Your Time For Creative Empowerment, Inc.
Arts * Fashion * Culture as solutions for 21st Century Life Challenges and Pitfalls
Founder/CEO Madona Cole-Lacy, M.A Ed.
Program Director: James A. Lacy, LCSW
www.yourtime4liny.org * [email protected]
(516) 783-9178
Our Philosophy
Your Time For Creative Empowerment, Inc. is our contribution towards a much needed solution
to the challenges of life and pitfalls of the 21st century.
* We believe that the task at hand calls for solutions that are not ordinarily thought of as viable
and effective by others outside the area of the arts.
* Artists are forever taking on challenges as they create something out of nothing. They seize
upon opportunities to create the tangible and aesthetic which, even though not preconceived,
takes its rightful place in this world.
* We neither entertain nor tolerate the term 'obstacle' in our lexicon of life.
* We see opportunities we can build from, not obstacles that are meant to keep us down.
* We believe in and value the idea of working collaboratively with teaching artists and other
professionals and experts to provide arts-centered solutions to life's problems.
* We believe that assisting youth and parents in practicing creative ways of identifying,
developing and creating self-help solutions to relevant issues that affect them,
will result in improvement in the areas of personal development, multicultural and social
acceptance/tolerance.
* We are excited to work with all people who can benefit from our programs; regardless of race,
color, creed or socioeconomic status.
* We strongly believe that challenges do not discriminate, and as such, the resulting problems
and difficulties do not discriminate when it comes to whose doorstep on which to land! When we
fail to join forces and address issues that plague mankind, society and humanity ends up
suffering a deterioration of its social, economic and moral structure.
www.yourtimeforcreativeempowerment.org
www.yourtime4liny.org
(516) 783-9178