The Child and Family Network Centers (CFNC) provides free high-quality multilingual early education and comprehensive family services in the City of Alexandria to under-resourced children and their families, in their own neighborhoods, to prepare the preschoolers for future success in kindergarten and beyond.
Since its founding more than 40 years ago by a group of mothers living in public housing, CFNC has grown to an organization that has eight neighborhood-based preschool classrooms across the City of Alexandria, serving approximately 139 under-resourced preschool children and their families each year (350 individuals in all). CFNC is a two-generational program, educating children and partnering with families. Their child educational curriculum is built around speech therapy, literacy, math skills, cognitive development, and physical and social development, with a special focus on addressing the needs of children born into the pandemic who have experienced significant setbacks in speech and language development.
As the only nonprofit in the City of Alexandria that provides multilingual preschool and wraparound services, CFNC has achieved transformative outcomes for children and families including impressively high marks in kindergarten readiness, readiness standards across developmental categories, language readiness, and social-emotional readiness. To date, CFNC has empowered over 4,000 families. CFNC’s families represent 19 countries and speak over nine languages. One hundred percent of families have achieved goals related to parenting skills, home environments, and healthy child development.
