Cacd Careers in Mississauga, ON

Citizens for the Advancement of Community Development (CACD) was founded in 2002 by Ron and Sonia Cunningham as a grassroots organization that works with youth from “high priority neighbourhoods”, between the ages of 11 and 25, by offering a wide range of innovative programs that serve their unique needs, develops leadership capabilities, and fosters civic participation. CACD first began to work in Jamaica, as a response to the myriad of challenges that high-risk youth were facing, such as a lack of social skills, teen pregnancy, delinquency, lack of health care/awareness, criminal activity, negative peer pressure, etc. CACD believed that these issues were creating a generation of youth that were disempowered, socially and spiritually impoverished, and that they were falling through the cracks of community.