CORE is the national nonprofit organization of residential education programs for economically and socially disadvantaged youth. We believe residential education - boarding schools and children's homes - should be added to the scarce options available to these children, their families, and our communities.

For decades our society has grappled unsuccessfully with how to transform young people scarred by homelessness, foster care, abuse, and neglect into adults with meaning and purpose in their lives. For many, a residential school or children's home serves as the only genuine home they've known, providing stability, love, structure, a quality education, and the vision of - and ability to achieve - a productive future.