Community Coalition for Children (CCC) serves as a model for educational and social programs that help children thrive. CCC believes:
That it is important to offer educators, parents, community organizations, and students themselves the opportunity to learn about current data, research, and strategies from experts.
In the importance of intergenerational interactions that energize and enable constructive dialogue.
In empowering participants to be vehicles of change in their community.
We seek to enable fruitful interface among these groups as all work for positive outcomes across the SECT region. Together We All Thrive.
OUR MISSION
The mission of Community Coalition for Children (CCC) is to be a catalyst for collaborative efforts to create, sponsor, and endorse educational and social programs designed to help children thrive.
OUR BEGINNINGS
In 1996, a group of local volunteers were talking with one another about the issues and concerns they faced within their own families. They realized their common angst and decided to bring parenting expert Adele Faber to the area to discuss How To Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk.
This was a major undertaking for the group and they soon realized that they couldn't do it alone. They combined resources with twelve other local organizations, and within the year they worked together to coordinate Ms. Faber's lecture, the ad hoc committee seemed to take on a life of its own. In that first program year, 750 people attended Ms. Faber's lecture on a Monday evening with 400 people participating at follow-up workshops the next day. Following the success of the lecture, and eager to continue the momentum created by the community partnerships that had been formed, the Community Coalition for Children (CCC)formally organized and officially launched.