The James Worthy Empowerment Center has an explicit purpose: to help “At-Risk” Youth, Military Veterans, and their Communities build an “Earned Pathway to Success”.
Each of its support strategies, activities and programs are intended to help produce this outcome and all of its service delivery strategies are designed to created value-added alliances with community support and outreach entities that have the synergies and capabilities that can be interwoven into a program to further the upward mobility of our target groups.
The empowerment center, located in the Highland Community of Gastonia, North Carolina will interweave the community support capabilities of the James Worthy Foundation and Gaston Community Action (GCA) into a value-added and strategic alliance. Under this alliance, the GCA will continue its work with Head Start, Highland Charter Public School, Community Service Block Grant and the weatherization program.
In 2010, Gaston Community Action helped 460 children through Head Start, 86 families through the Community Service Block Grant, 112 children with the Highland Charter School and 400 households with weatherization.