Founder and Chief Executive Officer

<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="id26.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Our Board of Directors"><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="id28.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Staff"><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> <B>A man with a vision, and his vision is his life -- being in service of his fellow man.</B></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=398 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I><B>Founder and Chief Executive Officer</B></I></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div>  <A NAME="founder"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <B><U><IMG SRC="07c87a70.jpg" border=0 width="135" height="167" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></B></div> <div> <B>Mr. Ashley Rozier, II</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>MR. ASHLEY ROZIER, II BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Mr. Ashley Rozier II, (44 years of age), </B><A HREF="id51_statewide_community_planning.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Statewide Community Planning and Organiz"><U><B>Statewide Community Planner/Organizer</B></U></A><B>, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Cape Fear Regional Bureau For Community Action, Inc., the oldest independent professional grass-roots HIV/AIDS/STD and drugs community-based organization in North Carolina, headquartered in Fayetteville, North Carolina, serving seven counties. He has been actively involved in community/street outreach in not only the Cape Fear Region, but statewide for nearly two decades. All these years have been in service related to HIV/AIDS/STD, Drugs, Teen Pregnancy, Crime, Diabetes and other </B><A HREF="id54_health_disparities.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Health Disparities"><U><B>health disparities</B></U></A><B>. He is also the originator of the statewide </B><A HREF="id47_aids_sunday.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Faith Initiative AIDS Sunday"><U><I><B>AIDS Sunday</B></I></U></A><B> concept in North Carolina. This event brings together, statewide, the spiritual leaders of the local communities within their community, for HIV/AIDS awareness on the spiritual level. Mr. Rozier, also, is the pioneer in implementing aggressive non-traditional street outreach during non-traditional hours, including </B><B> <A NAME="bm_1_"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B><B>weekends, in the state with </B><A HREF="id63_hivaids.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="What Is HIV/AIDS"><U><B>HIV/AIDS</B></U></A><B>, other </B><A HREF="id68_std.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="What Are STD (Sexually Transmitted Disea"><U><B>sexually transmitted diseases</B></U></A><B>, drugs, teen pregnancy and crime prevention outreach. He is known for galvanizing and mobilizing the various communities to action for positive change statewide.  Mr. Rozier is also a member of numerous civic and community organizations’ Board of Directors statewide.  Also, he was reappointed for a second time to serve on the </B><A HREF="id95_rozier_appointment.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="NC AIDS Advisory Council"><U><B>North Carolina AIDS Advisory Council to the Governor</B></U></A><B> for 2003 – 2005.</B></div> <div> <B> </B></div> <div> <B>He was the first in North Carolina to collaborate a statewide </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 infrastructures and capacities in effort to help eliminate health disparities among people of color. Also, he continues to educate community–based organizations on how to conduct community/street outreach.   He is an advocate of state policy for those who cannot advocate for themselves.  Mr. Rozier understands our policymakers need to be educated in order for effective policies to be enacted, and with this understanding he seeks to educate our policymakers concerning issues confronting the citizens of North Carolina.  He does all this while furthering various statewide community–based organizations’ knowledge about the significance of HIV/AIDS/STD, </B><A HREF="id70_cocaine.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="What is Cocaine"><U><B>substance abuse</B></U></A><B> and other </B><A HREF="id54_health_disparities.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Health Disparities"><U><B>health disparities</B></U></A><B>.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>His work does not limit itself to the safe zones of the faith community, civic organizations and educational centers – he is out in the community, face to face with the crack/injectable drug user, the homosexual/bisexual </B><A HREF="id46_macho_men_initiative.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Macho Men Initiative"><U><B>down low man</B></U></A><B>, the commercial sex worker </B><A HREF="id42_community_street_outreach_program.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Community / Street Outreach"><U><B>conducting outreach</B></U></A><B> and educating in the crack houses, juke joints, bootlegging houses, gay bars and hangouts and in the correctional centers.  There is no place he will not go to make a difference in the community, no one he will not assist.  He firmly is committed to going to the needy in the community, not remaining safely in the confines of his office.  Mr. Rozier believes we must be doing and not just talking.   </B></div> <div> <B>Mr. Rozier, as a </B><A HREF="id52_advocacy.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Advocacy and Policy Strategic Planning"><U><B>statewide community planner and organizer</B></U></A><B>, has conducted numerous </B><A HREF="id89_parties.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Community Empowerment"><U><B>block parties and rallies</B></U></A><B>, where he has continuously brought together diverse populations at these major events.</B></div> <div> <B>He has had many newspaper articles written about his work in North Carolina. Mr. Rozier has appeared on countless radio and television programs promoting the need for community involvement in eliminating health disparities when it comes to People of Color; such as HIV/AIDS/STD, drugs, teen pregnancy and crime prevention from all levels of the community.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Mr. Rozier has received numerous awards. In 1992 he received the </B><B><U>Outstanding Community Volunteer Service Award</U></B><B> from the Fayetteville Press, and again in that same year from the Fayetteville City Human Relations Commission he received the </B><B><U>Outstanding Community Service Award</U></B><B>; in 1994 he received the </B><B><U>Humanitarian Award</U></B><B> from the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority; also, in 1994 he received the </B><B><U>Most Outstanding In Community Involvement Award</U></B><B> from the North Carolina Human Relations Commission; in 1995, WRAL-TV5 awarded him the </B><B><U>Black History Legacy Award</U></B><B>; the following year, 1996, Mr. Rozier was the recipient of the North Carolina Governor’s highest civilian award, </B><B><U>The Order of the Long Leaf Pine</U></B><B>; in 1999, he received the </B><B><U>Lifetime Achievement Award</U></B><B> from the North Carolina HIV/STD Prevention and Care Branch; Mr. Rozier received the </B><B><U>Citizen of the Year Award</U></B><B> for 2000 from the NAACP, and the Cumberland Regional Improvement Corporation – Minority Enterprise Development </B><B><U>Community Advocacy of the Year Award</U></B><B>; and in 2001 he received the </B><B><U>North Carolina HIV/STD Prevention and Care Branch HIV/AIDS Statewide Advocacy Award</U></B><B>; the</B><B><U> Statewide Community–Based Mentoring Award</U></B><B> from a coalition of North Carolina minority community–based organizations; and this December 11, 2002, Mr. Rozier received the </B><B><U>Marty L. Prairie Award</U></B><B> in recognition of distinguished, bold and innovative community service in fight against HIV/AIDS.  This was only the second time this award has been presented in the State of North Carolina.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>We can say much, but words alone do not do him justice. Look around you and see the lives he has affected and saved collectively with other community–based organizations, faith institutions, entrepreneurships, academic institutions, and local, state and national government agencies from the ravages of health disparities confronting People of Color. The living is his testimony of success, the dead a reminder that more needs to be done.</B></div> <div> <I><B> <embed src="HTMLobj-546/Little_Things.wav" autostart="true" loop="true" hidden="true">  </B></I></div> </td> </tr></table></body>