EMPOWERMENT NETWORK

The Network also hosted youth summits and small group meetings with teens, successful students, gang members, ex-offenders, single mothers, parents, and grandparents. The primary purpose was to gain resident and stakeholder input on issues, solutions, and priorities. This strategy continues today. The Empowerment Network made a commitment to hold monthly meetings with the community to provide updates, answer questions, provide opportunities for engagement, and periodically assess priorities and make adjustments to strategies... Personal Responsibility, Leadership Accountability, and Comprehensive Collaboration. We work together in a positive, proactive, and partnership-oriented way. At the heart of the Empowerment Movement, African-Americans and North Omaha residents are coming together to lift each other up and collaborating with others, as equal partners, to measurably transform communities... The Network model incorporates best practices and fresh insights identified by..

Also known as: Empower Omaha, The Empowerment Network

Primary location: Omaha United States