The organization’s primary mission/purpose is to provide needed services to individuals, to include but not be limited to, promoting academic excellence (without excuse) to children, youth and adults, and individuals returning to our communities from prisons (returning citizens), in disadvantaged communities that are characterized by high crime, low academic achievement, early parenting, substance abuse, family violence, and deteriorating physical environments by providing community-based-educational, social, human, and economic development services and employment opportunities to enrich the lives of residents in these economically disadvantaged communities, assist in a smooth transition back to our communities from prison, thus reducing recidivism.