The Brookland-Lakeview Empowerment Center (BLEC) has partnered with S.C. WORKS, South Carolina Department of Employment and Workforce (DEW) and Brookland Baptist Church to become a “Connection Point”, a program aimed to assist the unemployed find a job as well as employees seeking new opportunities that will lead to career advancement. Other benefits are also part

Dr. Cindye Richburg-Cotton, executive director of the Brookland-Lakeview Empowerment Center (BLEC) has been named a Region Ambassador for the WeGOJA Foundation. The ambassadors will seek community input as WeGOJA develops its Preservation Toolkit for South Carolina. In addition to in-person listening sessions, the WeGOJA Foundation will host virtual sessions on select Thursday evenings beginning in