Welcome
Associates for Renewal in Education, Inc. (ARE) has been serving the Washington, D.C. community for over 40 years, 25 of those years under the leadership and guidance of the late Brenda Strong Nixon. During this time, ARE has grown from its original educational-based orientation to becoming a multi-faceted programming agency that works primarily with at-promise and under resourced children, youth, and families to improve the quality of their lives through programs and services that support them from cradle to career.
Mission
The mission of ARE is to empower children, youth, and families in the District of Columbia to achieve success in life through comprehensive cradle-to-career educational and social services that address their academic and employment needs.
Our Values
- When people are treated with love and respect, they will learn to treat others with love and respect.
- ARE workers will display integrity in their interaction with clients, the community, and the ARE family itself.
- People deserve to be treated with dignity. Their strengths will be recognized and utilized; their autonomy and privacy will be respected.
- People will be treated fairly.
- People will have an equitable opportunity to succeed to their maximum potential.
- People will not be harmed and their safety and welfare should be promoted.
- People will value diversity and respect others of all ethnic backgrounds, sexual orientations, economic statuses, ages, abilities, and disabilities.
Our Beliefs
- People learn best in interaction with their environments, and service providers must offer a variety of developmentally appropriate opportunities and experiences to promote growth of human potential.
- Members of the community are an integral part of the service development and delivery process.
- Knowledge about, and application of, effective services is a requirement for state-of-the-art programs.
- Compassionately arranged learning experiences are required to promote success and to redirect people who have experienced little success and much failure in mainstream systems.
- Carefully applying tested interventions and programs produces beneficial outcomes for clients. Conversely, careless and incomplete application of interventions is unlikely to be effective and teaches clients that services are not helpful and that service providers are ineffective.
- If we monitor the quality and intensity of our services, we will deliver them in effective form. If we do not monitor what we do, we will not deliver quality programs.
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