Mission

The Community Leadership Academy & Emergency Response Project (CLAER) helps people traumatized by violence move beyond victimization to healing. From victimization to action!

CLAER is a project that addresses issues of economic, political, and social disparity. Employing a unique model merging public policy development, community capacity building, and direct services, CLAER engages and empowers low-income residents and neighborhoods to shape and define a greater voice in public policy, upward mobility, and general quality-of-life issues.


Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.

~ Booker T. Washington