Envision a New York City neighborhood with clean streets and parks,
toddlers playing at home or at cheerful day care centers, children
and teenagers rushing to school doors, grandparents sitting on
house stoops exchanging stories, health care centers open 24 hours
a day and local banks, merchants, and service providers working
together to ensure the health, safety and economic stability of
families living in the neighborhood.
The Agenda for Children Tomorrow (ACT) helps neighborhoods realize
their visions.
ACT’s mission is to create and evaluate 10 community
district-based collaborative groups of health and social service
providers, consumers, and concerned others in order to create
services for children and families that are comprehensive, non-duplicative,
accessible, supportive of families’ needs and easy to use;
and to connect economic development, housing and employment decision-making
and resources to this network.
Recognizing that children’s development is economically,
physically, emotionally, and spiritually linked to the health
of a neighborhood, ACT helps each community rediscover its hidden
strengths and potential assets, and find its own solutions to
meet its own needs.
ACT brings together neighborhood residents, service providers,
community and business leaders and local government officials
in an alliance where all share the same goal: to make life better
for the neighborhood’s families and children.
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