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State Coordinator: Gregory Ryan

The Connecticut Assets Network (CAN) connects youth, adults and communities with asset-based approaches to building healthy and inclusive neighborhoods, schools and communities. Asset-based approaches to community development build on individual and community strengths, and recognize people of all ages as problem solvers rather than problems to be solved. The key to this process is developing relationships where people discover their gifts, talents, and capacities for mutually beneficial problem-solving.