B-Elite Learning Academy, LLC.
B-Elite Learning Academy, LLC.
Who are we?
Who are we?
Our Mission & Vision
Our Mission & Vision
Our mission is to spark creativity and provide professional opportunities for youth seeking creative professional career paths and entrepreneurship, and also help them to discover their strength in their various track. We also encourage leadership, team building, and innovation skills and are committed to developing our youth’s interests, talents, passions, and abilities.
Our vision is to provide youth professional training programs that prepares them for a national creative arts and entrepreneurship competition, giving an opportunity for participants to win prizes such as grants, stipends, and scholarships as well as developing skills that may possibly translate into a career.
Why donate to B-Elite Learning Academy?
Why donate to B-Elite Learning Academy?
Help us carry out our mission to help our youth develop their interests, talents, passions and abilities that may possibly translate into desired careers. Your contribution will allow us to provide the appropriate training for qualified staff , purchase learning materials and equipment for the program and support the day-to-day operations.
Meet our Founder
Meet our Founder
Our organization is headed by Daveda Hawkins. She is experienced in working with youth and has brought this know-how into the running of the company. A passion for teaching and seeing youth improve and challenge themselves led her to start up this company and has kept us going thus far.
Daveda Hawkins was introduced to modeling at the tender age of ten as an attempt to combat her extreme shyness. During her early years with Southern Enterprise Charm School, she quickly grew from student to Instructor. There she was responsible for the delivery of instruction to children, teens and adults as well as choreography and production of fashion shows. At The University of Akron, she produced fashion shows for the local charter of The NAACP and Black United Students. In April of 2003, she incorporated Segami International Inc. and led the organization successfully for seven years. Serving as President and CEO, delivering exceptional instruction as an instructor, grooming exceptional students into Junior Instructors, producing fashion show graduations, overseeing a dynamic parent committee and soliciting the advice of experts in the industry all lead to the success of Segami International, Inc. In 2014. As a career coach for Youth Opportunities Unlimited, Mrs. Hawkins recognized that all graduating youth were not interested in attending a 2–4-year college, vocational program or the military. Through many conversations with students regarding their future goals, she realized that careers in the arts could easily become another career path to explore. She began to bring in individuals from various art inspired industries to speak to the students and talk about their journeys. From there, the idea of B-Elite Learning Academy Inc. was formed.
The target market for our organization includes youth 7th grade through 12th grade. This includes youth that lack resources (social, financial, and familial support) May be homeless, in poverty, immigrants/children of immigrants, LGBTQ, experienced the juvenile criminal system, special needs, have children of their own, etc. and children who have shown great potential in the classroom (for example GPA) or have expressed interest in one or more of the tracks and need an additional support system. We believe that learning at such a young age will give them a huge advantage in gaining mastery over these disciplines and also able fit in into different sector in the business world.
Youth in grades 7th – 12th face the challenge of fitting into professional careers, and the ability to become an entrepreneur due to the inability to explore their potential while they are young. A big factor behind this can be traced to inadequate teaching of these disciplines to youth from a young age. Most times, youth possess just the theoretical knowledge about these disciplines, and are left playing catch up to their contemporaries in other parts of the world, who have access to better teaching and understanding of these disciplines.