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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=82 BGCOLOR="#006699" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="05bfd523.jpg"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B>Cape Fear Regional Bureau For Community Action, Inc.</B></FONT><B>     |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Cape Fear Regional Bureau For Community "><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Cape Fear Regional Bureau For Community "><U><B><IMG SRC="04e0e0e0.png" border=0 width="14" height="14" ALT="up" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  </B><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="14" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" WIDTH="14"><B>    </B><A HREF="id17.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Calendar"><U><B><IMG SRC="04d0e0e0.png" border=0 width="14" height="14" ALT="previous" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A><B>  </B><A HREF="id26.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Our Board of Directors"><U><B><IMG SRC="04f0e0e0.png" border=0 width="14" height="14" ALT="next" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.capefearregionalbureauforcommunityactioninc.org/mf.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.capefearregionalbureauforcomm"><U><B>Click Here For Site Map</B></U></A></div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFCC66" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="23fd2993.jpg"> <div> <IMG SRC="06ac6870.jpg" border=0 width="198" height="135" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=398 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><I><B>About Us</B></I></FONT> <A NAME="about_us_1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A> <embed src="HTMLobj-518/Yesterday.wav" autostart="true" loop="true" hidden="true">  </div> <div> <B>The Cape Fear Regional Bureau For Community Action, Inc. was organized in 1989 by Mr. Ashley Rozier, II, with the support of several concerned Cumberland County natives.  Since then, the Bureau has provided services concerning HIV/AIDS/STD, Drugs, Teen Pregnancy, Crime, Diabetes and other Health Disparities. The Bureau serves seven (7) counties in the Cape Fear Region in North Carolina. Additionally, the Bureau supports community awareness events open to diverse segments of the populations.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>The mission of the agency is to provide education for prevention on </B><A HREF="id63_hivaids.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="What Is HIV/AIDS"><U><B>HIV/AIDS</B></U></A><B>, </B><A HREF="id68_std.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="What Are STD (Sexually Transmitted Disea"><U><B>sexually transmitted diseases</B></U></A><B>, </B><A HREF="id70_cocaine.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="What is Cocaine"><U><B>substance abuse</B></U></A><B>, teen pregnancy, crime and </B><A HREF="id54_health_disparities.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Health Disparities"><U><B>health disparities</B></U></A><B>.  It also has a </B><A HREF="id48_mentoring_program.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Mentoring Program"><U><B>mentoring program</B></U></A><B>, simultaneously, providing technical assistance to community–based organizations in building their infra structures and capacities in effort to help eliminate</B><A HREF="id54_health_disparities.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Health Disparities"><U><B> health disparities</B></U></A><B> among people of color.  The Bureau advocates state policy for those who cannot </B><A HREF="id52_advocacy.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Advocacy and Policy Strategic Planning"><U><B>advocate</B></U></A><B> for themselves.   It understand our policy makers need to be </B><A HREF="id89_community_empowerment.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Community Empowerment"><U><B>educated</B></U></A><B> in order for effective policies to be enacted, and with this understanding seeks to educate our policymakers concerning issues confronting the citizens of North Carolina. Moreover, the Bureau has been a pioneer organization in that it has built and maintained an impressive one-on-one outreach program in low-income, drug-infested, and impoverished communities.  Promoting self-esteem, character-building and </B><A HREF="id89_community_empowerment.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Community Empowerment"><U><B>empowerment</B></U></A><B>, the Bureau uplifts those burdened by the inequalities of life.  The Bureau continues to maintain a professional grassroots perspective by providing non-tradition services and hours to the citizens of the Cape Fear Region.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Also, the Bureau established the first ever </B><A HREF="id47_faith_initiative.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Faith Initiative AIDS Sunday"><U><B>AIDS Sunday Observance Program</B></U></A><B> which was designed to create a greater awareness and tolerance for those persons affected by HIV/AIDS/STD, Substance Abuse, Teen Pregnancy, Incarceration and Homelessness.  This was the first time in North Carolina that statewide spiritual leaders of the local communities, entrepreneurships, academic institutions, local state and national leaders and government agencies came together to address the ravages of health disparities, such as HIV/AIDS, confronting the citizens of North Carolina. The Bureau helps others to show compassion and understanding to those who may be stricken with these issues by allowing others to learn of the causes and effects they have upon the effected and the community at large.  The suffering are assisted by the community more readily during their times of need when the walls of indifference and miscommunication are broken down.  The Bureau successfully relays the message of these being a communal problems deserve everyone's attention by involving the faith community and a hose of statewide speakers and local dignitaries.  This year the State celebrated its </B><A HREF="id47_aids_sunday.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Faith Initiative AIDS Sunday"><U><B>T</B></U></A><A HREF="id47_aids_sunday.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Faith Initiative AIDS Sunday"><U><B>welfth Annual Statewide AIDS Sunday Event</B></U></A><B>.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>The Bureau has a main nontraditional main office at 110 ½ Gillespie Street, Fayetteville, North Carolina and satellite office at 420 Old Wilmington Road in Fayetteville, North Carolina, where individuals who would not normally take the </B><A HREF="id44_hiv_antibody_testing.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="HIV Antibody Testing"><U><B>HIV Antibody Test</B></U></A><B> and </B><A HREF="id45_syphilis_testing.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Syphilis Testing"><U><B>Syphilis Test</B></U></A><B> are tested during nontraditional hours and weekends.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>The Bureau continues to provide </B><A HREF="id48_mentoring_program.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Mentoring Program"><U><B>mentoring</B></U></A><B> to other agencies in building their infrastructure and capacity building.  This technical assistance has been provided unconditionally and most unselfishly by the Bureau.  Some of the agencies the Bureau provides this service to are: NIA Community Action Center of High Point, North Carolina; Northeastern Center for Human Development in Lewiston, Bertie County, North Carolina; St. Paul Education Center, Fayetteville, North Carolina; and Lisa House of Care, Inc., Fayetteville, North Carolina.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>The Cape Fear Regional Bureau For Community Action, Inc. is committed to providing a center where the homeless and those in need may come for nontraditional services and having their needs met.  Without this service these individuals would be without service and a voice to address their concerns.  It is the belief of the Bureau that agencies must be out in the community, confronting the challenges face to face, in the crack houses, juke joints, bootlegging houses, gay bars and hangouts and in the correctional centers – not safely secured behind a desk in an office talking about the problems – but doing something about the. The Bureau is the voice of the people to the people.  May we all hear the cries and meet the need, unitedly.</B></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>