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The Remarkable Mossi Youth Council has been consistent in providing a caring, nurturing educational environment for the community, serving children between the ages of infancy through eighteen years old since 1983.

The Remarkable Mossi Youth Council is located in the urban empowerment zone of Jersey City, in the State of New Jersey. The urban empowerment zone consists of a 26 block area on Martin Luther King Drive of which, Remarkable Mossi operates four businesses within this zone. The businesses which includes the following:

  • Family Collective Day Care Centers (I & II)
      • Before Care Breakfast Club
  • Mossi Primary School
      • Remarkable Mossi After School Program
  • Remarkable Mossi Summer Camp
  • ADDITIONAL BUSINESS SERVICES PROVIDED:

      • Chocolate City Bus & Livery Services
      • Chocolate City Youth Internet Cafe
      • Chocolate City Corner Cafe
      • Chocolate City Consultant Group
      • Khafre Construction Inc.
      • Chill Town Restaurant

    Remarkable Mossi Youth Council provides a wide range of community services for youth that focuses on academic excellence, youth employment opportunities, drug, tobacco and alcohol prevention education and volunteerism.

    Our youth programs consist of the following:

      • Youth Entrepreneur Training
      • Youth Exchange Program
      • Independent Living Program for at-risk teens
      • Mentoring Sessions for the Young Men and Young Ladies

    We are in partnership with the NJ Department of Human Services, Division of Family Development and the Department of Youth and Family. Over 90% of the families we serve in the surrounding communities receive child care subsidies.

    Our mission is to develop a “city within a city” where the residents in any community would be able to walk out of their door and become consumers in their very own neighborhoods.

    We are located in four locations in Jersey City:

    • 151 Martin Luther King Drive
      • Chocolate City Headquarters
    • 140 Martin Luther King Drive
      • Room 105/Family Collective Day Care Center
    • 453 Martin Luther King Drive
      • Family Collective Day Care Center
    • 182 Myrtle Avenue
      • Mossi Primary School, Day Care and Infant Care Center/Telephone:  201-433-9888

    Our Staff:
     
    Philip Carrington - President & CEO
    Pat Carrington - Director of the Family  Collective Day Care Centers
    Oluyemi Carrington - Assistant Director of the After School Program & Summer Camp
    Marlyn Allen - Administrator of the Mossi Primary School
    Cathy Baggett - Head Teacher/Mossi Primary School
     
    Consultant:  Kimberley Kafele
     
    Chill Town Restaurant:  Cedric Carrington
     

     

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    info@remarkablemossi.com

    Remarkable Mossi Youth Council
    151 Martin Luther King Drive* Jersey City * NJ * 07305
    Telephone Number:  201-333-7837
    Fax Number:  201-433-9696
    E-mail Address:  Remarkablemossi@hotmail.com