Why is the Calvert Crusade for Children Needed?
While Calvert County is blessed with good schools, dedicated child and family agencies and organizations, caring faith communities, beautiful countryside and an increasingly affluent population, there are still segments of the community where children and youth are at risk and families, independent of income level, are unable or unwilling to provide a positive growing-up experience for their children. In addition, because of its exurban and rural lifestyle, lack of community and recreational facilities, pockets of poverty where program and recreational costs to families are prohibitive, and lack of needed transportation, each lead to an insufficient availability of child and youth out-of-school activities, and lack of access to such activities even when they are available. With the change in economic status of Calvert County from a very low income household county to one of the highest household incomes in Maryland, formerly available federal and state grants for child and youth suppor
