My Brother's and Sister's Keeper 2.71

The City of Albany accepted President Obama's 2014 challenge. On February 27th, 2014, President Obama launched the My Brother‘s Keeper Initiative ― with the belief that by focusing on critical challenges, risk factors, and opportunities for young boys and young men of color at key life stages, we can improve their long-term outcomes and ability to contribute to society.
The City of Albany expanded the challenge to include young girls and young women recognizing; they too need to improve their long-term outcomes and ability to contribute to society.
Mayor Kathy Sheehan's administration is committed to coordinating the work and investments of its departments and community partners toward creating integrated strategies in the City‘s most diverse and low-income neighborhoods, which struggle with issues of education, employment, poverty, crime, and lack of community investment.
She and all those connected to My Brother's and Sister's Keeper (MBSK) wholeheartedly believe that the MBSK Initiative goals we have created will undoubtedly create an opportunity for all of our young people to have the tools and opportunities to succeed. We intend to be transformational in our approach to guiding our youth to success.