Village-Connect
​Village-Connect is an Alameda County nonprofit serving the Bay Area since 2009. We deliver culturally grounded coaching and leadership programs for families and students through our WE-Empower Family Ecosystem, rooted in Culture-Based Transformative Coaching® (CBTC) and sustained by the WE-Empower Family Alumni Association (WEFAA).
The WE-Empower Family Ecosystem
The WE-Empower Family Ecosystem moves families through two interconnected tracks: a household track and a school-based track that reinforce each other and provide continuous support.
Household Track: Families begin with the 10-week WE-Empower Family coaching intensive, the entry point where caregivers and children build resilience, identity, and stronger bonds together. After graduation, children ages 5-10 continue in the SIMBA/NALA Playgroups, a culturally rooted space that nurtures literacy, self-expression, and peer relationships.
School-Based Track: Students are supported through WE-Empower K-12, which provides academic coaching and cultural development across grade levels. This track promotes pride in cultural identity, strengthens academic performance, and addresses behavioral concerns, creating a bridge between home and school success.
Both tracks flow into the WE-Empower Family Alumni Association (WEFAA), the backbone of the ecosystem. Alumni remain continuously engaged through monthly coaching, peer mentoring, and leadership roles, with access to licensed mental health support. From this foundation, alumni may advance into Return to Black Wall Street (RBWS), an eight-week cooperative economics pathway that transforms resilience into collective ownership and shared wealth.
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​This ecosystem ensures that transformation is not a one-time event, but a lifelong journey from healing to resilience, leadership, and legacy, sustained across households, schools, and communities.
Coming Up at Village-Connect
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Our Partners
We collaborate with various organizations, school districts, and companies to help achieve our goal of long-term sustainable transformative change of individuals and families.
Creating transformative change for individuals, groups, and families
