About
Center for Teen Empowerment empowers urban youth to address community issues through peace-promoting initiatives, inspiring leadership and positive change.
OUR MISSION - To employ, train, and empower youth to, in collaboration with adults, create peace, equity, and justice.
OUR VISION - We envision a world in which youth with adults, in mutually respectful and supportive relationships, use their voices creatively to inspire, lead, and empower their communities to achieve justice and peace.
The Center for Teen Empowerment employs and trains youth ages 14-19 to plan and carry out neighborhood-based youth organizing initiatives that promote peace, equity, and justice.
Through group facilitation, the arts, and collaboration with community members and leaders, we support youth as they process their experiences, heal from trauma, and then use their experiences as a platform to change the community for the better.
