About

During my years at Morehouse College, I was given an assignment by Dr. William Sheftal, then head of the Business Department, and instructor of Urban Economics Public Policy class, to seek economic solutions for the African American community.

Around this time, I had read the book, Up From Slavery, written by Booker T. Washington, which not only inspired me to seek solutions for economic development in our community, but to also strive to make these economic improvements a reality.

If Booker T. Washington could start a school to teach people right out of slavery, then we should able to educate our communities out of integration. If students from Tuskegee (right out of slavery) could build forty buildings from their own bricks, then today, with all of our skills and technology, we could also rebuild our poor communities throughout this land.

MY EXPERIENCE TEACHING HIGH SCHOOL

My experience teaching in Oakland high schools (Castlemont High School in East Oakland, and later at McClymonds High School in West Oaklan) has assisted in my development of the Healthy Economics Campaign Model.

I realized, the choices students make to either enter college, the military, or the job market, is largely based on information they gather at their high school. For example, in most under served communities, there are very few actual businesses that exist. And very few, if any, would enable youth from the neighborhood to train or work there.

I also realized, the majority of students attending these schools, upon graduation, sought to leave their community as soon as the opportunity would arise.

Which led me to view this issue from "a communities" perspective of education. In otherwords, how does the community feel about the people we define as educated? Are they part of the "Big Head " the collective mind of the school ?

In formulating the Healthy Economics Plan, I felt a major role of our campaign is to inspire the educated ones to stay in their community to inspire others to further their education. In order to entice them to stay, they have to be apart of the communities future developments.

Healthy Economics FAQ

What is our vision?
Building HealthyEconomics is our vision.

What is our strategy to achieve our vision?
The Four Steps of Hotep is our guide to illustrate the four programs to build healthy economics. These programs are: 1stsaturdays, Mo' Better Food, Friends of School, and The Intergenerational Enterprise. These four programs work togther to build Healthy Economics.

How can it work in any community?

Since every community has a high school, and high school students are just at the age when they should begin attaining work experience, The Healthy Economics Model intiates the high school as the nucleus for community organizing and community development. Since a High School is in your community, the Healthy Economics Model can work in your community.

You can go through the various websites mentioned and pull information from them to understand what Healty Economics is all about. You can also purchase the $3.00 E-Book"The Four Steps of Hotep," with the above already done for you. we suggest, you do both.

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We are Looking forward to networking Healthy Economics in your community

Kind regards

David N. Roach
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