The center, founded by Derrell Roberts and his wife Tina Roberts, currently runs four CDF Freedom Schools sites in the Sacramento, California area.
Derrell Roberts believes the CDF Freedom Schools program allows his organization to serve as part of a movement that both educates children about, and furthers the core tenets of, the Civil Rights Movement.
Roberts has worked to instill this idea throughout the center’s Freedom Schools program.
According to Roberts, Jayshawn Yancy, the site coordinator at Roberts Family Development Center’s Rio Terra Junior High School site, serves as one example of a leader who has come through the center and the CDF Freedom Schools movement.
Roberts Family Development Center is currently pushing for a dedicated youth fund in California to ensure even more areas can fund their own CDF Freedom Schools programs.
