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Community Partnerships for Neighborhood Success: Understanding, Engaging, and Growing Together

Explore the dynamics of partner neighborhoods and how understanding the community can lead to successful collaborations and positive outcomes for youth. Learn about defining features, system perspectives, and local support to build stronger communities. Delve into key aspects like community readiness, population demographics, historical perspectives, and data-driven decision-making. Discover how neighborhoods and public systems can work together for the betterment of all.

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Community Partnerships for Neighborhood Success: Understanding, Engaging, and Growing Together

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  1. Understanding Partner Neighborhoods

  2. Getting to know our partner Neighborhoods Neighborhood names here Evidence2Success Community Board Orientation

  3. What We All Want for Youth Prepared for Success Ready to Learn Healthy Development Photos: Jason Miczek (Left, Right), Carol Highsmith (Center)

  4. Defining a Community or Neighborhood How do you define your neighborhood or community? • Geographical boundaries? • Schools? • Landmarks? • Population? • State of mind or shared sense of identity? • History? • Future? How do others who live there define it?

  5. What May Make Partner Neighborhoods a Good Fit From System Perspective • Community readiness: shared priorities, existing organizing efforts, history of successful collaboration and use of data. • Need (e.g., poverty) • Reasonable population size (not too small or too large, e.g. 10,000–30,000 and significant proportion of children under age 18) • Significant public system involvement (e.g., foster care) • A middle and elementary school tied to neighborhood for programming

  6. From the Community’s Perspective? • Demographics • Needs and Strengths • Public System Expenditures • Other Data • Historical Perspective • Population Shifts and Migration Patterns • Relationship with Public Systems • Existing Initiatives • Experience with Data • What else?

  7. <Insert Neighborhood Name> and Its Children

  8. Local Support for Key Concepts Community readiness rests on: • shared priorities • partnership efforts: patterns of collaboration • data guiding decisions

  9. Concluding Questions • What opportunities do you see for strengthening this neighborhood/community’s engagement in Evidence2Success? • What challenges do you see? • What excites you? • What, if anything, do you need to know more about? • Next steps?

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