We are here to give children the support they need in order to shape them into leaders of the future.
Amber Govan
Tamika Newborn
I have spent the last 20 years working in the healthcare field at UAMS. I have a bachelor's degree in criminal justice and am currently pursuing a master's degree. In addition, I work as an afterschool specialist for Carter's Crew. I like working with our youth because I know I can make a difference. With our group of kids, there is never a dull moment, and I am so excited to watch them learn and grow.
Walter Sims
After School Program Specialist at Carter's Crew. Minister and Inspirational/Motivational Speaker. Founder of Sims Strategic Mentoring Program. Volunteer in Little Rock Public Schools. Certified Counselor in Modern Applied Psychology. Certified in First Aid Mental Health. Self- Defense Instructor and Youth Advocate.
Dr. Cheryl D. Jackson-Golden
Dr. Jackson-Golden's initial professional employer was the Southern Good Faith Fund, Pine Bluff, AR. There she worked as the Program Coordinator of Workforce Development Program for Low-income and Welfare Recipients. It was at Good Faith Fund where Cheryl developed her passion to work families, women and women issues. This helped influence her decision to obtain her Master Degree from UAPB in Addiction Studies. After receiving her Master's Degree (she is currently an Assistant Professor in the Addiction Studies at UAPB), Cheryl began working at Davis Life Care Center as a Social Worker. Later she moved into the Director of Education for the facility. Presently, Former Department Chair for Arkansas Baptist College, Division of Social and Behavioral Sciences in Little Rock, AR.
She is the CEO of Cre8ting Changes Community Prevention & Behavioral Health & Consulting Services providing assistance with: educational programming, prevention training and technical assistance, community needs assessment, program design, development and evaluation. Dr. Cheryl has been a presenter for international, national, state, and local professional conferences and workshops, President of Kiwanis of Greater Bryant, Committee member of Single Parent Scholarship of Pulaski county, founder of the Arkansas Birthing Project-Sister Friends for Saline County, and has published two educational works. Her doctorate is in Public Service Leadership Human Services from Capella University.
Dr. Cheryl is most passionate about the sustainability of black family infrastructure. Her future goals are to continuing writing and to start a program working with a specific population of women and children that have success barriers who are in need of assistance and direction.
Shawn Blasczczyk
Shawn is a graduate of Arkansas State University with a bachelor's degree in psychology with an emphasis in early childhood education. She is a results driven professional with expertise in career readiness, case management, Social Security administration policy and procedures, vocational rehabilitation services and project management. Shawn currently serves as the director of career readiness for Carter’s Crew and has a passion working with youth as they are the future leaders of our nation.
Brother Al
On June 19, 1990 at 19 years old, I was sentenced to 42 months in federal prison and on November 9,1994, at 23 years old I was sentenced to life in prison for a gang related murder in 1994. At the beginning of the banging in Little Rock! I was sent to The Maximum Security Unit in 1997. For a prison raid at Cummins Unit! I was in prison for 27 years and 25 of those years.
At the Maximum Security Unit I met the person who changed my life for the better and forever. He was my mentor and someone I looked up too and respected. He was a father figure and role model to me!
Captain J. Davis, AKA “Captain Jack Mule,” was the most feared Captain in the ADC and the most respected by all officers and inmates! We started a gang intervention n prevention program called UNITY (You n I helping Teen Youth) in 2004.
We had the most violence and dangerous inmates in the ADC and Arkansas in our class! 25 at a time! They we’re in the problem for 6 Months! PBS in 2009 did a documentary on me. “U.N.I.T.Y” received an Emmy Award for Best Documentary (Public Affairs) in the 2012 annual awards competition of the Mid-America Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
Governor Asa Hutchinson commuted my time in 2022 and I was released February 2,2022!
Now I work for the City of Little Rock in the Department of Community Programs as the Positive Intervention & Transition Coordinator for the City!
Lahairoi is the Director of Outreach at Carter's Crew.
