Empowering Students,
Supporting Communities.
We believe in children as children because of the contribution they make to the world when they are children.
We don’t believe that children have to grow up to be adults before they can contribute to a better world. They are a vital part of the solutions the world needs at this time in history.
We recognize the youth of the world as essential members of a functional society. In fact, we consider that they are the most necessary component of the solutions to the world’s problems because they can be, in the end, the most powerful contributors to a better world, if we teach them well and are willing to learn from them too.
We recognize that strong peer bonds are formative and powerful and that when students are equipped with effective, life supporting knowledge and skills they influence each other in effective, life supporting ways.
We see a need to support young people so that they can support each other and then go out into the world able to function at a capacity that contributes to a functional society, community wellbeing, increased social capital, and productive respectful co-existence.
We believe that we can contribute to making a better world by providing young people the foundational life skills and knowledge of the CLC curriculum.
We believe that schools play a vital and direct role in supporting healthy students and communities. By engaging in this work, teachers can help empower students to unlock their unlimited potential.
The Mission of the CLC is to provide students with knowledge and life skills, which increase resilience and wellbeing and the potential for success in learning and living.
Our Vision, as an outcome of our work, is people who have been liberated from their trauma, participating in functional, productive communities that are navigating and meeting their challenges in a world that works for all of us.
The CLC’s contribution to our vision is young people who have hope for the future, a sense of belonging and wellbeing in the context of community, are trauma-informed, trauma-aware, and trauma-prepared, experience an increase in learning and life success, and influence the success of their peers.
The Core Principle on which our mission and vision are based:
We honor the innate wisdom of all human beings and their ability to explore their own challenges and experiences within the context of their own culture and worldview and come to their own conclusions about them.
Our Values: Here's what we consider to be important in achieving our vision:
1. Accessibility - because if it costs money people don't have or is too hard to understand, what good is it?
2. Collaboration - because that's how to get things done.
3. Connection - through authentic and open communication, the product of which is empathy. Thus loving compassion is possible.
4. Person-centeredness - the recognition of fundamental goodness and innate human wisdom... because the opposite is darkness.
5. Respect - and the unprejudiced recognition of mutual humanity… because superiority and inferiority are barriers to our connection.
6. Restoration of Hope - the kind of hope that leads to action, for without it we are lost.
7. The Spirit of Play - which provided the lightness needed to carry heavy things.
8. Humility - to live by each of these values.