WHO WE ARE
PURPOSE:
Identifying, recruiting, training, and assisting volunteers to mentor people who are negatively impacted by social determinants.
VISION:
To work closely and in alliance with faith-based organizations, community-based citizens, secular businesses, governmental organizations, and law enforcement agencies; to provide necessary wrap-around services, to increase public safety, childhood advocacy, and overall personal well-being for all people.
MISSION:
To ameliorate marginalized communities while incorporating conflict resolution, trauma interventions, and peer-to-peer techniques of communication to improve public safety.
HISTORY
Churches Take A Corner (CTAC)
was founded in 1994
Since November 1, 1994, Churches Take A Corner (CTAC) was established as a statewide public safety, intervention, child advocacy, faith and community-based organization under the leadership of Pastor Tyrone C. Johnson, Sr.
CTAC was instrumental in igniting and engaging organizations to work together, regardless of being a church, mosque, or synagogue to reduce drug use caused by mental and physical abuse, as well as other activities that had a negative impact on our communities.
CTAC made history in the state of Delaware by becoming the first faith-based organization to refer over 1,700 people into recovery. Also, in 1997, partnering with Hanover Presbyterian Church, CTAC established the 1st neighborhood transitional rehabilitation house.
CTAC has shown measurable and proven results that have demonstrated increased public safety. In 2019, Pastor Johnson revived what was the initial public safety program “Peace On The Streets” as a solution for the amelioration of gun violence and anti-social behavior. In addition, Pastor Johnson created Healing Beyond Bullies and Bullets as a youth and neighborhood initiative.
Today, while churches, mosques, and synagogues are still the cornerstone of CTAC, we have developed relationships with law enforcement, educational entities, government agencies, community organizations, and private sectors. We are doing business as “Citizens Take A Corner”.