About CTRIBAT Leadership Retreat 2008
"Time for Change"
CTRIBAT or Ultimate retreat, is an opportunity for one to get away from the daily fast pace routines and go to a more naturalistic environment to reflect. In addition, CTRIBAT seeks to enhance ones character as well as spirit. CTRIBAT also incorporates a physical component into its entire program to challenge ones overall development. Thus, CTRIBAT could best be described as a program that seeks to develop aspects of Mind-Body-Spirit.
Program Objectives: CTRIBAT Leadership Retreat 2008 “Time for Change”
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Development of Coping skills unique to surviving in an Urban City
•Building Self Respect and Self Worth
•Increasing Exposure to occupational skills
•Enhancement of verbal and literal communication skills
•Goal setting and Goal planning and achievement
•Health education-hygiene, proper diet and exercise,
•Modeling appropriate behaviors and conduct in various settings
•Character Shaping and being socially autonomous
•Development of Global Thinking through travel and cultural exposure
Age requirement:
Must be at least 9 yrs. of age to 13 years of age
Medical Limitations:
All participants must be in good physical condition and able to function independently. Many of the activities will not be handicap accessible.
Cost:
Cost per student is estimated to be of $30 parent co-pay.
Date:
Retreat will be four days/three nights session from August 13 - 16, 2008
Location:
Manditory Orientation:
All students who will be attending retreat must attend a manditiry registration/orienttion workshop 10am-12pm on Saturday August 9, 2008.
Workshop will be held at:
CTRIBAT Office located at 230 Ashmun Street, New Haven, CT 06511
Requirements to Attend:
-All participants must sign waiver form.
-All participants under 18 years of age must have a parent or guardians signature approval to attend, in addition to waiver.
-All participants must have proper clothing and supplies.
-All participants must have registered prior to date.
-All participants must attend orientation.
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About the Founder/Executive Director:
Shafiq R.F. Abdussabur is the Founder and Director of CTRIBAT (Children & Teens-Retreat) Institute For Social Development, which in the summer of 2006 reduced gun violence by 400% in the Dixwell Avenue area of New Haven, Connecticut. He has been working with Inner City Youth since 1985. He has four children. Shafiq is an active law enforcement officer in the State of Connecticut with over 12 year of Community Base Police Training and experience. In January of 2007, he was appointed Coordinator of the City of New Haven Street Outreach Workers Program by City of New Haven Mayor John DeStefano Jr.
He is 41 years old and is a native of New Haven, Connecticut having grown up in various sections of the Inner City. At age 18 he received several college scholarships and attended West Georgia University in Carrollton, Georgia where he lived for approximately six years. He has traveled throughout the Southern States and the Gulf Coast Region. Other travels have included Ontario Canada, Chicago, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, New York, New Jersey, Baltimore, Washington D.C., New Orleans, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, and several New England States.
Educational History:
Saint Aedans Elementary School
Graduated Notre Dame High School West Haven
West Georgia College 1985-1989
New Haven Police Academy 1996
Currently at Charter Oaks Sate College (Public Safety Administration) 2007
Youth Involvement:
Substitute Teacher in New Haven Public Schools 1985-1990
Art Director, Children’s Creative Arts Center, New Haven, CT. 1991-1993
Behavioral Technician, Area Cooperative Services, Hamden, CT 1991-1994
Executive Director, As We Grow Daycare, New Haven, CT. 1994-1996
Other Youth Involvement:
Certification Yale Child Study Fellowship Program
Certification as Instructor Guns is Not Toys Program
TREE Institute-Community Base Police Training
Mentor Certification in New Haven Mentoring Program
Certification as an Instructor for the Eddie Eagle GunSafe Program
Organizational Involvement:
1986 Member of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc.
1989 Co-Founder and Executive Director of BOLDMINDS Cultural Art Accents
2000 Public Relation Director for New Haven Mentoring Program Inc.
2000 Conservation Firearm Safety Chief Instructor for Connecticut DEP
2002 Founder and Executive Director CTRIBAT Youth Development Program
2002 Founder/Instructor of 2ADFENSE Firearm Safety and Consulting Agency
2005 Founder Member and President 2004-2008 of New Haven Guardians Inc.
2007 Board of Director Creative Arts Workshop-CAW
2007 Co-Founder and Executive Director Omar Ibin Said Leadership Academy
2008 National Delegate New Haven Guardians
Other Certifications:
Connecticut POST Certified Police Officer
National Rifle Association Pistol Instructor
National Rifle Association Personal Protection Instructor
National Rifle Association Chief Range Safety Officer Instructor
Member of International Hunter Education Association
National Rifle Association Certified Law Enforcement Firearm Instructor
Awards:
2006 Commendation New Haven Police Department
2006 Citation City of New Haven Board of Alderman
2006 Community Service Award -Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity
2006 Man of the Year- New Haven Independent
2007 Law Enforcement Award New Haven Public Library
2007 Community Service Award
2007 Man of the Year- Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity
2008 Man of the Year-National Association of Negro Business & Professional Women’s Club, Inc.
2008 All American City Award, Tampa Fl (2007)
2008Proclamation of the City of New Haven, CT
2008 People's Victory Award
2008 Proclamation of the City of Haftford, CT
More Information about affiliate owned/operated programs:
WWW.WhyOurChildrenCarryGuns.com
WWW.BOLDMINDS.ORG
WWW.NEWHAVENGUARDIANS.NET
WWW.CTUrbanThinkTank.org
WWW.UseA6.com
