APEX was formed for the expressed purpose of supporting, innovating and creating programs and services focusing on the needs of young people from age 5 through 25 in our communities.

Our Mission

APEX Community Advancement and The APEX Youth Center were founded with the goal and purpose of “Improving Lives Through Education, Technology and The Arts”.

APEX Community Advancement, Inc. is for the expressed purpose of supporting, innovating and creating programs and services focusing on the needs of young people from age 5 through 25, and their families, in our communities.  Our ultimate objective is to create cycles of creativity and accountability, therefore reducing cycles of poverty, crime, illiteracy and neglect.

Our award winning programming has been developed over the last decade with our APEX Youth Center project. As we look to our future, we are taking the APEX concept beyond the walls. It was one of our young people who put it best when he inspired the next chapter by declaring, “APEX is not a place! APEX lives inside of us, and now we are going to carry it with us wherever we go!”

If you would like to bring the APEX culture to your community, school, or organization, please visit:

PursuingExcellence.org to learn more or call us at

504-358-2739

Join us in our efforts of community building as we become co-creators with our neighbors, creating communities working with one another.