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AUSTIN COMING TOGETHER

October 26, 2016

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INTRODUCTION | PAGE 3 THRIVE 2025 AGENDA & TEN YEAR GOALS PAGE 45 | MEMBER SPOTLIGHT: WEST SIDE HEALTH AUTHORITY PAGE 7

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Austin Weekly News, October 26, 2016

“Thank You” from Austin Coming Together ACT BOARD OF DIRECTORS Officers

Sharif Walker, Chair Program Director, After School Matters

Jacob Lesniewski, Secretary

Assistant Professor, Dominican University Graduate School of Social Work

Ruth Kimble, Vice-Chair

Jack Macnamara, Treasurer

Executive Director, Austin Childcare Provider’s Network

Visiting Scholar, Center For Urban Research And Learning

Directors Reverend Reginald E. Bachus

Sharon Morgan

Pastor, Friendship Baptist Church

Director, Graduate Support & Community Outreach, Catalyst Schools, Circle Rock Charter

Dawn Ferencak Associate Publisher, Austin Weekly News

Mildred Wiley

Tenisha Jones

Community Organizer, Institute for Nonviolence Chicago (Founding Board Chair)

Director of Education, Greater Auburn Gresham Development Corp

Reginald Little

Deborah Williams Senior Consultant, DW Provision Consulting Services

Consumer Loan Officer, ABC Bank

Larry Williams Broker, State Farm Insurance

ACT Member Organizations Academy of Scholastic Achievement American Red Cross ABC Bank

Circle Urban Ministries

KIPP Create

Community Bank of Oak Park River Forest

Literacy Works

Sarah’s Inn

Loretto Hospital

St. Anthony’s Hospital

Manufacturing Renaissance

St. Leonard’s Ministries

Mary Shyrese Daycare

Teach for America

Christ the King Jesuit College Prep

Austin Childcare Providers’ Network

Dominican University

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Erikson Institute

Banner Schools Be Strong Families

First Institute Training and Management

Because I Care

Friendship Baptist Church

BUILD, Inc.

Friendship Community Development Corporation

By the Hand Club Channing’s Child Care Chicago Community Loan Fund

First United Church of Oak Park Gone Again Travel I.C. Stars

Central Austin Neighborhood Association

Inspiration Corporation

Chicago Children’s Choir

Institute for Nonviolence Chicago

Chicago Jesuit Academy

Jane Addams Resource Corporation

ChildServ Church on the Block

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Mead Communications

The Cara Program

Mercy Housing Lakefront

The Catalyst Schools

Moving Everest Charter School

The Law Project

New Moms

The McCormick Center for Early Childhood Leadership

Oak Park River Forest Food Pantry

The Peace Corner Youth Center

Oak Park Regional Housing Center

Valerie Leonard Inc.

Positive Attitudes, Inc.

Westside Health Authority

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Pyramid Players Productions

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Prevention Partnership

Youth Guidance

Project Exploration Rape Victim Advocates Safer Foundation

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Austin Weekly News, October 26, 2016

IN T ROD U CTION

Welcome to Austin

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ver the past 6 years, Austin Coming Together (ACT) has grown from a small network of 20 member organizations, to over 70 organizations that are committed to building a thriving Austin community. ACT’s membership includes organizations from Austin, like the Westside Health Authority and the Austin Childcare Providers’ Network, local churches like Friendship Baptist and Church on the Block, and other groups that help to bring resources to Austin’s families and institutions, like universities and larger social service agencies. Our mission is to convene and coordinate all of our members, so that together, we can increase our collective impact on EDUCATION and ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT outcomes in the Austin community.

This year we have been hard at work with our members to kick off our “THRIVE 2025”Agenda, a long-term plan for community development in Austin. As you will see on the following pages, we’ve set ambitious goals that we plan to achieve over the next ten years. From now until 2025, we will coordinate our members and attract resources towards achieving these goals. Additionally, ACT will engage the community in planning and organizing activities, and we will provide quarterly updates on our progress of the THRIVE 2025 Agenda through these Austin Weekly News special sections.

Join us along the way to hold ACT and our members accountable and to build power in the Austin community so that we can achieve great things together.

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Thrive 2025 Goals Quality Early Learning Children who have stable, nurturing environments from birth to age 5 are much more likely to do well in school and in life. Thus, we as a community need to invest in those who care for and teach them (parents, grandparents, childcare providers, teachers, etc.).

ACT estimates that our network will need to provide 3,900 high quality, accessible childcare and preschool slots for Austin’s children, birth to age 5, by 2025. In order to do this we need to ensure that childcare, preschool, and other supports are affordable and accessible for all parents in Austin. We must also ensure that child care providers, teachers, and other service providers receive the training they need to provide quality care and that they receive fair and decent wages for their work.

Living Wage Careers Parents with living wage careers are more likely to provide stable environments for their families. Furthermore, young people with jobs are less likely to end up in the streets. That is why we need to create viable pathways to living wage careers for our community members.

ACT estimates that our network can prepare and place 500 people per year in good jobs by the year 2025. While our network does not currently have this capacity, we can achieve this goal by working together, attracting more public and private resources, and organizing to end discrimination against our community members in the work force.

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Safe Neighborhoods Safe neighborhoods begin with strong and healthy relationships between neighbors, especially between young people and adults. Neighbors who know and trust each other can more effectively solve safety problems, hold each other accountable, and resolve conflicts when they arise. Strong neighborhood relations can also decrease reliance on the police and create a stronger sense of unity and pride in the community.

By the year 2025, ACT and our network will support daily gatherings between neighbors to build relationships with young people, heal from trauma, and solve problems. ACT and our members will build our capacity to create safe community spaces where neighbors of all ages can congregate, talk to each other, and resolve conflicts.

Stable Housing Market Over the past ten years, foreclosure and abandonment have hit Austin’s housing market hard. Without a stable environment for current owners and new homebuyers, Austin’s population has declined significantly over the past 10 years.

Neighborhoods need continuing investment in housing by homeowners and a steady stream of new homebuyers to stabilize the market and By the year 2025, ACT and our network will stabilize ownership of 400 residential properties in Austin. This must be done through a combination of efforts, including acquiring and rehabbing vacant buildings for homeownership, supporting homeowners to make investments in their properties, and to market Austin neighborhoods as viable, affordable options for new homebuyers.

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Fall Kick Off: Good Neighbor Campaign

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Bell says that building neighborhood connections as a method of fighting violence was an idea that came from the surveys of residents of Austin. “The majority of people we talked with talked about a time they felt connected with their neighbors. They don’t feel that way now. We want to connect residents with shared goals and values. For most people, this overwhelmingly means supporting the youth.”

Building off the African proverb that it takes a village to raise a child, for the past twenty years, WHA has been working on the Every Block a Village model. Bell says that one of the keys to the Good Neighbor Campaign will be expanding the Every Block a Village model into more neighborhoods in mid Pastor Steve Epting and south Austin.

Good Neighbor Epting agrees that everyone inCampaign planning volved in the Good Neighbor Camcoordinator paign, from organization leaders to residents, sees the youth of the community as a focal point.

“A main focus is opportunities for youth from civics, arts and culture to jobs. We want groups to use their skill sets to get involved. We want to create jobs. All of our opportunities will be about supporting our youth and lifting them up.”

A second part of the Good Neighbor Campaign is the Church Connection. Churches will be encouraged to come out from behind their walls and engage in outreach in the blocks surrounding their buildings. Bell says that efforts by churches will include linking youth with seniors through service opportunities and working to reclaim abandoned buildings near churches that may have become drug havens.

A third piece of the puzzle is the Community Pride Campaign. Building on ACT’s summer work promoting the I Love Austin message throughout the community, the Community Pride Campaign will use yard signs and mural projects to promote the message of being a good neighbor.

Epting says that while the program is just being kickstarted, he sees the possibility for long-term success. “The are Campaign YOU ready?

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hanging a neighborhood for the better means taking the small steps that will, when taken together, become the large effort that brings positive change for a community. On October 25, the Westside Health Authority (WHA) along with several other organizations in Austin kicked off the Good Neighbor Campaign to bring positive change to Austin.

WHA’s Quiwana Bell says the Good Neighbor Campaign involves a coalition of different groups in Austin. From grass roots organizations to churches to youth organiza-

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