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YOUTH OPPORTUNITY! BUFFALO™

What Youth Opportunity! Buffalo™ Proposes:

10-Weeks | Positive Youth Development Orientation

10-Weeks | Youth Leadership Transformation Exercises

20-Weeks | Positive Youth Lifestyle Approach Mentoring

School Day and/or After-school Schedule(s): Activities

Comprehensive Case Management + Service Coordination

STEM/STEAM Programmes & YO! Buffalo Expositions

Youth Entrepreneurship Training [Y/ET] & Co-operatives

FirstMarket™ | A (proprietary) CTRC Initiative & Project

Youth Money Management & Finances Counseling [Y/MFC]

Youth Neighborhood Improvement Corps [Y/NIC]

Youth Talent Bureau & Opportunity Fund [Y/TB-Of]

City Youth Talent Showcase [CYTS] | Weekly Event

Harambee Buffalo™ | The (City-wide) Creative Youth Arts Festival | Annual

𝐃.𝐈.𝐀.𝐌.𝐎.𝐍.𝐃.™ : DetermiNATION In a Moment of N̳o̳w̳ Destiny - STEM/STEAM Focused, Positive, Creative Youth Culture

Langston Meadows {The Meadow Cafe} | Members-only Poet's and Writer's Corner focused Web Cafe

CAC Youth Mobile Food Pantry [CAC/YMFP] | Weekly

School Supplies Outreach [SSO] | Monthly

The Community Closet™ Clothing & More Giveaways | Monthly

Neighborhood Viaduct Beautification & Mural Contest [NVBM/c]™

Neighborhood Pathways Youth Corps [NP/YC]™

Fishing Trips (Spring-Fall Seasons, only)

YO! Buffalo™ Technology Solutions: The MyBuffalo™ App+

Heaven™ | New and Digital Media Arts Web Series

Futures™ | Buffalo Youth: Job-Shadowing [B/YJS]™, Career Explorer [B/YCE]™, and Professions Navigator [B/YPN]™

Jr. CommuniverCity™ (Featuring: Nonviolence365® Curriculum; Provider: The King Center-Atlanta (GA)

Resolved For Success™ (NV365®-trained, Community Conflict Resolution, and Legal Assistance Advocacy & Outreach: Board)

The Community Corner™ Youth Literacy & Writing Workshop

YO! Buffalo™ Sessions™ | VIP/Celebrity: Talks

Community Technology Resource Centre [CTRC]™ | Neighborhood: Youth and Community Computing Lab & Youth Technology Certifications Academy

YO! Buffalo™ Fields™ | Guided, Supervised, Municipal, Regional, National, and Study Abroad: Field Trips

YO! Buffalo™ Community Gardens™ | Collaborative, Co-operative, Urban Farming Project

YO! Buffalo™ RISE™ | Clean Energy, Green Sector, Technology Industry, Allied Health Sector, and Advanced Manufacturing Job Training Referral Network™

G.E.D. Acquisition & Attainment: Assistance

The East Buffalo Collaborative Partnership [EBCP]™ | Governing Body

Homework Helps™ | Assistance & Mentoring

S.T.E.P. S. I™/II™ | Mental Health Screenings, Grief/Trauma Counseling Services, and Community Wellness Referral Channel [CWRC] Partnership

YO! Buffalo™ Community Health Screenings & Services [C/HSS]™ | Focus Areas: Dental Services, General and Annual Physicals, Optician Services, Individualized Environmental Impacts Assessments, and General (as well as Homeopathic) Health & Wellness Services

[Annual] YO! Buffalo™ and D.I.A.M.O.N.D.™ Youth Pitch Competition | The "50 Jefferson Youth Small Business Competition and Entrepreneur Award™ Initiative" | Please Note: That all "50 Jefferson Competition (Et al.) Awardee" Youths, must be a (then) current YO! Buffalo™ Programme and/or a D.I.A.M.O.N.D.™ Programme Participant, and/or a (Programme) Graduate. No Exception(s). This is an end-of-year Event. All decisions of the "50 Jefferson (Et al.) Youth Small Business Competition" Judges, will be final.

'The Difference' Is Our Mission

CAC is a different variety of Public Relations Company. Our Client's name, is Community. We're a Community Relations Company. Our goal is to rebuild Community, by building the capacity of the Persons whom reside within it.

THE YO! BUFFALO™ TEAM | Youth OPportunity is on the move

Ms. Sherry Sherrill - UB Student, Entrepreneur, Intrapreneur, Creative, and Consultancy: Leader

Pastor Kenneth Simmons - Youth Recreation Programming and Neighborhood/Community Activist: Leader

Sherry Sherrill is a four-plus decades Community Activist, in Buffalo Niagara Region's, Upstate Western New York Area's, 2nd largest City in the U.S. State Of New York: Buffalo. She is, too, the Founder, President, and CEO, of Covington Associates Consulting | CAC. She is, also, in addition to the above, an (aspirant) Global Warming/Climate Change and Environmental Sciences: Researcher, a (classically trained) Pianist, and Poet, as well as an Author (Fiction, and Non-Fiction), Singer-Songwriter, (hopeful) Screenwriter, and Playwright.

Pastor Kenneth Simmons - Youth Recreation Programming and Neighborhood/Community Activist: Leader

Pastor Kenneth Simmons, is a respected Neighborhood and Community Activist, as well as (longtime) Youth Recreational Programming: Leader.

Pastor Timothy Newkirk - Community/Neighborhood Advocacy, and Community Crisis Outreach: Leader

Pastor Kenneth Simmons - Youth Recreation Programming and Neighborhood/Community Activist: Leader

Ras Jomo Akono - Building Trades Professional, Creative, Broadcaster, Community Advocacy: Leader

Pastor Timothy Newkirk, is City of Buffalo's Black and African American Community's "go-to" Community Advocate, whether a Matter concerns a Family Crisis, or an Issue involves a Grief and Trauma Circumstance. He is, as well, the respected Founder and Senior Pastor, of G.Y.C. Ministries.

Ras Jomo Akono - Building Trades Professional, Creative, Broadcaster, Community Advocacy: Leader

Mr. Nirel Christian - SUNY UB Student, STEM/STEAM Major, and Buffalo Youth Programme Access: Leader

Ras Jomo Akono - Building Trades Professional, Creative, Broadcaster, Community Advocacy: Leader

Ras Jomo Akono, is a respected Black, African, West Indian, and African American News and Information: Guru. An AM Radio Broadcast Programme Founder, and Host, he is, iIn addition, a (Professional) Union-certified Carpenter, as well as ( Professional) African Drumming: Musician.

Mr. Nirel Christian - SUNY UB Student, STEM/STEAM Major, and Buffalo Youth Programme Access: Leader

Mr. Nirel Christian, is a SUNY University at Buffalo [UB] Student, majoring in Biomedical Sciences. He is committed to facilitating Youth's Access to "new day/new way" STEM and STEAM Learning Opportunities, and Programmes.

Bishop Frederick A. Gelsey, Sr. - Youth Violence Prevention Program Author & Advocacy: Leader

Mr. Nirel Christian - SUNY UB Student, STEM/STEAM Major, and Buffalo Youth Programme Access: Leader

Bishop Frederick Gelsey, is a (longtime) Faith Community: Leader. He is, in addition, the respected Creator, Author, Founder, and Training Programme Coordinator, of an (innovative) Community Empowerment Approach, titled: T.H.E.P.P.™

Ms. Ruquaayah Rivera-Collins, PMHNP-BC, WHNP-BC - Minority Health Disparity Mitigation: Leader

Ms. Ruquaayah Rivera-Collins, is a dedicated Professional and Healthcare Services Practitioner. She is committed to the recovery, and the furtherance, of Vulnerable Population's: Health and Wellness. Broadly experienced in Women's Health Services, she is, too, an respected Minority Healthcare: Advocate, Activist, and Leader.

Mr. Tariq Nazeem - SUNY UB Student, STEM/STEAM Major, and Tech Careers Advocacy: Leader

Ms. Ruquaayah Rivera-Collins, PMHNP-BC, WHNP-BC - Minority Health Disparity Mitigation: Leader

Mr. Tariq Nazeem, is a SUNY University at Buffalo Student, majoring in Computer Science.

Ms. Stacey Grant, WHNP, MS, BSN, RN - Minority Health Disparities Mitigation: Leader

Ms. Ruquaayah Rivera-Collins, PMHNP-BC, WHNP-BC - Minority Health Disparity Mitigation: Leader

Ms. Stacey Grant, WHNP, MS, BSN, RN - Minority Health Disparities Mitigation: Leader

Ms. Stacey Grant, is a committed Women's Healthcare Services Professional and Practitioner. She is dedicated to the attainment, advancement, and preservation of the Health, and the Wellness, of the United States of America's (Vulnerable Population) Community Residents. In addition to being a respected Minority and Women's Healthcare Service Provider, she is also (an): Activist, Advocate, and Leader.

Ms. Felicia Evans, LMSW-2 - Minority Health Disparities Mitigation: Leader

Mr. Kenya Peoples - Youth Athletics Program & Supportive Youth Development Initiatives: Leader

Ms. Stacey Grant, WHNP, MS, BSN, RN - Minority Health Disparities Mitigation: Leader

Ms. Felicia Evans, is a committed Professional who is dedicated to the diagnosis, treatment, recovery, advancement, and preservation of the Health and Wellness of the United States of America's (Vulnerable Population) Community Residents. She is a respected Mental Health Wellness Service Provider, as well as (an) dedicated: Activist, Advocate, and Leader.

Ms. Le'Candice Durham - Positive Youth Empowerment & Neighborhood Advocacy: Leader

Mr. Kenya Peoples - Youth Athletics Program & Supportive Youth Development Initiatives: Leader

Ms. Le'Candice Durham, is a (longtime) Positive Youth Development: Activist, as well as (an) respected Neighborhood Improvement and Community Empowerment: Advocate.

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Mr. Kenya Peoples - Youth Athletics Program & Supportive Youth Development Initiatives: Leader

Mr. Kenya Peoples, is a (longtime) Youth Development Advocate, as well as (an) committed Positive Youth Support NetworksBuilder. He is, too, a (focused) Community Activist.

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Mr. Rome Hunt - Youth Athletics Program & Supportive Youth Development Initiatives: Leader

Mr. Rome Hunt, is a respected (longtime) City of Buffalo Youth Development Advocate, as well as a Positive Youth Support Networks Builder, and (an) focused: Community Activist.

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TBA - Harambee Buffalo™ | City-wide Creative Youth Arts Festival: Leader

Mr. Rome Hunt - Youth Athletics Program & Supportive Youth Development Initiatives: Leader

This annual Harambee™, is a Creative Youth Arts Festival, and Positive Youth Development Support Network. Launched during late Summer of Y2022, it is a highlighted, incredibly enjoyable, end-of-Summer: feature. At CAC, we love supporting Positive Youth Development, and assisting Creative Youth Expression(s). Our aim is to pave the way toward their (immediate) empowerment, as well as contribute to their (long-range) Success potential. If you are a Creative intent on 'opening the door', and ensuring Community Youths are exposed to a broad range of Cultural Community Interactions, we're looking for you to help ensure that (all) their intercultural horizons may be extended in the direction of full-fledged citizenship and participation, (and) throughout global community society, Please contact CAC, today.: CovingtonAssocConsulting@Gmail.Com

Mr. Douglas Pressley - Community CultureWorkX™ Initiatives: Leader

Mr. Rome Hunt - Youth Athletics Program & Supportive Youth Development Initiatives: Leader

B2TF™ NeTworX™ | Heavensgate Company Information Technology : Division Leader

There aren't very many persons with the tenacity and veracity of the African Culture Studies clout, of Mr. Doug Pressley. He is a longtime collector of knowledge, information, and artefacts, indicating and/or stemmed from the Diaspora's multifaceted, cultural imperative-infused, pallet(s). Simply stated, if African Culture Artefacts were a blanket, he's got the Community covered.

B2TF™ NeTworX™ | Heavensgate Company Information Technology : Division Leader

TBA: Creative Youth (Talent) Pathways Development & City Youth Opportunity Advocacy: Leader

B2TF™ NeTworX™ | Heavensgate Company Information Technology : Division Leader

If you are a (certified) Information Technology, Information Science, Network Topology and/or Network Administration guru, CAC Wants You! Reach out, say "hello".

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TBA: Minority Community Resident and Family Household Supportive Initiatives: Leader

TBA: Creative Youth (Talent) Pathways Development & City Youth Opportunity Advocacy: Leader

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TBA: Creative Youth (Talent) Pathways Development & City Youth Opportunity Advocacy: Leader

You are the (first) Project Administration Assistant to the Director of Harambee Buffalo | The (City-wide) Creative Youth Arts Festival. Can you 'handle' this role, and/or its responsibilities? Well. What are you procrastinating for? Don't languish! Apply today.

B2TF™ Digital and New Media Creative Arts Group | Heavensgate Company: Leader

Neighborhood Commerce Strategies & Black Business Community (Re)Development Advocacy: Leader

B2TF™ Digital and New Media Creative Arts Group | Heavensgate Company: Leader

Are you great at Drawing? At Animation? Animoto? Skilled at impactful Powerpoint presentation? Claymation? Terrific at copywriting? A born Storytelling _______? Son, or Daughter, of a Storyteller? Love Comic Books? A fan of Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids®? Graduate or (currently) attending a State University of New York [SUNY} Community College, or University? CAC Wants You! Reach out, friend. We're true blue, and you've study that shows thine self: approved! Horns Up!

CAC Community Resident Empowerment Teams Liaison : Leader

Neighborhood Commerce Strategies & Black Business Community (Re)Development Advocacy: Leader

B2TF™ Digital and New Media Creative Arts Group | Heavensgate Company: Leader

You will aid the recruitment of the East SIde/East Buffalo (Creative Arts) Collaborative Partnership [ES/EB/CP], and (all) the remaining CAC Initiatives-concerned Community Resident-led Board Groups, excluding, The Buffalo 5 Group's Board of Directors. Cant wait to meet you!

Neighborhood Commerce Strategies & Black Business Community (Re)Development Advocacy: Leader

TBA: Buffalo City Neighborhood Youth Success Strategies Advocacy & Teen Workforce Initiatives: Board

FirstMarket.Org (i.e. 1stMarket.Org), is waiting on you! You will help conduct the Buffalo Niagara Region's 'onramp' to the 'Black Wall Street'-concerned Information Super Highway, The Internet, The Global e-Commerce Business Marketplace. It is (now) global, in size, breadth, coverage, reach, extension, dimension, and scope. Are you ready?

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TBA: Buffalo City Neighborhood Youth Success Strategies Advocacy & Teen Workforce Initiatives: Board

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TBA: Community Household Genealogy Project Initiatives and Community HealthWealth Advocacy: Board

TBA: Buffalo City Neighborhood Youth Success Strategies Advocacy & Teen Workforce Initiatives: Board

TBA: Community Household Genealogy Project Initiatives and Community HealthWealth Advocacy: Board

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TBA: Black Business Community Outreach & (Re)Development Advocacy: Leader

TBA: Buffalo City Neighborhood Youth Success Strategies Advocacy & Teen Workforce Initiatives: Board

TBA: Community Household Genealogy Project Initiatives and Community HealthWealth Advocacy: Board

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WHAT YOUTH WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT in America CAN BE.

YOUTH OPPORTUNITY! BUFFALO™

What Youth Opportunity! Buffalo™ Proposes:

'The Difference' Is Our Mission

THE YO! BUFFALO™ TEAM | Youth OPportunity is on the move

Ms. Sherry Sherrill - UB Student, Entrepreneur, Intrapreneur, Creative, and Consultancy: Leader

Pastor Kenneth Simmons - Youth Recreation Programming and Neighborhood/Community Activist: Leader

Pastor Kenneth Simmons - Youth Recreation Programming and Neighborhood/Community Activist: Leader

Pastor Kenneth Simmons - Youth Recreation Programming and Neighborhood/Community Activist: Leader

Pastor Kenneth Simmons - Youth Recreation Programming and Neighborhood/Community Activist: Leader

Pastor Kenneth Simmons - Youth Recreation Programming and Neighborhood/Community Activist: Leader

Pastor Timothy Newkirk - Community/Neighborhood Advocacy, and Community Crisis Outreach: Leader

Pastor Kenneth Simmons - Youth Recreation Programming and Neighborhood/Community Activist: Leader

Ras Jomo Akono - Building Trades Professional, Creative, Broadcaster, Community Advocacy: Leader

Ras Jomo Akono - Building Trades Professional, Creative, Broadcaster, Community Advocacy: Leader

Mr. Nirel Christian - SUNY UB Student, STEM/STEAM Major, and Buffalo Youth Programme Access: Leader

Ras Jomo Akono - Building Trades Professional, Creative, Broadcaster, Community Advocacy: Leader

Mr. Nirel Christian - SUNY UB Student, STEM/STEAM Major, and Buffalo Youth Programme Access: Leader

Mr. Nirel Christian - SUNY UB Student, STEM/STEAM Major, and Buffalo Youth Programme Access: Leader

Mr. Nirel Christian - SUNY UB Student, STEM/STEAM Major, and Buffalo Youth Programme Access: Leader

Bishop Frederick A. Gelsey, Sr. - Youth Violence Prevention Program Author & Advocacy: Leader

Mr. Nirel Christian - SUNY UB Student, STEM/STEAM Major, and Buffalo Youth Programme Access: Leader

Mr. Nirel Christian - SUNY UB Student, STEM/STEAM Major, and Buffalo Youth Programme Access: Leader

Ms. Ruquaayah Rivera-Collins, PMHNP-BC, WHNP-BC - Minority Health Disparity Mitigation: Leader

Ms. Ruquaayah Rivera-Collins, PMHNP-BC, WHNP-BC - Minority Health Disparity Mitigation: Leader

Ms. Ruquaayah Rivera-Collins, PMHNP-BC, WHNP-BC - Minority Health Disparity Mitigation: Leader

Mr. Tariq Nazeem - SUNY UB Student, STEM/STEAM Major, and Tech Careers Advocacy: Leader

Ms. Ruquaayah Rivera-Collins, PMHNP-BC, WHNP-BC - Minority Health Disparity Mitigation: Leader

Ms. Ruquaayah Rivera-Collins, PMHNP-BC, WHNP-BC - Minority Health Disparity Mitigation: Leader

Ms. Stacey Grant, WHNP, MS, BSN, RN - Minority Health Disparities Mitigation: Leader

Ms. Ruquaayah Rivera-Collins, PMHNP-BC, WHNP-BC - Minority Health Disparity Mitigation: Leader

Ms. Stacey Grant, WHNP, MS, BSN, RN - Minority Health Disparities Mitigation: Leader

Ms. Felicia Evans, LMSW-2 - Minority Health Disparities Mitigation: Leader

Mr. Kenya Peoples - Youth Athletics Program & Supportive Youth Development Initiatives: Leader

Ms. Stacey Grant, WHNP, MS, BSN, RN - Minority Health Disparities Mitigation: Leader

Ms. Le'Candice Durham - Positive Youth Empowerment & Neighborhood Advocacy: Leader

Mr. Kenya Peoples - Youth Athletics Program & Supportive Youth Development Initiatives: Leader

Mr. Kenya Peoples - Youth Athletics Program & Supportive Youth Development Initiatives: Leader

Mr. Kenya Peoples - Youth Athletics Program & Supportive Youth Development Initiatives: Leader

Mr. Kenya Peoples - Youth Athletics Program & Supportive Youth Development Initiatives: Leader

Mr. Kenya Peoples - Youth Athletics Program & Supportive Youth Development Initiatives: Leader

Mr. Rome Hunt - Youth Athletics Program & Supportive Youth Development Initiatives: Leader

Mr. Rome Hunt - Youth Athletics Program & Supportive Youth Development Initiatives: Leader

Mr. Rome Hunt - Youth Athletics Program & Supportive Youth Development Initiatives: Leader

TBA - Harambee Buffalo™ | City-wide Creative Youth Arts Festival: Leader

Mr. Rome Hunt - Youth Athletics Program & Supportive Youth Development Initiatives: Leader

Mr. Rome Hunt - Youth Athletics Program & Supportive Youth Development Initiatives: Leader

Mr. Douglas Pressley - Community CultureWorkX™ Initiatives: Leader

Mr. Rome Hunt - Youth Athletics Program & Supportive Youth Development Initiatives: Leader

B2TF™ NeTworX™ | Heavensgate Company Information Technology : Division Leader

B2TF™ NeTworX™ | Heavensgate Company Information Technology : Division Leader

TBA: Creative Youth (Talent) Pathways Development & City Youth Opportunity Advocacy: Leader

B2TF™ NeTworX™ | Heavensgate Company Information Technology : Division Leader

TBA: Minority Community Resident and Family Household Supportive Initiatives: Leader

TBA: Creative Youth (Talent) Pathways Development & City Youth Opportunity Advocacy: Leader

TBA: Creative Youth (Talent) Pathways Development & City Youth Opportunity Advocacy: Leader

TBA: Creative Youth (Talent) Pathways Development & City Youth Opportunity Advocacy: Leader

TBA: Creative Youth (Talent) Pathways Development & City Youth Opportunity Advocacy: Leader

TBA: Creative Youth (Talent) Pathways Development & City Youth Opportunity Advocacy: Leader

B2TF™ Digital and New Media Creative Arts Group | Heavensgate Company: Leader

Neighborhood Commerce Strategies & Black Business Community (Re)Development Advocacy: Leader

B2TF™ Digital and New Media Creative Arts Group | Heavensgate Company: Leader

CAC Community Resident Empowerment Teams Liaison : Leader

Neighborhood Commerce Strategies & Black Business Community (Re)Development Advocacy: Leader

B2TF™ Digital and New Media Creative Arts Group | Heavensgate Company: Leader

Neighborhood Commerce Strategies & Black Business Community (Re)Development Advocacy: Leader

Neighborhood Commerce Strategies & Black Business Community (Re)Development Advocacy: Leader

TBA: Buffalo City Neighborhood Youth Success Strategies Advocacy & Teen Workforce Initiatives: Board

TBA: Buffalo City Neighborhood Youth Success Strategies Advocacy & Teen Workforce Initiatives: Board

TBA: Buffalo City Neighborhood Youth Success Strategies Advocacy & Teen Workforce Initiatives: Board

TBA: Buffalo City Neighborhood Youth Success Strategies Advocacy & Teen Workforce Initiatives: Board

TBA: Community Household Genealogy Project Initiatives and Community HealthWealth Advocacy: Board

TBA: Buffalo City Neighborhood Youth Success Strategies Advocacy & Teen Workforce Initiatives: Board

TBA: Community Household Genealogy Project Initiatives and Community HealthWealth Advocacy: Board

TBA: Black Business Community Outreach & (Re)Development Advocacy: Leader

TBA: Buffalo City Neighborhood Youth Success Strategies Advocacy & Teen Workforce Initiatives: Board

TBA: Community Household Genealogy Project Initiatives and Community HealthWealth Advocacy: Board

CAC's Strategic Alliances Include: The King Center

CAC's Business & Entrepreneur Development Pathways

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