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The first three to five years of every child’s life have the most profound impact on their health, development and ultimate success in school and the workforce. Every year, an estimated 44% of all Brown County newborns go home to at-risk environments. We need to proactively take action to help every baby have the best possible start in life, and give struggling families hope and the tools to succeed. Otherwise, direct costs to children and our community will continue to increase.
The Community Partnership for Children (CPC) is a "community change initiative" coordinated by the Brown County United Way.
The vision of the CPC is to ensure that all of our children are safe, healthy and enter school prepared to learn and thrive. To accomplish this, the United Way is coordinating community efforts and leveraging resources to:
- Reduce child abuse and neglect
- Improve child health
- Increase kindergarten readiness
- Strengthen families
This vision is being achieved through identifying families’ needs at the hospital, agencies working better together, strong community support, and creating a prevention-based, coordinated System of Care for children and their families.
As a part of this effort, a CPC Fund has been established at United Way to increase service capacity for three "gateway" System of Care elements (targeting children aged birth to five), which include:
- Welcome Baby visits, parenting newsletters, resource guides and growth charts for parents prenatally and at Brown County hospitals
- Follow-up assistance and direct referrals to the full spectrum of community resources for families who need extra help
- Ramping up the availability of voluntary in-home visits and parenting support classes within existing local agencies
Through the Community Partnership for Children, people from all sectors of Brown County are working cooperatively to improve how all children and their families receive the help and information they need – right from the start.
The end results will be stronger families, thriving children, and, over the long term, an improved future workforce and economy.
For more information or to donate to the CPC Fund, contact Sarah Inman at sarah@browncountyunitedway.org.
Links:
Executive Committee, Leadership Council, Funders and Human Service Partners