Hartford Communities That Care Is enjoying working with youth who are apart of CWP. Click "Summer Learning Experience" ↓
below to see what we have been doing.
Capital Workforce Partners Summer Learning Experience Youth are having fun while receiving career development & career competencies training .
OUR HISTORY
In April 2002, the Mayor's Community Building Task Force (CBTF) was convened by Former Mayor Eddie Perez to examine and respond to violence and drug use/ selling among youth and families living in North Hartford's Upper Albany and Northeast sections of the city. The Mayor appointed Chuck Cummings (City of Hartford Department of Health and Human Services) and Andrew Woods, Co-Founder of the Stump the Violence Youth Leadership Institute as co-chairs of this initiative. During the first year 15-familes received intervention, ranging from working with their at-risk children, to providing wrap-around services to the family. In addition, the CBTF sponsored several community anti-violence events, where several hundred youth and families participated. Finally, in-school at-risk youth at Weaver, Fox Middle, Milner and Martin Luther King schools were seen, by a group of men from the community for one-on-one and group mentoring.
One year later (May 15, 2003), the CBTF reviewed and began the process of implementing the Communities That Care® planning model (CTC), a nationally known, best practice model geared toward involving residents and various other stakeholders in a systematic planning process to understand issues and concerns relative to violence and drug use. Since then, the CBTF was restructured and became known as the Hartford Communities That Care® (HCTC).
