About Us

OUR MISSION

Serving as a Community Resource Center, Mission Empower provides advocacy, education, and the promotion of empowerment, assisting families and their children with disabilities to enable their children to use their gifts and talents to reach their potential and become productive members of our community.

OUR VISION

Mission Empower is seen as a catalyst in supporting families and organizations to successfully access the resources that will empower families and their children, so that all children and youth with disabilities utilize their talents to reach their potential and become productive members of the community.

Our Story

Mission Empower, founded as Educational Advocacy for the Inclusion of Youth (EAIY), was formed to address the dire need to integrate youth with disabilities into their communities and society. Prior to the inception of Mission Empower, there were no other groups or agencies exclusively empowering, educating, or advocating for families and youth with disabilities in Erie County. Advocates and parents of children with disabilities rallied around this common vision to create this organization. In December of 2007, EAIY was incorporated as a non-profit in Pennsylvania and received 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status in June of 2008. In August of 2009, EAIY changed its name to Mission Empower, and in October 2012, Mission Empower was designated as a Community Parent Resource Center by the US Department of Education. The organization is one of 104 Community Parent Resource Centers across the US.

Mission Empower strives to integrate the current generation of all youth with disabilities to be fully included, productive, and participatory citizens of their community through education, advocacy, and empowerment. Mission Empower has developed a multi-pronged approach for promoting empowerment: educational advocacy, parent engagement, and community education programs.

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