Over fifty percent of these students are from families currently receiving welfare. We are offering the CDI program to their parents, as well. In each household positive attitude changes will actualize productive employment opportunities and career dreams for the whole family. We are closely monitoring the results to take to schools and to the welfare and unemployment departments of the federal, state and local governments. Our program was initiated as a pilot in the fall of '95 at Marymount University in Arlington, Virginia.
Student responses to the program are available.
The CDI system is now being taught as an integral part of an accredited course which commenced in the fall of 1996 at Marymount University. Gregory Braendel, the President and founder of CDI, was the keynote speaker for the Human Resource Symposium for the Intelligence Community in Washington, D.C. in the Spring of 1995. This year there are 216 students involved. Greg Braendel was featured in a 7-page article in the April,1989 tenth anniversary issue of Inc. Magazine . He has also written an article for Inc. Magazine , June '94, about a very successful manufacturing business he started with friends who possessed no prior experience in this field.