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Community Building and Revitalization

Civic Engagement Conference in Opelousas, Louisiana

ASRI Restores Community Integrity from the African American Experience

Building on a foundation for work in specific communities, ASRI/ASRD  has begun collaborative work in four distressed and culturally rich communities:

      • Cairo, Illinois 
      • Hopkins Park, Illinois 
      • St. Charles, Illinois
      • Chicago/Calumet Altgeld Gardens
      • Regional: Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri
      • Pulaski; Alexander; Will; Kane; Cook; Kankakee; Stark County
      • Impact Analysis Complete/Collaborative Efforts in Execution
  • Accomplishments:
    • Major progress made
    • Clarification of goals and priorities
    • Implementation of selected community-based interventions and strategies
    • Achieving short-term objectives
  • Bold human service reform initiative.
  • Revitalize poverty-stricken African progeny’s communities.
  • Provide opportunities for the neediest citizens of historically 6th RGCC underrepresented groups of color.
  • Major hallmark of this priority initiative are partnerships.
      • National Trust Preservation Funds 
  • African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund
      • Institute on Policy and Civic Engagement
      • State universities
      • Other state agencies
      • Private sector bAfrican American Cultural Heritage Action Fundusiness
      • Local residents
      • Multi-Level elected officials
      • Faith-based organizations
  • Going beyond the traditional focus on social services, ASRI / 6th RGCC  committed to a more comprehensive agenda that includes building strong infrastructures, achieving economic turnaround and creating a foundation for future growth.

 

African Haitian Creole Descendants out of St. St. Martin Parish in Louisiana.
ASRI First Annual Hon. Elijah Muhammad Humanitarian Award Presentation, hosted at The University of Illinois at Chicago in 2004 in honor of Dr. Michael Blakely of Williams and Mary College in Williamsburg, VA, the second oldest College in the United States.
Creole Community Development in St. Martinville, isiana
Civic Engagement meeting with Dr. Muhammad (in the middle) with at that time Superintendent Aaron Flegance of the St. Martin Parish Schools (on the left) and Charles Larroque the Director of Codofil Francophone of Louisiana and Co Producer of the film "This is My Story, A Story that Never Been Told". This meeting was to help develop tourism around the Creole culture in Louisiana

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