Annually our city comes together to celebrate what has come to be known as Peace Week. This allows communities to come together to celebrate a culture of peace by performing activities and encourage positive actions for peaceful coexistence. It equally allows the community an opportunity to honor the life of Dr. Mathin Luther King Jr. […]
Measuring the social impact of our Human Justice and Healing programs is important for us to evaluate effectiveness and highlight how positive change continue to infiltrate more communities that we serve and improve more lives. A track record of success like ours also help to ensure resources committed have the right social impact and encourage […]
Message from Executive Director K. Bain Americans mourn once again as we watch the horrific videos of five police officers brutalizes Tyre Nichols, a 29 years old black man to death in Memphis. The bestiality of this Killing is condemnable, inhuman and a violation of the sanctity of human life. We at Community Capacity Development […]
Our Programs and activities continue to impact positively in significantly reducing violent crimes in all of our primary precinct areas that we serve-69th, 70th and 114th precincts. We have been quite innovative and unique in our approach to Community violence prevention. We understand that the metrics for the success of violence intervention programs is not […]
The Safe Summer 2022 was a huge success base off of the remarkable impact of the previous year activities. Safe Summer is a multi-city, community led public safety initiative developed by CCD to address gun violence before it happens. Working with all Human Justice partners, local violence prevention organizations, elected officials and community leaders, our […]
The popular American rapper and song writer, Cardi B is among other notable celebrities that extends partnership collaboration with CCD in 2022. The celebrity is highly motivated to partner with CCD to explore the opportunity to appraise the Youth Justice Network Music studio program, a peaceful lyrical message recorded over a drill inspired music production. […]
Early in the year, in celebration of black excellence, we organized our 1st Annual Human Justice Gala by bringing together Black and Brown folks, community leaders, elected officials and corporate supporters to a colorful night of glitz and glamour. It was an opportunity for acknowledgment to celebrate and highlight the achievements of leaders who continually […]
The year 2022 at CCD has been a very eventful one full of progress and remarkable achievements. We started the year in February with a call from the President of United States requesting to meet with our Executive Director, K. Bain and the CCD team in our New York office. The President visited our program […]
Ebony Young The work that we do specializes in results and testimonials continue to pour in from individuals and the community we serve. Responding to Mayor Adams Blueprint to End Gun violence, we continue to engage local leadership, community members and critical stakeholders by organizing Monthly Community Stakeholders meeting and the feedback from this dialogue […]
Her specialties are in synergy with our Human Justice and Healing framework that encompasses trauma informed care, youth violence prevention and cultural competency. As a courageous community advocate, Rhodes has managed Brand BUILD workforce development programs, geared towards teaching at-risk youth how to run their own business, while successfully encouraging them to pursue higher education. […]