The Childrens Initiative

Community safety: increase community safety and healthy families by developing and strengthening positive prevention and intervention strategies, programs and policies. Convene local stakeholders and national experts to improve our systems of care by incorporating best practices in policies, programs and service delivery. We work with government entities and community providers to ensure youth and families receive supportive services that promote positive youth development, strong families and safe communities. To prevent and respond to child abuse and neglect, we facilitate The county board of supervisor child and family strengthening advisory to support and develop crosssector collaboration in The child welfare system to ensure The safety and wellbeing of children and families.

Community health: develop and produce The live well san diego report card on children, families, and community. The report card presents trend data of 25 health and well being indicators for children, youth and families that together present a snapshot The health of san diego children. In addition, The report card provides nationally recognized best practices in prevention/intervention and recommendations for specific actions for improvement in san diego county. The Initiative also facilitates The childhood injury prevention program providing trainings for parents and childcare providers on injury prevention strategies to make homes and communities safer and healthier for young children. This program provides low income parents and families with home safety kits, health/safety resources and other safety equipment.

Education: in collaboration with The san diego county office of education and san diego county local school districts, The Initiative provides leadership and oversight to The san diego county expanded learning consortium, supporting expanded learning (before, after and summer school) programs by providing: professional development, technical assistance and supplies/ resources. To further support education, The Initiative implements The scaling reading success program, which is an evidence based program that utilizes experienced adults (55 years old+) to provide literacy tutoring to k3 students significantly reading below grade level.