CCFA’s family achievement model encourages the development of family centered academic and other enrichment strategies, for underperforming communities and learning environments, within the City of Trenton. Low income children in the City of Trenton face a myriad of challenges that impact their educational experiences from kindergarten to high school. Many of these challenges are reflective of the fact that Trenton’s children are disproportionately affected by poverty, and the barriers it presents to family stability and long term commitment to educational achievement.

Summarily, these barriers typically include food, housing insecurity, unemployment and the lack of safety resulting from exposure to maladaptive situations resulting in family instability. These real life, real-time circumstances fuel the underachievement of low income students and also continue to perplex urban educational systems and their practitioners on how best to intervene.