A Word from
Debra Vallair,
CANAAN KIDS
Executive Director

Our objective is to propel students toward becoming self-made entrepreneurs, to develop the abilities they already possess, to expose the artist to the business world and to help them make wise choices concerning their careers as artists/ wise business entrepreneurs.

Upon completion of the program, CANAAN KIDS hopes to have scholarships available for students desiring to attend college, art school, etc., to enable students to achieve higher skill development by exposure to greater learning opportunities.

Education

CANAAN Kids' inception was the result of a desire to raise, nurture, teach and train school-age youth while using The Department of Human Resource's certified age appropriate competencies and activities.

CANAAN Kids now serves as a vehicle that develops gifted artist into entrepreneurs. Choreographed dance routines become sponsor paid performances. Poetry readers, song and literary writers have their works published. Gifted singers and musicians are developed into our future's recording artist.

With school absenteeism and school dropout rates skyrocketing, school violence and drug addiction on the rampage, teenage suicide and pregnancies reaching alarming rates, child educators and caregivers must rise to the challenge.

We must recommit our time, our energies, and our talents into becoming part of the solution to OUR problem. These at-risk youth have an intricate part to play in our schools, our communities, our state, our country and especially our homes.