Newsletter | Fall 2019
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KEY INSIGHTS
Driving the Work to Improve Outcomes for Youth

Over the past year, leaders from across the community have worked to re-convene and recommit to the ACYI Partnership. To reinvigorate the  Community Leaders Council (CLC) , a steering committee was formed. This committee consists of sixteen leaders who drive the mission, vision, and strategy of the ACYI Partnership, and hold the larger CLC accountable to moving Cradle to Career Outcomes on behalf of youth. Below are key insights from members of the CLC Steering Committee and what this journey has entailed, and what is on the horizon.
Meet the CLC Steering Committee


Reflections from the CLC Steering Committee
What has been the biggest accomplishment within the ACYI Partnership over the last year since the Cradle to Career Leadership Summit?



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An Authentically Reinvigorated Leadership Table

Communities cannot thrive with individual entities working in silos, and the power in numbers becomes even stronger when cross-sector entities are working collectively to make major, authentic change

But it's not enough to come together. A collective impact model does not, will not sustain without collective leadership driving the effort. This type of social movement requires key leaders to own the outcomes and fully support collective impact.

Last summer, a group of leaders from across the community gathered together to convene a Cradle to Career Leadership summit to strategize: how do we re-energize and give leaders an opportunity to recommit to this work?

This is a simple principle: Those who care about a community's youth - from parents to educators to civic leaders and local employers - can accomplish more by working together than by working apart, and by collectively driving these efforts as leaders.  In the year since the summit, leaders across the community have stepped up to reinvigorate the  Community Leaders Council (CLC).


PARTNERSHIP PRIORITIES
Priorities Established by the CLC Steering Committee
2020 and Beyond

In June, the Community Leaders Council (CLC) Steering Committee met to set the Priorities for the ACYI Partnership for the years 2020 and beyond. 
What differs from the work many have to do in developing strategic priorities, is that we don't have to determine them from scratch.  In fact, a roadmap already exists for this work.

ACYI's national affiliate, StriveTogether, has a roadmap for the ACYI Partnership, that they call their Theory of Action. The Theory of Action essentially provides a guide for what's needed for communities to successfully improve cradle to career outcomes on behalf of youth.   READ MORE


 

For more information about the ACYI Partnership Priorities, contact Becky Hoffman, ACYI CEO .
Policy and Legislative Advisory Network (PLAN)
Supporting Policy and Advocacy Across the ACYI Partnership
Pictured here: The ACYI Community Leaders Council works to drive the work of the ACYI Partnership to improve Cradle to Career Outcomes for youth.

One of the key priorities of the ACYI Partnership in 2020 will be to conduct a landscape analysis of the local, state, and national organizational and public policies impacting Cradle to Career Outcomes.

The Partnership is clear that it cannot change systems without aligning policy to improve Cradle to Career Outcomes, and has onboarded a champion to support this work: Matt LaCrue, Associate Managing Director at Dentons Matt will support the Partnership to engage in three key areas related to policy and advocacy:  Education, Advocacy and  Awareness.

To support this work around policy and advocacy, the ACYI Partnership is launching a Policy and Legislative Advisory Network (PLAN). READ MORE

Investing partners are invited to join the committee or nominate a representative from their organization - submit nominations to the ACYI team.
 
For more information about the PLAN, contact Ashley Edinger, ACYI Manager of Sustainability.

 THE STATUS OF OUR YOUTH
Youth Opportunity Atlas
A New Online Data Book

The ACYI Partnership will be launching a regional, online data book on the status of youth in Adams and Broomfield Counties.  This data book will provide the state of the well-being of children in Adams and Broomfield Counties, mapping the outcomes of children and youth by school district, municipality, and legislative district.

The launch of this data book was inspired by the Denver Office of Children's Affair's annual Status of Denver's Children Community Resource Guide, and will help support the
connection of community level indicators not only by disaggregating the data through an equity lens, and provide geographic analysis of where the largest gaps are.

For more information about the Youth Opportunity Atlas, contact Kelsey Murphy, ACYI's Senior Director of Evidence Based Strategy.

 ENGAGE IN THIS WORK
Join the Movement
Engage in the Work of the ACYI Partnership

Align so that youth succeed. We invite you to engage in or further engage in the ACYI Partnership. Together, we can help youth excel. Because when ALL youth succeed, our community succeeds.

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