Theaters, our businesses in our offices. In the only thing consistent and all of them is the guns. I would like to introduce one of our cosponsors of the legislation we hope to introduce a lot with the house of representatives, the senior senator from the greek state of connecticut going the great state of connecticut going through a difficult time. Thank you. Let me first thank you for your leadership going back to 1993 and before when i was speaking to advocate in the state of connecticut a similar law to the one adopted here banning assault weapons. This has been a heroin, terrific week in the state of connecticut, culminating in todays moment of silence at 9 30. The end of the week and i spent the better part of the time meeting with first responders, families, going to funerals and wakes and speaking with ordinary people of newtown and the state of connecticut. The refrain i have heard over and over again from newtown and connecticut and all the run the country is you need to do s
Valuation and our John Gardener team is here, maria who is a researcher and monica lopez and laurel is here. This you thank you for coming ladies. I may call you if you have more to talk about. This is really an outcome driven data driven and outcome driven project. As you know our services are required by doe to be evidence based. We have established the common indicators and outcomes and now we are working with our Partner Agencies to ultimately ensure that we are all working in achieving what we said we were going to achieve. We partnered with stanford who has been working already with the School District for several years and several other agencies to create a research and evaluation design. We are entering the muddy waters and scary waters of data sharing agreement and working on consent issues and we are just required by doe to get an irb clearance, individual rights review board. Well be conducting a survey in the spring to get at a lot of the data that you just cant get with th
There hasnt been that collaboration. Potentially, the thing is that there is a strong overlap, between 13,000 people they serve and our 7,000 and its so important that we make that connection and we incentivize working together. It not about working in silence anymore. These are challenging conversations where we are challenging the sector, nonprofit, School District and city departments and we want to engage in a positive way to really ensure that we are doing the best by our constituents. Thank you. Thank you and congratulations again on 40 years serving our city. I hope you are coming. I dont think commissioner mendoza is going to be able to make it. Before i turn it over to policy, maybe i will discuss briefly what louis skipped over is the promise zones. Thats what we are working on with various city agencies and commissioner mendoza and others to develop this proposal that is really about integrating federal funds both from the department of education, from hud, from doj, you mak
Brief update on where we are in implementation. We started back in january. Our organization was about 30 people, we are now upwards of 60. All to support the work that meta is doing, that Mission Promise neighborhood is doing. We spend a lot of time hiring, interviewing and compiling a great team that is working hard together. We have contract with our partners. We had a fantastic backpack give away at the high school with the mayors office. We had our launch where a lot of city leadership came out, leader pelosi came out and we had secretary donovan come out and we also had some leadership from doe come visit us. Our data team has been working hard on data discovery assessing the performance of or assessing Performance Measures for all our organizational partners and understanding how they collect data. Weve also been focused on building our collaborative. We do want to see this go beyond 5 years. We think it critical and weve engaged with cutf, with koretzsky, chase and we are build
Go into anyone of these sites you can enter into pipeline. Thats another way that we are looking at it. We are looking at what it means to be in a Community Hub and what are the logos and all that stuff so we can create that Community Within these organizations. I briefly touched on this family success coach that we talked about in harlem. These are meta staff that will be at these Community Hubs and really Service Ambassadors for the Mission Promise neighborhood. They are the connectors and work with families to further assess needs and goals with the Financial Capability lens and talking with our Partner Organizations and especially at the school site. We looked at, there are a lot of Services Available at the schools but the financial education, the financial coaching is something that they lack and so we feel this is a huge value to add to bring on site and their approach is around Building Trust around coaching and empowering families to meet their goals. So i will talk a little b