Carpinteria United for Children
The primary focus of Carpinteria United for Children is on the early and ongoing investment in improving the lives of our children and their families, from prenatal, sustained throughout their educational careers.
Carpinteria United for Children will provide a continuum of existing and new collaborative resources and services. Neighborhoods and community schools will partner to rally around children and their families to ensure optimal education, health, safety, and stability. Children will be equipped with the tools to pursue their chosen life path after high-school--college or career.
Carpinteria Embraces POPI
Community leaders in Carpinteria have enthusiastically expressed a desire to play an active role in raising successful students, and are eager to be involved in this planned, goal-oriented process.
Carpinteria United for Children will be a true, working partnership between the Carpinteria Unified School District and a United Way managed collaboration that will include partners from business, government, non-profits, volunteers, civic groups, and others. At the core of this partnership are children and their families.
Success in Other Communities
Community leaders have visited and interviewed with the best practice communities of Harlem Children's Zone (New York, NY), Lennox Safe School Alliance (Los Angeles, CA), Schools of Hope (Madison, WI), and other proven, evidence-based Santa Barbara County Programs.
Carpinteria United for Children will integrate elements of these models to make sure that our children are ready to learn on the first day of kindergarten and everyday thereafter.
Results
According to the California Department of Education, in 2008, only 22% of high-school graduates in the CUSD were eligible to attend college or university.
In Lennox, CA, right next door to LAX, 86% of high-school graduates were eligible to attend college or university, due to the continuum of service provided through the Lennox Safe School Alliance.
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The Seniors Neighborhood Project
The Seniors Neighborhood Project will keep seniors healthy, happy, and independent with services focusing on the whole person. The project will integrate key resources in order to give seniors better access to wellness activities and transportation, and to social, cultural, and special events. Coordinated programs will provide assistance with household taks and services, grocery shopping, and meal preparation.
The Seniors Neighborhood Project will be a consumer developed one-stop shop for coordinating a variety of services and supports to keep seniors and their families independent--to remain in their homes, actively engaged in their neighborhoods and communities, and continuing a lifestyle they love.
Success in Other Communities
As with Carpinteria United for Children, United Way will manage an active collaboration that will include partners from business, government, education, nonprofits, volunteers, civic groups, and others. At the core of this partnership are seniors, families, and their neighbors.
Beacon Hill Village (Boston, MA) and other virtual villages around the country, Neighbors Care Alliance (Tuscan, AZ), and other proven, evidence-based Santa Barbara County programs are being studied for best practices that might be adopted and integrated to successfully keep seniors independent.
Results
In Tucson, 78% of participants said that the integrated efforts of the Neighbors Care Alliance helped them stay in their homes longer with a greater sense of safety and security.
We have the power to create this change in our south coast communities! |
