HARLEM CHILDREN’S ZONE

Principle 1: Neighborhood-Based, At-Scale Approach

Principle 2: Best-Practice Pipeline The HCZ Pipeline, or continuum, of services provides children and families with a seamless series of free, coordinated, best-practice programs. We focus on the needs of children at every developmental stage with specific programs addressing pregnancy, infancy, early childhood, elementary school, middle school, adolescence, and college.

What’s Happening  November 9-10 Changing the Odds Conference  December 3 Formation of a Hartford Working Group and subsequent Task Forces for data collection, funding opportunities, and community building  January 7 Tour of the Harlem Children’s Zone  March 2 Neighborhood Selection Recommendations  TBD Promise Neighborhoods RFP

Who’s at the Table  Hartford Public Schools  City of Hartford  Community Based Organizations  Funding/Foundations  Policy/Research  Government  University Representatives