Serving ages 5-24 years olds - CDI supports scholars struggling to engage, withdrawing from academic settings, working to balance social emotional health, disconnecting from peers, building and creating college and career goals and working to become self-sufficient adults.   

CDI plants seed in the community to help scholars achieve high academic performance and emerge as self-sufficient, career/college-ready adults.

CDI earnestly believe it takes a village to educate a scholar, and we will rise to the occasion and support and supplement the public and private educational curricula.  

CDI collaborates with community programs aimed at supporting students that benefit from academic and community support.

CDI Mission Statement: The mission of CDI is to help young men and women gain integrity, increase academic skills and improve life skills especially social emotional and self-confidence which are essential to becoming an educated, philanthropic, 21st century, law-abiding

citizen.

CDI Vision: The vision of CDI aims to promote scholars to develop lifelong skills to be intellectually and personally successful.   Scholars will demonstrate a desire to help the community and to be self-motivated in making sound academic and life decisions.  Therefore, the small learning community model will be used to foster a collaborative vision that will promote academic success for all scholars.  

CDI Civility Statement:

“I am helpful and I am tolerant. I am respectful to myself, my peers, my parents and my community.  I am actively engaged in learning. I will not hinder the learning process for myself or my peers. I am a 21st century student at work!”

Inspiration and Mentors

The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach and how we live".

~Jane Addams: Circa 1930's 

Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.

~Marian Wright Edelman: Circa 1970's

Our young people need to be educated to the highest standard in this new information age, and surely this includes a clear awareness of how the media influences, shapes, and defines their lives." 

 Richard Riley: 2025