Staying true to the vision many also just knowing and effectively engage wg our students and clients and families. I think we were impressed in visiting the harlem childrens zone, no matter how you enter the childrens zone, whether it an after School Program or social work service or you join one of their charter schools, once you are in, there is a stickiness, there is an embrace, we are going followup with you, we are not going to let you get away. Weve captured you and you are part of us now maybe there are some procedures and more importantly we get to know who you are and we make sure that you are successful. By linking our School Districts we have more boot on the ground to develop that embrace and to make sure we are making it through the system. We are looking at challenges of Research Base of allocating funding and working how to work more effectively. We just want to bring some of those details and ideas and any questions you may have we are welcome to it. Are there any quest
Think all members are learning to under and work across organizational cultures, expertiseings policies and practices. We all do things somewhat differently and have policy regulatory guidelines and different compliance issues as well as aspirational issues at times and those are important for us to learn how to blend. Thats the human sides and the developing of contract and mous. These are legal things and developing accountability. Sharing data which was raised earlier. Identifying meaningful indicators and our prep for this meeting, someone was telling us what you are interested and one is do we have the most ul indicators for everything in the city, do we have the full meaningful set of indicators and that we can connect directly to Health Services whether their city, cbo and schools touch the lifes of the children and family and showing compliance at the same time staying true to the vision many also just knowing and effectively engage wg our students and clients and families. I t
To develop this proposal that is really about integrating federal funds both from the department of education, from hud, from doj, you make the it. They are all working in the same way that we are trying to collaborate on the ground, they are trying to do the same thing at the federal agencies level in these communities that are in high poverty. So they will be working on improving Affordable Housing and improving educational opportunities. Part of the it is like working on the ground with organizations to cut the red tape to facilities working with federal programs. Actually on the ground, supervisor in those communities to navigate both the regulatory and bureaucratic barriers and access to fund. It a designation and not tied to any specific money. But you will receive a designation as a promised zone which gives you some benefits and future application. They are going to designate over the communities in those 4 years and there will be about 5. This will be tax incentives to build i
A little bit of money from hud, cdfi and the department of labor and we are bringing those funds together and taking them to the next level to our own programs. Here, i wont run through all of our amazing partners doing great work, but we have about 26 partners. I think almost every city agency has signed on. City college, the universities is here. We have an amazing set of partners doing great work that we look to collaborating with going forward. These are the results that we are trying to achieve. And so there is a set of 15 indicators from department of education that we have provided a baseline for and that we will be, we set target for over the course of the 5 years and thats part of our reporting to the department will be on progress in moving the needle towards our goals on those indicators with the ultimate goal that making sure kids are ready for school, graduate from high school and enter into college and their families have what they need to succeed. A brief update on where
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Berkeley County Schools student Melanie Jimmerson, left, WVU Medicine s Dana DeJarnett, dietician Jennifer Miller and Department of Agriculture s Nathan Bergdoll hand out vegetables and fruit at Potomack Intermediate on July 13 in Martinsville as part of the kids farmers markets for summer programming.
Photo by Jessica Wilt/The Journal via AP Kids farmers markets connect students with fresh produce
By JESSICA WILT |
The Journal Jul 19, 2021
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Berkeley County Schools student Melanie Jimmerson, left, WVU Medicine s Dana DeJarnett, dietician Jennifer Miller and Department of Agriculture s Nathan Bergdoll hand out vegetables and fruit at Potomack Intermediate on July 13 in Martinsville as part of the kids farmers markets for summer programming.