COMMUNITY ASSET DEVELOPMENT RE-DEFINING EDUCATION

Mission Statement

CADRE (Community Asset Development Redefining Education) is an independent, community-based, parent membership organization in South Los Angeles founded in August 2001. Our mission is to solidify and advance parent leadership to ensure that all children are rightfully educated regardless of where they live. We seek to effect deep changes in some of the city’s most challenged schools and neighborhoods, by deepening both parents’ individual involvement and advocacy for their own children and their participation in institutional policy change that affects greater numbers of families in the long run.