Priority Strategies and Partners
Cincinnati and NKY Mentoring
Focus on increasing number of available qualified mentors to meet the needs of youth in Hamilton County, Covington and Newport through coordinated recruitment and training.
Convening Organizations: Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Cincinnati and Cincinnati Youth Collaborative
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Cincinnati School Based Resource Coordination
Community-school partnerships have the potential to raise student achievement and revitalize neighborhoods. According to the Coalition for Community Schools' publication Making the Difference: Research and Practice in Community Schools, which features evaluation findings from 20 community school models across the country - schools that serve as centers of community:
- improve student learning
- promote family involvement with students and schools
- increase school effectiveness and shared responsibility for results, and
- increase the vitality of entire communities
Community-school partnerships that are built to provide supports to students, families and communities can change the way many schools and community resources operate today. Community-school partnerships can help break down barriers and foster collaboration to maximize results for students, families, schools, and neighborhoods.
Convening Organization: Greater Cincinnati Foundation
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Cincinnati Out of School Youth
There is no single reason why students drop out of high school. A survey of young people who left high school without graduating suggest that, despite career aspirations that require education beyond high school and a majority having grades of C or better, circumstances in students' lives and an inadequate response to those circumstances from the schools led to dropping out.
Convening Organization: Cincinnati State and Connect2Success Collaborative
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Cincinnati Family Engagement
Family involvement is an essential element in the success of students and their schools. Parents cannot be relegated to the sidelines or seen as less important than "real educators."
Effective and wide-ranging family participation in the education of their children is one of the most important factors in a student’s success in schools and, correspondingly, a central characteristic of successful schools. Too frequently, however, schools and districts continue to face challenges that impede efforts to effectively advance parental involvement, especially for parents of students who have the greatest academic challenges and related needs.
Convening Organization: Hamilton County Educational Services Center
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Cincinnati Health and Wellness
Establishing new health services and developing wellness in schools.
What will we accomplish?
Optimal health for optimal learning. Establish a place for health care for the 22% of Hamilton county kids who do not have a medical home. 67% are eligible for free and reduced lunch. Health issues which result include dental care, poorly managed asthma, obesity, and other chronic diseases. Kids don't have access to care, and are forced to use the emergency room. Children are also being exposed to poor environmental issues such as high lead exposure.
Convening Organization: Growing Well Cincinnati
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Cincinnati and NKY Arts Education
Integration of the arts into school-based curriculum
What will we accomplish?
Accessibility and integration of advocay for arts. Greater access to deliver arts education during or after the school day. Greater coordination with afterschool programs. Students who are wellrounded and meet the requirments of colleges and universities who seek students with broad experiences.
Convening Organization: Fine Arts Fund
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Cincinnati and NKY After School Programs
Provide balanced program opportunities for youth and families around 9 essential elements.
What will we accomplish?
Children have access to community activities which increase student achievement, reduce risk taking behaviors. Provide balanced programming opportunities for youth and communities. Increase participation in supervised after school programs CincyAfterSchool will impact both academic and support outcomes.
Convening Organization: CincyAfterSchool
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Cincinnati Youth Employment
Convening Organization: Workforce Investment Board and Cincinnati City Council
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