Family-Centered Community Change

We are partnering with community development initiatives in Buffalo, New York, Columbus, Ohio, and San Antonio, Texas, to improve the quality of schools for kids and build job and parenting skills for the adults in thier lives. Among other programs, the Foundation supports:

• Buffalo’s two-generation Parent Achievement Zone, which offers an integrative set of programs for caregivers and children — including counseling for parents to help them set personal and family goals.
• Columbus’s Weinland Park Collaborative, a partnership of public, nonprofit, philanthropic, civic and educational organizations and businesses that supports housing, public safety, education, employment, health, youth development and resident engagement.
• San Antonio’s Dual Generation Initiative, which includes a wide range of public and private partners working to improve children’s healthy development, growth and education.

Providing grants, staff support and consulting to established local initiatives that are improving outcomes and conditions for kids and families in high-poverty neighborhoods by:

• connecting the programs and services supporting kids’ health and academic success with those helping their parents find and keep a job, achieve financial stability and bolster their parenting skills.
• involving parents and other residents in efforts to improve education, access to jobs and training, housing or other community changes.
• integrating data from multiple sources — such as social service agencies or housing providers — to better evaluate child and family well-being.

Incorporating Two-Generation Approaches in Community Change explores how trends in housing, the economy, transportation, schools, early childhood education and child care affect people in FCCC communities and impact partners' work.

"Fostering Racial and Ethnic Equity and Inclusion" examines how FCCC partners confronted historic inequity and exclusion facing people of color in their communities and the lessons they learned.

Supporting Families, Strengthening Neighborhoods reviews the Casey Foundation’s experiences and contributions as an investor in FCCC and summarizes what the participating communities learned about using a two-generation approach to working with children and parents.

The Report to the Weinland Park And Greater Columbus Communities summarizes the progress of the Weinland Park Collaborative and its partners in 2018.