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CHARITY SPOTLIGHT

fca’s staff are trained to treat the causes
of young people’s dificulties, as well

as the symptoms, and always to put
residents’ needs before their own while

they are on campus.

While living at an fCA residence, cli-
ents learn improved communication and

social interaction and develop academic
and personal goals. New Pathways

Academy is an on-campus school that
helps residents complete their educa-

tion through credit recovery and gED
preparation, so students are prepared

for both future employment or going on
to college or vocational training.

Especially on campus, Christian
insists all fCA staff must have a pas-

sion for the work and understand that
resident needs come first before their

own: “These residences should never
become a punitive environment. This nonprofit established in memory of symptoms. To address that need, the

is their home, not ours. once you figure henry louis granju, an 18-year-old fCA sends a speaking panel of high
out a young person’s story—where
Knoxvillian who died in 2010 after school students to Knox, Monroe, and

they are—you’ll also understand that becoming addicted to prescription Roane counties to address middle- and
they are all unique. No cookie-cutter painkillers and opiates and falling high-school students about issues

treatment is going to work. But you can between the cracks.
such as peer pressure, substance
always be a role model.”
abuse, and other real-life, high-risk

for those dealing with severe COMMUnITY OUTREACH
situations they may face.
substance abuse, the fCA offers the Christian explains that another Moreover, most teenage and unwed

Youth Summit of Recovery: an intense reason the fCA’s core services have pregnancies today require no drastic
60-day program that has as one of
changed is a better understanding of intervention. The fCA’s Child and Par-

its grant partners henry’s fund—the
the need to treat causes, rather than
enting Skills (CAPS) program instead
helps new teen parents stay in school

while learning how to nurture the
physical, emotional, social, and cogni-

tive development of their children. for
the parents, the CAPS Referral Net-

work assists with childcare, employ-
ment, education, and finances.

The fCA also sponsors foster care,
providing case management and in-

home services and training—as well as
monthly reimbursements—to its foster

parents. Christian calls those parents
“heroes” and says that they can benefit

from their fostering experience as
much as their children do: “The young

people in all our programs have come
from tough situations, but when they

go on to graduate or in some cases be

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