The Central Bellport Civic Association (CBCA) is a very diverse and multi-cultural organization created for the purpose of promoting the educational, moral, economic, civic and recreational welfare of the greater Bellport, East Patchogue communities and its residents.  Our mission is to represent all voices in a united effort against injustices by uplifting and advancing the community through mobilization and empowerment. 

     Our purpose is not to reinvent the wheel, but to utilize the already rich source of experience that has been in this neighborhood for decades, and to collectively bring all our visions together to accomplish what we have been working at individually.  We have been labeled as the most impoverished community on Long Island with the mean income being under 17Thousand a year.  We have been labeled as a (DINI) District in Need of Improvement by NYS Department of Education with many of the minority student’s grades not reaching desired rates.  We have issues with high rents for housing units by absentee landlords.  We have had low voter turnouts at the polls and this has been a source of the lack of local government assistance in our neighborhood. Our neighborhood is in a socioeconomic distress, including a lack of effective business to keep the community built up.  We also have a safety issue in community as it relates to poor infrastructure, i.e. no sidewalks or bike trails, no properly equipped parks for our children, soliciting of young school age children to sell dugs, the easy access to guns in the neighborhood and other undesirables that have plagued us openly. 

     CBCA is particularly qualified to fulfill this mission because of the diverse makeup of the participating organizations as members.  We are willing to address sensitive issues that other agencies and groups may be unable or unwilling to deal with, so that each unique organization may be able to remain free to accomplish their particular purpose in the neighborhood.  Our leadership is made up of qualified clergy that continually pray and counsel the people of the neighborhood.  The spiritual aspect of this neighborhood is very alive but sometimes overshadowed by the immediate need in the community.  We have the expertise of leaders who are skillfully qualified to bring our community together to overcome crisis.  We have advisors whose credentials qualify them as experts in the criminal/gang relations, community organization and other areas.

Order from left to right.

CBCA Director G.Ellis

Bishop Kennedy

CBCA Member G. Grier-Key

CBCA President Pastor C. Bullock

Members of the

South Country Ambulance Service.