Albany Fire Chief Cedric Scott key speaker during local TEAAMS Monthly Empowerment Session at Albany Tech

ALBANY, Ga. – Albany Fire Department (AFD) Chief Cedric Scott was a featured speaker this morning at Albany Technical College during a TEAAMS Monthly Empowerment Session.

Standing for Teaching, Empowering, African American Males to Succeed, the program aims to equip African American males with the essential skills to help them persist and succeed despite facing internal and external challenges.

Chief Scott spoke on his personal story, as well as giving advice on both career and life responsibilities.

Making sure you’re a great person in every aspect.

“I think it’s important when you have an opportunity to talk about what I believe are the basic steps to becoming a professional, and what we need in order to be successful in life. And, I had an opportunity to talk about that today and explore some of the important topics I think are, very critical in my development over the years, which is, good character professionalism, integrity, self-care, self-esteem, and by all means, commitment and being able to understand what commitment is and both of your personal lives and your business affairs, but commitment. It is, I think it’s just important to share my story,” said Chief Cedric Scott, Albany Fire Department (AFD).

Albany Technical College hosts a TEAAMS event at least once every month.

Gabe Hutton reporting.

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