Our focuses include:

 

• Promoting equity in all of our community’s initiatives and institutions that serve children and families 

 

• Increasing early literacy and improving health outcomes, particularly for our County’s African-American babies 

 

• Increasing access to evidence-based home visiting and early interventions for our highest-need infants and toddlers

 

• Expanding access to high quality infant and toddler child care

 

• Guaranteeing every child the opportunity to attend at least 1 year of high quality Preschool

 

• Fostering equitable educational policies and practices by embedding Equity Fellows in Preschools and K-12 schools

 

• Promoting all students' attendance and reducing chronic absenteeism
   

• Expanding quality afterschool and summer learning opportunities
   

• Ensuring every child is reading well in 3rd grade

 

• Expanding high-school internship opportunities and career pathways
   

• Ensuring every high-school graduate has a plan to attend college or earn a credential after graduating from high school
   

• Driving up FAFSA completion

 

Our approach is:

• Create and leverage partnerships

• Promote best practices

• Foster equity by targeting sub-populations of children

• Gather data to drive good decisions