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Goal: The City is a desirable place for families to live and raise
their children; children and youth are prepared for a successful transition to
adulthood and are supported in their development, health and well being; and
families are supported in achieving these goals for their children.
Five-Year Focus:
- Support and expand childcare and parenting classes that promote family
stability, economic self-sufficiency and reduced childhood abuse and
neglect.
- Maintain and expand quality, affordable, safe and convenient childcare and
early education services for low-income families.
- Expand and maintain affordable recreation activities which break down the
social isolation faced by so many low-income families.
- Develop a system for expanded and coordinated outreach regarding family
events and programming in the City.
- Review fee bases and make sure City recreational programming is affordable
to all residents, with scholarships available.
- Expand employment and training opportunities for youth.
- Support and expand mentoring opportunities for youth.
- Support housing opportunities for youth living on their own.
- Support prevention programs for youth in the areas of AIDS, health, STDs,
drug and alcohol, pregnancy, suicide.
- Encourage strengthened programs to promote pregnancy prevention and
effective parenting skills.
- Encourage the development of more "place-based" education for
youth, including internships, work-study programs and community service
requirements.
- Encourage increased cooperation between higher education
and local schools by developing special college preparatory programs and
other opportunities for City students to take advantage of higher education
resources in the community.
- Encourage the development of enhanced dropout
reduction policies.
- Continue to participate in the Truancy Project.
- Support neighborhood based youth centers which provide a full range of
services including alternatives to adult recreation.
- Encourage more
diverse out-of-school activities and opportunities for youth.
- Encourage
the implementation of a civics curriculum in all City schools, and identify
community service and internship placements for students to participate in
civic affairs.
- Improve resources for unsupervised youth, especially
between the hours of 3 to 7 p.m.
- Increase youth participation in civic
and governmental activities.
- Support and expand early educational activities for at risk
pre-school children.
- Support literacy programs and libraries.
- Support the
America Reads program.
- Encourage stronger linkages between schools and
community centers.
- Maintain education opportunities which provide links to
the workforce including ESL classes, GED and Adult Diploma opportunities and
vocational education opportunities.
- Expand the use of community schools to
provide a broader range of services for the community.
- Encourage community
services to locate in close proximity to schools.
- Support the development of
a Regional Technical High School.
- Encourage increased parental involvement in
their children's education.
Page last updated May 13, 2003
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