Healing-Centered Masculinity Transformation

Offers formal education support, digital literacy, computer skills, English, math, and career-ready training through a sponsorship program that covers school fees, supplies, tutoring, and transportation; graduates receive certificates and enter technology or vocational fields.

Builds schools and supports expanded access to quality education for children in rural Africa through infrastructure development.

Operates a 20-acre farm in Kigumba district, Uganda, to support poultry farming and agricultural production, providing street-connected boys with fresh eggs and meat for improved nutrition and using sales revenue to sustain and expand programs.

Provides daily access to services including meals, showers, laundry, counseling, and medical care for 35–40 street-connected boys, along with monthly and seasonal outreach events in Kampala and surrounding slums serving over 400 boys per event with food, hygiene services, medical care, and psychosocial support.

Provides structured training in tailoring, fashion, poultry farming, shoe and soap making, hair cutting, and nail care; includes business and financial literacy, with graduating participants receiving starter poultry flocks or tools to launch income-generating activities.

Locates and reunites missing street-connected boys with their families, often within hours or days of receiving a report or photo, and offers rehabilitation and counseling to support reintegration.

Conducts advocacy efforts focused on promoting gender equity and challenging harmful stereotypes affecting men and boys in the Northeast region.

Organizes regular meetups, workshops, and events to support personal development and foster meaningful conversations among men, and maintains a resource hub with articles, podcasts, and readings on mental health, relationships, and career development.

Co-leads and sponsors semiannual ritual-based men's retreats known as Spirit Camps at YMCA Camp Hi-Rock in the Berkshire Mountains, providing programs for personal growth through physical, mental, emotional, and intellectual activities for men from the local community and across New England. These camps have been organized annually for over 26 years.

Offers financial support through the RLA Cote Scholarship Fund to enable men—particularly those 18 or older, in recovery, veterans, or elders—to attend Spirit Camps, with scholarships awarded to support equitable access.

Offers education and curated resources for parents, caregivers, and educators on supporting boys' emotional expression and regulation, including experiential learning on combating gender pressure.

Provides social, emotional, and relational skills development for boys in Pre-K through 6th grade to support emotional intelligence and prevent adverse childhood experiences. Offers after-school social-emotional learning workshops lasting four, six, eight, or sixteen weeks.

Conducts and produces interviews and discussions with experts, thought leaders, researchers, and practitioners on topics including boys' emotional and social development, patriarchy, religious influences on masculine identity, and online misogyny.

Advocates for healthy, inclusive masculinity and challenges cultural assumptions about masculinity through online content, short-form video, and public dialogue, rejecting toxic ideologies and promoting emotional openness.

ACTM CORP supports community improvement through advocacy aligned with gender equity and respectful engagement of men and boys.

Co-founded Fairfield Change, a grassroots organization that meets the material needs of underserved and unhoused individuals in California.

Advocates for bail reform and the #CloseRikers campaign through public media and activism, and supports community-led safety planning through participatory budgeting and service on East Harlem’s Community Board 11.

Provides free weekend "Quest" retreats and weekly peer-led circles focused on emotional healing and personal development, with a focus on accessibility for formerly incarcerated and at-risk men. In 2024, hosted seven 3-day "rites of passage" retreats, 60% of whose participants were formerly incarcerated men.