To empower youth and adults as agents of positive individual, institutional, and social change.

The Center for Teen Empowerment, Inc. (TE) inspires young people, and the adults who work with them, to think deeply about the most difficult social problems in their schools and communities, and gives them the tools they need to work with others in creating significant positive change. At TE's youth organizing sites, youth and adult staff bring authentic youth voice into the dialogue about improving their schools and communities, mobilize the energy of urban youth to create meaningful change, and facilitate mutually respectful relationships between youth and adults.