Our Results

Working in partnership with families, we have tackled intractable problems like teen pregnancy, child abuse and neglect, school dropout, and physical and mental health disparities, with implementation by the partners (School District, Health Department, DFCS, Advantage, et al.).

Working together, our partners have achieved remarkable results. For example:

• Teen pregnancy – after increasing annually for many years – began moving downward when our partners developed and implemented a comprehensive, holistic plan starting in 1992, and is now 42% lower.
• We pulled together our partners to strategize about truancy; within three years of implementation of the strategies, the number of students absent more than ten days had declined by 23%.
• Thanks in part to our welfare to work initiatives, led by the Departments of Family & Children Services and Labor, the traditional welfare rolls in our county declined by more than 95%.
• With the leadership of Public Health in collaboration with other partners, childhood immunization has increased by 15%.
• The percentage of babies born healthy (as defined by Public Health) is up by 31%.
• Child poverty is down by 12%.

The Future

Our success is our partners’ success – we bring them together, they develop and implement the strategies. Our most important partners are the families whose children are being served.

Please join with us through financial support and/or active participation to achieve our goal: All children will succeed in school and in life.