Children enter school ready to learn. For too many children, this is too late. We also support affordable quality childcare for working parents. In addition, we assist efforts to prevent child abuse and neglect, so children can grow up in a healthy nurturing environment. We fund a variety of positive child development and family support services so our children can enter school ready to learn and be successful.
Children develop in order to achieve life s goals.
In total, the Community Care Fund help support academic improvement for over 300 youth. Sixty students at risk of failing, graduated high school. We know that prevention based strategies designed to support children and their families will pay long-term dividends. Programs funded in this priority area include tutoring, mentoring, after school programs, youth leadership development, and peer counseling. A primary focus is our partnership with the Greater Sacramento Mentoring Coalition to match 25,000 children with mentors over the next five years.