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For 27 years, COCI has partnered to produce innovative and caring solutions that have a lasting impact on children. In Houston, COCI has worked through the No More Victims program to assist high school students who have had a parent in prison build the social and emotional skills to thrive. Now, we are moving into middle schools to meet the unique needs of early adolescents beating the cycle of intergenerational incarceration. COCI also supports legacy programs that work with children in Mexico and Kenya.
Throughout our history, COCIs mission has been to find sustainable solutions that help vulnerable children. Today, our focus is on children of incarcerated parents. These youths often experience a toxic mix of trauma, poverty, and stigma that may have lifelong impacts without intervention.
COCI's programs change the lives of children whose parents are or have been incarcerated in houston schools. We work directly with teens as they struggle with poverty, abuse, and other trauma. For 20 years, nearly 100% of our students have graduated high school and very few have wound up in prison. First, we show them that their lives have meaning. Then, we help motivate them to get their diploma and go onto college or careers. Finally, we give them the social and emotional tools to break the cradle to prison pipeline and live successful lives.
Partnering to create sustainable solutions for the worlds most vulnerablechildren. COCI has a 25-year history of support for innovative, caring solutions that have a lasting impact on children. Internationally, COCI has legacy programs inMexico and Kenya. Through partners, we focus on education and nutrition for at-riskchildren.
Little Blue Schools/Las Escuelitas Azules, located in Reynosa, Mexico, provides access to education, food, healthcare, potable water and shelter in a poverty-stricken community just a few miles from the U.S. border. The community was established by migrant workers several years ago and had no educational services. The program builds small, affordable school buildings, provides tutors, food and school supplies, partnering with government agencies, which provide teachers, and the local community, which helps determine the school needs. As the community has grown and become more permanent, the school program has grown. The number of graduates, while still small, has doubled each year for the past three years. COCI works through a partner and pays 50% of the costs.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| Ken Wells | President & CEO | 40 | $126,000 |
| Benjamin Berg | Director | 5 | $0 |
| Chris Carmouche | Secretary | 5 | $0 |
| Jamie Ballard | Treasurer | 5 | $0 |
| Sydney Scott | Director | 5 | $0 |
| Nick Florescu | Director | 5 | $0 |
| Stuart Ford | Director | 5 | $0 |
| Jennifer Mcsorley | Director | 5 | $0 |
| Jackie Grant | Director | 5 | $0 |
| Arlene Levy | Lifetime Dir. | 5 | $0 |
| Darrell Rosenthal | Treasurer | 5 | $0 |
| Chaille Hutcheson | 1st Vice Chair | 5 | $0 |
| Juli Hall | Founder | 5 | $0 |
| Robert Wisner | Chairman | 15 | $0 |
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