The mission of CHILDREN of PARENTS with AIDS(COPWA) is to promote preventive services for "at-risk" youth & families and assure the transitional services and permanency planning necessary to helping parents and prospective parents living with HIV/AIDS gain emotional and spiritual comfort in the knowledge that their children will be provided for in a safe, loving and nurturing family environment.
In 2002, COPWA assumed the d/b/a GUIDING LIGHT enabling the organization to expand its mission. GUIDING LIGHT'S mission is to provide empowerment for young men and women, ages 17-24 at-risk of poverty and incarceration by providing life skills training created specifically to address the social and economic barriers to self-sufficiency for New York City's at-risk young adults.
