Christian Neighborhood Center Of Norwich Inc

Summer youth employment program- this program is a comprehensive asset building program for local teens between the ages of 14-20. The program offers opportunities to teens in the following focus areas; youth entrepreneurship and job training, including job readiness and work experiences, academic support towards high school graduation, and character and leadership development.

Parent project- trained educators from the place facilitate evidence based curriculum for parents and guardians, as well as at risk youth. Classes for parents/guardians include: parent project, loving solutions, and preparing our kids for success. Youth participate in why try. The goal of all of these classes is to educate and empower parents/ guardians and also to assist youth in building resiliency and better equipping them with skills to be successful.

Teen development: teen job training is administered through the chenango place products program(cpp). Cpp sells local products arranged in gift baskets to retail and wholesale/corporate customers. All stages of this small business are used as job training for teens.

Youth philantropy council: this program teaches high school students about philanthropy and nonprofits. They write their own rfp/application, develop a scoring rubric, and accept applications to fund nonprofit projects. They then determine who they want to fund. They act as a student led foundation.