

Meet Our Founder
Ms. Annie Barber is a multifaceted individual, celebrated not only as a devoted mother but also esteemed as an author and the visionary CEO/Founder of Rosaleana's Community Development Center, Inc. Her diverse talents and unwavering dedication have earned her the moniker of "jack of all trades," a title well-deserved after years spent tirelessly advocating for the welfare of families, veterans, and children within the community.

About Rosaleana’s
Rosaleana’s Community Development Center, Inc is a housing and career job training agency. We pride ourselves on preparing the young and the young at heart for careers and job readiness beyond Covid-19. Our client centred approach allows clients to gain support while obtaining their education, certification programs, and/or job training. “We build strong individuals, to build stronger communities.”
Our programs and services help individuals secure their financial, medical, educational, and overall basic needs. In addition to providing these basic needs such as housing or food, what makes the care bestowed at Rosaleana ’s unique is our acute attentiveness to all resident’s individual dreams and goals.
We empower them to consider their own specific needs as we take the time to fully engage and inform them about the opportunities and resources afforded to them to help them achieve these goals. They are also enriched in mentoring sessions to help them not only to gain independent living skills, but also to adopt healthy coping, working, and lifestyle habits which will help them get to the places they desire to be in life and to excel there.


Meet Our CEO
Yalanda Barber-Sweney is wife, mom of a son and 3 fur babies, best-selling children’s book author, social impact leader, and entrepreneur. After graduating from Albany State University, she became an educator, and later a school counselor. Ms. Sweney has been providing services to homeless foster youth and families and children with developmental and behavioral disabilities since 2005 to inform, educate, and empower the world about Foster and Adoptive Care. She wrote her first bestselling book in 2020 and the attention of this book has awarded her and the organization to be named 2022, 2023 Best of Atlanta non-profit organization among many other things.




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