At-Risk Youth Offered Gateway to National Prominence

CTRIBAT and SEA~TV have formed a partnership to use video production and computer graphics to enhance the effectiveness of CTRIBAT programs for at-risk youth and to expand them by publishing them on DVD and the internet. SEA~TV will be the exclusive video and computer graphic arm of CTRIBAT.

(PRWEB) November 10, 2006 -- CTRIBAT and SEA~TV have formed a partnership to use video production and computer graphics to enhance the effectiveness of CTRIBAT programs for at-risk youth and to expand them by publishing them on DVD and the internet. SEA~TV will be the exclusive video and computer graphic arm of CTRIBAT, covering all major CTRIBAT events and documenting them on video. The footage obtained will be used to create public service announcements as well as promotions for fund raising and future events for CTRIBAT. They will also serve as instructional and training presentations.

Chip Croft, owner of SEA~TV, met Shafiq Abdussabur, the founder of CTRIBAT, while working on a SEA~TV documentary about the murders of Jajuana Cole and Justus Suggs this summer. "Early on in our research we found that Shafiq's organization had the most measurably and effective program in the city for helping at-risk youth," said Croft. "We also noticed how the children in the Dixwell neighborhood were fascinated by our camera and the production activities. As a result, we also decided to work with Shafiq in developing an out-of-school video education program for the youth in the area."

CTRIBAT and SEA~TV are now pursuing funds for the program and developing the curricula. "This will be a strong creative magnet for at-risk children and teens," says Abdussabur. "It will provide at-risk youth a safe haven and that can literally save many lives. They will gain self-confidence and self-respect and be motivated to go on to college or pursue jobs in other trade oriented careers. For very talented youth it will serve as a gateway to national prominence that might have gone forever closed."

SEA~TV has been producing documentaries and instructional videos for over twenty years and has won three film festival awards in the past two years. Chip Croft is also a professor in the Communications Department at Southern Connecticut State University, teaching video production, script writing and computer graphics.
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Shafiq Abdussabur is a Community Patrol Officer with the New Haven Police Department. He founded CTRIBAT Youth Development in 2003 on the heels of the closing of the historical African American Community Center known as the Dixwell Q-House. CTRIBAT Youth Development services approximately 60 young males ages 9 years old to 17 years old. It offers them effective programs such as its trademark Interactive Life Skill Workshops and its hallmark CTRIBAT Leadership Retreats.
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CTRIBAT was formed on the premise of being a solution to Urban Plight, Urban Blight, and the Urban Fight. Moreover, CTRIBAT established part and principal to approach this condition by addressing the root causes and proving a cure that would serve as a measuring tool for Urban Success as it pertained to young people ages 9 years of age to 17 years of age.

Over the last three years CTRIBAT has launched a series of social development projects throughout the City which have served as outreach, training, awareness, an educational opportunities to over 3,000 individuals with in the city of New Haven.

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