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=**Geoffrey Canada**=
 * [[image:geoffrey_canada.jpg width="188" height="212"]]

Basic Work:** He is the author of the book First Stick Knife Gun: A Personal History of Violence in America. In 2006, Mike Bloomberg appointed him as the co-chair of a task force that will be used to try to reduce poverty in New York City. He is also the founder of the Change Moo Kwan Martial Arts School where he teaches children the principles of Tae Kwon Do along with anti-violence and conflict resolution techniques. In 1983, he became the program director of the Truancy Prevention Program. He also served as Director of the Robert White School which is a private day school for troubled inner city youth.


 * Key Work:** He is the president and CEO of the Harlem Children's Zone. He started this program with Soros's Quantum Fund Manager and Stan Druckenmiller, who funds the program. This is a program that helps over 9,000 children and their families within a 60 block radius in central Harlem. It incorporates family support services like legal advice and housing;after-school programs like tutoring, games and music; and social programs like child-rearing classes. Basically it combines educational, social and medical services. In 2004, he founded the charter school, the Promise Acadamy which goes from K through 12 and has an extra hour of class each day and an extra month and a half of school each year which is more than the standard public schools in New York City.

He is a mover because he is determined to make children's lives more successful and violence free. He started the Harlem Children's Zone and a helpful tool in educating children in lower socio-economic households and neighborhoods. More than 8,600 children are enrolled in this program. The approach that the Harlem Children’s Zone takes is to change the mindset of children in Harlem. There have been programs like Canada’s before but they have never taken this approach. He says "If we can get Harlem to the place where passing is the normal thing, staying out of jail is normal, guys growing up and getting jobs is normal, that, to me, is victory." They also start the kids with their services at birth and keep them until they graduate college. Another innovative thing that Canada is doing with the Harlem Kids Zone is not just trying to help the motivated and gifted children in Harlem but instead he is trying to help everyone in large numbers. He has also started the Promise Acadamy which helps these children in lower socio-economic households. It is different than any regular public school because of the extended day, extended school year and Saturday classes. It also has a medical facility where kids can see doctors and dentists inside the school. Canada hands out money from his own pocket to every child in his Promise Academy that has perfect attendance. He is also the East Coast regional coordianator for the Black Community Crusade for Children (BCCC) and the Children’s Defense Fund. These two programs were started to try to stop violence in black community’s and to save the children in these communities. There is a program that was implemented in the city in 1998 called the Beacon Schools Program. They used Geoffrey Canada’s Harlem Kids Zone as a model. They provided after school and summer programs inside of public schools. With the Harlem Children’s Zone and the Promise Academy, Geoffrey Canada created model programs and set an example for all adults wanting to protect children from crime, drugs, violence, and despair.
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