CCEF is a 501(c) (3) organization based in Beaumont, Texas that provides new educational opportunities for at-risk young adults of incarcerated parents and parolees by providing scholarships and financial aid tuition cost to college, trade school and Associated Builders & Contractors Training Academy in Nederland, Texas. Our mission is to stop second generation crime for kids of the incarcerated to include the reduction of recidivism of parolees going back to prion. By providing the possibility of a better future, including academics, financial, legal and social success, we are able to empower these young men and women to change their lives. Our goal is to promote “Education versus Incarceration”.