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Canaan's Community Commitment
Canaan has been, and continues to be, a local resource
in establishing the requisite: intellectual, social, and economic
development to facilitate individual wealth-creating activities.
Our commitment to community outreach began twenty-six years ago with
the inception of Canaan Baptist Church. We firmly believe that ensuring
equity of access to the tools necessary to participate in our great
free market economy is a collaborative effort among government, industry,
civic organizations, and philanthropic individuals.
Faith-based organizations like Canaan provide services meeting a barrage
of human needs. These services are a direct outcome of our commitment
to discovering and fulfilling the needs of those at the margins of
society.
Canaan Community Organizations
- Canaan Academy – Pre-Kindergarten
to 5th grade educational excellence.
- Canaan SAFE Houses – Separate
male and female residential Substance Abuse Free Environment –
channeling human and economic resources INTO the economy via drug
rehabilitation and prevention.
- Canaan Credit Union –
Building personal financial skills and access to capital.
- Canaan Development Foundation
– Supporting investment and charitable funding of nonsectarian
community services.
- Consolidated Development Corporation
– A not-for-profit community development organization that
seeks to guide community improvement of its economically distressed
areas.
What
costs over $700 million and provides no value to the purchasers?
Every year our tax dollars feed, clothe, and house men and women
who are prevented from contributing to society. To be exact, the
last year figures were calculated; Illinois spent $740 million in
prisons. That does not even consider the economic value that prisoners
could have contributed to society’s well being!
How do so many capable individuals
end up behind bars?
To be sure, poor personal choices, coupled with the social ills
of poverty, violence, abuse, and neglect, have contributed to the
plight of prisoners, but only one trend equally characterizes all
incarcerated populations – regular drug use.
Substance abuse is an equal opportunity drain on our society’s
well being. Nearly 75% of all White, as well as Black, and over
60% of Hispanic prisoners admit to regular drug use prior to incarceration.
It’s simple
– Less substance abuse, Less prisoners
Today’s global economy requires every individual to be a contributing
member of society. We don’t have a single person to waste!Canaan’s
SAFE House (Substance Abuse Free Environment) ministry channels
human and economic resources back INTO society by attacking the
drug culture with prevention and rehabilitation.
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