tion train­ing (includes train­ing for youth)
  • medi­a­tion skills training
• a com­mu­nity and court refer­ral medi­a­tion program
  • quasi-criminal mat­ters or civil infrac­tions are addressed as well as con­flict res­o­lu­tion prior to the fil­ing of a com­plaint in court

Too many of our res­i­dents end up in court sys­tems for quasi-criminal mat­ters or civil infrac­tions that could bet­ter be addressed out­side of the court­room in an envi­ron­ment which is con­ducive to cre­at­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties for peace­fully resolv­ing, for the long term, the mat­ter that started with a com­plaint or the fil­ing of a com­plaint in court.

Par­ties are referred to SERA, Inc. from the court prior to a court deter­mined adju­di­ca­tion or the plain­tiff expresses an inter­est in tak­ing the issue through the medi­a­tion process, which would include the devel­op­ment of a writ­ten agree­ment which all par­ties agree to fol­low, thus sav­ing the court and par­ties involved, time and stress and allow­ing the par­ties to develop a bet­ter under­stand­ing of the inter­est that brought them together in the first place.

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“Step­ping Into Self” Entre­pre­neur­ial and Empow­er­ment Project for Women

Designed for women who are unem­ployed or under employed feel­ing the bur­den of poverty, mar­gin­al­iza­tion, iso­la­tion and some­times despair this pro­gram works to trans­form self image through infor­ma­tion, out­reach, edu­ca­tion, self advo­cacy, and mind, body, spirit aware­ness while cre­at­ing peer and men­tor­ship sup­port.  Aimed at increas­ing the capac­ity of south­east Raleigh women to become and remain eco­nom­i­cally self-sufficient and align them­selves with sys­tems which will add to their core skills sets as it relates to social, pro­fes­sional, eco­nomic, self-advocacy, and health­care empowerment.

We pro­vide link­ages to women for:

• Pro­fes­sional men­tor­ship opportunities
• Finan­cial man­age­ment services
• Career and entre­pre­neur­ial development
• Spir­i­tual and social development
• Stress reduc­tion
• Self-actualization plan­ning
• Com­mu­nity networking

Each of the four part­ner­ing orga­ni­za­tions has demon­strated a strong com­mit­ment to suc­cess­fully advo­cat­ing for and serv­ing indi­vid­u­als and com­mu­ni­ties that his­tor­i­cally have lacked access to edu­ca­tional, psycho-physiological and health­care sup­port as well as cut­ting edge eco­nomic and men­tor­ship sup­port oppor­tu­ni­ties toward attain­ing the goals of self-actualization and advancement.

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