Mission

HorizonMinds is a non-profit 501 c(3) organization dedicated to providing Cultural Enrichment and Educational Programs and Services that focus specifically on Character Education, Student's Academic Deficits, and Cultural Enrichment. HorizonMinds encourage people of low income and poverty status to reclaim their glorious past, rekindle their inner spirit, and reconnect with their great legacy.

We focus on the skills and strengths of a child rather than the deficits and problems. Our approach is based on a realistic assessment of every child and family.

We recognize the challenges in our work and the impossibility of changing past experiences. As a child approaches adolescence, the treatment needs to take advantage of the healthy part of their development. It is our philosophy to work with the normal motivational drives of independence and socialization. It is our opportunity to teach transferable skills that lead to improved success at school, on the job, in the community, and in the family, by linking learning to life.


We serve more than just the child. Ours is a holistic approach. This includes working with and supporting the family, teachers, school counselors, coaches and other professionals. We believe individuals grow through successful experiences, the acquisition of skills and accomplishment of goals. By involving all those significant to the child, by Educating, Motivating, Empowering, Inspiring, and Enlightening we will Liberate our children's minds and will greatly enhance the child's ability to succeed!

Phylosophy

Think - Learn - Grow - Connect! We believe in teaching every child the 3C's - care, concern and connection. Create a learning environment that fosters children to be children and allow them to learn and grow in their own unique way. We believe in allowing students that opportunity to find the joy of learning and discover how knowledge can change their world.


We believe in The Ten Virtues:

     •I will control my thoughts

     •I will control my actions

     •I will have devotion of purpose

     •I will have faith in the ability of the teacher to teach the truth

     •I will have faith in my ability to assimilate the truth

     •I will have faith in my ability to wield the truth

     •I will be free from resentment, under the experience of persecution

     •I will be free from resentment under the experience of wrong doing

     •I will cultivate the ability to distinguish right from wrong

     •I will cultivate the ability to tell the real from the unreal



We believe in the (Seven Principles) of Nguzo Saba:


     •Umoja-Unity is to strive for and maintain unity in the family, community, nation, and race.

     •Kujichagulia- Self Determination is to define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves and speaks        for ourselves instead of being defined, named created and spoken for by others.

     •Ujima-Collective Work and Responsibility is to build and maintain our community together. To make         our brothers' and sisters' problems our problems to solve together.

     •Ujamma-Cooperative Economics is to build and maintain our own businesses and profit together from         them.

     •Nia-Purpose is to make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community and to         restore our people to our traditional greatness.

     •Kuumba-Creativity is to always do as much as we can in any way that we can, in oder to leave our                 community more beautiful and beneficial than when we inherited it.

     •Imani-Faith is to believe with all our hearts in our GOD our people, our parents, our teachers, our         leaders and the righteousness and victory of our struggle.