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Legal Name: Christian Alliance Network, Inc.
Trade Name: C. A. N.
County: Barbour County in Eufaula, Alabama
Date Started: May 1, 2003
New Location: Franklin County in Columbus, Ohio
Date Started: August 1, 2010
The Christian Alliance Network, Inc, was formed on May 1, 2003 to operate as an faith-based, church-controlled organization. Since its inception, the Christian Alliance Network, Inc (C.A.N.) organization has positioned it’s self as part of a unique, collaborative effort to support local churches at-risk youth summer. Over the past 7 years the (C.A.N.) organization has helped raise funds to support a total of 4 summer youth camps for this strategy to further emphasize skill building sustainability. Certain children, however, are in critical need of social intervention. These are generally the children who have traditionally been termed “at-risk” They are usually poor minorities often from other cultural backgrounds.
It has been hard for Schools to reaching at-risk parent, traditional methods of parental involvement do not work with at-risk parents. In addition, the history of relationships between poor and minority parents and schools has been very different than those of the middle class. Barriers and misperceptions that exist for both parents and schools include: At-risk parents may have feelings of inadequacy, failure, and poor self-worth, as well as negative experience with schools. Other cultures, as well as many low-income parents in general, see schools as institutionalized authority and, therefore , leave it to the teachers to educate their children. Additionally, there This innovation and relationship building rather than one of at the same time, dedicated resources and support are being scaled back in order to promote self-sufficiency of the ……. Simultaneously operating with increased expectations and fewer resources poses and inherent challenge that must be managed carefully and conscientiously.
Positioned as a new approach, it is ultimately about more efficient and targeted management of existing resources its infrastructures devoted to coordinating an array of family resources. An active mix of support resources including on-site technical assistance, structured opportunities for peer-to-peer learning improved access resources, at the same time it is a concerted effort to promote a long-term commitment to at-risk and disconnected youth by emphasizing a sustainable partnerships and collaborative programming processes.
The long-term success of the C.A.N. is critically dependent on adopting a holistic and highly integrated view of the challenges facing our neediest youth. As such, both prevention, and remediation strategies must draw on the expertise of a full array of public agencies, philanthropic foundations, and faith-based and community organizations. Particularly critical to the sustained success of the k-12 public education system that along with parents, plays a uniquely influential role in shaping the life trajectory of our youth. “The predictable consequence in such situations is that children usually embrace the familiar home culture and reject the unfamiliar school culture, including its academic components and goals,“ for this reason C.A.N. focus on parental involvement with the schools and community for at-risk children becouse their home and school worlds are so different. |
