Community Partners Issue Status Report on
Programs that Help Area Youth

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Rochester, NY- In an effort to significantly improve the future of children in our community, the City of Rochester; Monroe County; United Way of Greater Rochester, Rochester Area Community Foundation and the Rochester City School District have released a detailed report that looks at programs that reach this population. The "Community Status Report on Children" inventories home visitation, early care and education, and after-school programs — key strategies to benefit Rochester's children. It also establishes a baseline measure of how many children these programs currently serve, current funders, and projections of the dollars needed to reach service goals.

The research was done by The Center for Governmental Research and The Children's Agenda. The "Community Status Report on Children" follows the release last year of The Children's Agenda's "2010 Community Action Plan for Greater Rochester's Children," which recommended three goals to be attained by 2015 in order to improve outcomes for Rochester's children and youth. Those goals are:
• Expanding the Nurse Family Partnership to serve 1,000 families;
• Increasing by 20 percent the number of children in quality child care; and
• Offering high quality, effective after-school programming to 25 percent of Rochester's youth.

The "Community Status Report on Children" determines the level of community need for these programs, the resources currently invested for the three areas and what other resources would be needed to reach these goals.

For specific questions regarding the study, please contact: Don Pryor at Center for Governmental Research, 585-327-7054.

For questions regarding the "2010 Community Action Plan for Greater Rochester's Children," please contact: Michelle Yale at The Children's Agenda, 585-256-2620.