Goals

Key Strategies

Objectives

• Children enter school ready to learn

• Family home visitation programs - i.e. home instruction for parents of preschool youngsters (HIPPY)
• Quality early childhood development programs
• parent education programs
• Training and coaching for early childhood programs

• Increased number of child development centers seek advanced accreditation
• Number of children cognitively, socially and emotionally prepared to enter school increase
• Families participating in their children's early education increases

• Youth graduate from high school

• Tutoring
• College and career preparation services for middle and high school students - i.e. Youth Education Success (YES), Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA)
• Quality after school and youth development
• Parent engagement
• Mentoring
• Youth leadership

• Number of youth attending after school programs increase
• Youth attending after school programs improve their grades

• Children are mentally healthy

• Accessible and affordable child, family, group and play therapy
• Behavioral health programs
• Parent and adult volunteer awareness training about children's mental health issues
• Screenings and mental health assessments in alternative locations - i.e. health clinics; community, child development and after school centers

• Children benefit from therapeutic resources and services to improve their quality of life

• Youth will become volunteers

• Youth philanthropy
• Intergenerational volunteer opportunities
• Alternative Spring Break
• Service learning

• Youth involved in philanthropy activities increase
• Youth involved in volunteer and/or service learning projects increase
• Number and awareness of youth leadership programs increase
• percentage of youth that have at least one mentor before graduation increases