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Black Community Crusade for Children® Programs

Coordinated nationally by CDF, the BCCC® programs seek to:

  • deepen community support for the healthy development of Black children
  • strengthen the Black community tradition of self-help
  • rebuild bridges between generations and between the Black middle class and poor
  • assist and galvanize Black leadership around specific goals for children
  • identify, train, nurture, link, and empower effective Black servant-leaders younger than 30

BCCC Student Leadership Network for Children® (SLNC) conducts the Ella Baker Child Policy Training Institute and sends trained college students to work as teachers, counselors, and role models for disadvantaged children in summer CDF Freedom Schools™ programs across the country.

CDF Haley Farm

In 1994, CDF purchased the late Alex Haley's 158-acre Tennessee farm near Knoxville. The farm serves as the spiritual home of the Leave No Child Behind® Movement and is used to train leaders of all ages.

Our work at CDF Haley Farm centers on:

  • community-building
  • spiritual, character, and leadership development
  • intergenerational mentoring
  • interracial and interethnic communication
  • interdisciplinary networking
  • training

BCCC National Headquarters
25 E Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001
Tel: 202-628-8787
Fax: 202-662-3580
cdfinfo@childrensdefense.org

BCCC Southern Regional Office
2659 Livingston Road, Suite 200
Jackson, MS 39213
Phone: (601) 321-1966
Fax: (601) 321-8736

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