The Child & Family Network Centers Information

For the past 35 years, The Child & Family Network Centers (CFNC) has been changing lives. We got our start when a group of seventeen dedicated mothers realized that their children had failed out of kindergarten because they didn’t have access to high-quality early education. Determined that this would not be the case for any more children in their neighborhood, a teacher was hired, a classroom secured, and CFNC was born. Although we had a humble beginning, our impact has been anything but. CFNC has expanded to become the only nonprofit organization in Alexandria, Virginia that provides free, high quality, multilingual preschool education to those under resourced in Alexandria. Our core expertise is three-fold: (1) We reach families that are often left behind and not served by other programs; (2) we provide a full range of educational, family, and health services that are based on the needs of our clients and are offered free of charge. All of our services are multilingual and culturally sensitive; and (3) we provide programs that improve the quality of life for the entire community. CFNC makes dramatic strides in closing the achievement gap. The success rate of our services is so high, CFNC has been praised by President Obama’s “Preschool for All” initiative as a national model for high-quality, bilingual preschools. We are also one of the first programs in the country to receive accreditation through the National Association for the Education of Young Children—measured against the most concentrated and rigorous national standards for education, health, and safety.