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ABOUT US
"BY OUR OWN HANDS," is a Community Development, an Advocacy, Education, Prevention & Nurturing Group of, educators, prevention and lay persons, to empower America’s Youth, through families and education. The group’s focus is on housing and issues having negative effect on our young children, teens and young adults, chiefly A
ABOUT US
"BY OUR OWN HANDS," is a Community Development, an Advocacy, Education, Prevention & Nurturing Group of, educators, prevention and lay persons, to empower America’s Youth, through families and education. The group’s focus is on housing and issues having negative effect on our young children, teens and young adults, chiefly Americans of African ancestral heritage, (non-immigrant parentage). We are a public charity, 501c3 Non Profit Corporation, a self help initiative to supplant an inglorious lot, with ingenious strides, having euthenics as its premise. "By Our Own Hands," will endeavor to improve upon what may be considered morally, intellectually and culturally balanced uplifts, that will involve looking at human conditions, habits and social constructs which leads to degradation and penury, among the masses.
MISSION STATEMENT
The mission of BY OUR OWN HANDS “The Best We Can,” is to promote excellence as it relates to civic mindedness within an open community, to listen, explore and create paradigm shifts in contemporary conceptualized frameworks less grounded in pragmatic value, logic and research which targets most importantly, “Our Children.” Many existing frameworks have proven inadequate in addressing what is extremely needed among our teens, young children and young adults, in particular where one public school system, (Memphis City Schools,) admitted failures, surrendered their charter and closed their doors. Our mission is to plant organic gardens of avant-garde artists, thinkers, and questioners, watered with “We Can,” energized by families and collective wisdom, to live in the NOW, balanced with man and environment, beyond extraordinary achievement to unparalleled accomplishments. We take this to be needed and practical to be accomplished, given a full account of what has and must be done in; health / wellness, economics, education, innovations, law and order, to reverse the negative effects on our populace in these areas. Our mission will always be; to demonstrate the capacity to act decent, noble, honorably and with respect for all things and people.
ABOUT US:
Given the mission of "BY OUR OWN HANDS," the United States Constitution, its Bill of Rights, Statutes and Codes, protects and allows us, to protest anything posing mental or physical threats of aggressive destructive influences, no matter how small or subtle, against our children’s well-being and that of any people in responsible citizenship in these United States of America. We are not believers in the dogmatism of calling ourselves Blacks, Minorities, African Americans, Colored, Negros, People of Color, nor, will we accept any negative labels or images. We do not refer to our children as “kids,” being “at risk,” having “low self-esteem,” or “low income kids.” Such labels may be applied nefariously, therefore, it is important for us to consider the broader implications before making those assertions. We are not a “Race” of people, but “Humans,” living among the same. We are Americans, first, of African Ancestry. (3A) This by no means is an attempt to separate, but instead, a call to integrate under the greatness of the United States of America. However, we must not lose the path to that greatness; guaranteed rights under the Constitution, and not having those rights usurped, given over to a collective egoic, and or issued upon the discretion of that collective.
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PURPOSE:
To seek out, identify correct information, innovations and apply. To redefine our practice, policies and realities, that have led us into pits of ignorance. Outline principles of a comprehensive plan / curriculum, focusing on essentials for leadership, uplift, health and wellness.
PURPOSE:
PURPOSE:
To seek out, identify correct information, innovations and apply. To redefine our practice, policies and realities, that have led us into pits of ignorance. Outline principles of a comprehensive plan / curriculum, focusing on essentials for leadership, uplift, health and wellness.
PURPOSE:
To; overcome “learned helplessness;” which imposes the lowest social and economic status on a people, bounding one to a permanent impoverished underclass. To; dissuade self destructive behavior and deviant contributories in all aspects. To; gain measurements of positive achievements in human uplift, by use of correct knowledge in human habits and other criteria that exemplifies positive changes in human conditions over time. To; invest in people, to build capabilities.
ENVISAGE
The masses of Americans of African ancestral heritage (non-immigrant parentage) in the United States, are not showing or have come to understand the sense of urgency relative to the purpose and mission of “By Our Own Hands,” they have become numb to these concerns, failing to see themselves having greater future possibilities. We must move into acts of self preservation, the constant justification for not acting or staying the course, no longer suffices. The United States Government should declare our populace, endangered humans in crises, with special protections against detrimental forces, beyond our control. We will speak in favor of a campaign initiative, to “Boycott” every “Penal Correctional Facility,” in the United States, by reorienting and empowering our children.We will advocate for what may be considered “just” conduct, and the equal dignity of all people. This,” We Owe,” to our children.
PURPOSE:
Phase One; Mostly raising money, $300,000, for land acquisition and grading, for our School; THE HOME EDUCATION INSTITUTE of PHYSICS, MATH & PHILOSOPHY, to include a RIGHTS OF PASSAGE CENTER FOR BOYS and assembling a leadership team alongside our executive director. To; recruit one Million children, youth and young adults, as members of the By Our Own Hands Organization, nationally, from families that seek diverse perspectives and a respect for others. We are public supported and the public will be the stakeholders to whom we shall be accountable. We ask every American of African ancestral heritage (non-immigrant parentage) in the United States, to give $5.00 a year to sustain and help grow this initiative over the next 50 years. To others, Please consider including us in your charitable giving.
MOTTO:
“Production over Destruction"
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MichaelRay Adams – Founder & Chief Executive Officer - 2016
Adams, has been invited to Washington on three different occasions to participate in projects, in the interest of the public, for American's Youth, Young Children and Young Adults.
Adams is an Urban Youth Initiative Consultant, who contends America's infrastructure, "our child
MichaelRay Adams – Founder & Chief Executive Officer - 2016
Adams, has been invited to Washington on three different occasions to participate in projects, in the interest of the public, for American's Youth, Young Children and Young Adults.
Adams is an Urban Youth Initiative Consultant, who contends America's infrastructure, "our children, a great many are experiencing the calamitous impact, powerful and traumatic effects of drugs & alcohol abuse, gang violence, mis-education and the break down of families. This comes in part, inadvertent and with a lack of sentinels. These children, youth and young adults are being recast into roles of misery, masquerading as merriment, by those controlling the entertainment habits of the populace, the source of a contagious acute inanition, from which far too many suffers."
Adams was part of Dr. Irving P. McPhail's administration, then president of Lemoyne Owen College. Dr. McPhail founded the College's Office of Community OutReach Services, and states; "I appointed Michael Adams as the college's Project Director for the African American Male Role Models Project...and the Preschool Intervention Program. Michael's leadership and organizational skills as Project Director were exemplary, and the programs under his direction earned national attention. President George Bush named the comprehensive community outreach efforts of Lemoyne-Owen College, the"246"th Daily Point of Light on September 12, 1990. The Pre-School Intervention Program, was high-lighted in the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Alumni-Bulletin Vol. XXXV, No. 1, Fall 1990."
As part of a nationwide alcohol and other drug use prevention strategy, the federal government's Office for Substance Abuse Prevention launched a multimedia Urban Youth Public Education Campaign, to prevent alcohol and other drug use by 9 to 13-year-old African Americans, living in high-risk environments. The campaign took place in the 12 largest African American media markets in the country, Adams coordinated the campaign in the Memphis market.
Adams was invited by the Department of The Army, office of the Assistant Secretary Washington, to participate in a workshop" The African-American Male in Crisis" held August 25-28 1991.
Adams was again invited to D.C. for a drug prevention and arts forum, where 50 artists and substance abuse-prevention specialist participated in "Imagine the Difference, Building Artistic Partner-ship to Save Our Children." All were selected for their commitment to substance abuse prevention.
Adams acted as Project Manager for the National Marrow Donor Program's Collegiate Project, in health promotion. A national model was developed from Adams work with 20 colleges and universities in four states, with this project.
" I call this part of a rebuilding process, of a civilization that must be replaced. I am today, like others, a product of what my ancestors called into being. I heard the call, I felt the vibrations, cried, dried my eyes, and I was willing to come." - MRA