CREST

Community Relations Executive Seminar Training (CREST) Racial Healing Community Conference

On February 25, 2011, the FBI Miami Citizens Academy Alumni Association, in partnership with the Haitian Resource Development Foundation, and the FBI-Miami Division hosted a “Racial Healing” CREST (Community Relations Executive Seminar Training) breakfast program for community leaders from the African-American and Caribbean communities. 

Thirty-five prominent South Florida community leaders, Mr. John Gilles, Special Agent in Charge for the FBI-Miami Division, and select South Florida FBI Miami Citizens Academy Alumni Association members came together to dialogue about issues concerning the African American and Caribbean-American communities. The result of this meeting was strengthening ties and relations between African American and Caribbean-American youth.  The unanimous outcome of the Racial Healing CREST program was to host a “Youth Town Hall”, which would bring together 25-75 African American and Caribbean American teens (ages 15-19), to engage in genuine and honest communication about cultural misperceptions, similarities, unity, and healing, as well as achieving personal and educational goals, and crime prevention.

Consequently, the Town Hall, entitled 2011 Relationship Achievement Prevention (RAP) Youth Town Hall, was presented on Saturday, June 18, 2011 (10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.) and was hosted at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

The FBI Miami CAAA CREST Racial Healing and RAP Youth Town Hall was funded by a grant from the Kellogg Foundation, which was awarded to the FBI National Citizens’ Academy Alumni Association, and the Haitian Resource Development Foundation.

   "Africian and Caribbean American Community Leaders   Come Together To Discuss Culural Relationships."