California Cradle to Career Coalition

11/11/2022

Public sector adoption creates meaningful and lasting change.

09/28/2022

When Liz Dozier arrived at Fenger High School, it felt like someone had dimmed the lights. At the time, it was known as one of most violent and underperforming schools in Chicago. During Dozier’s first year as principal, 300 arrests happened in the building. The school’s drop-out rate was 20%, a...

06/30/2022

It truly takes a village y’all! THANK YOU California Governor, Assemblymember Mia Bonta, State Senator Nancy Skinner, Speaker Anthony Rendon, Phil Ting, Senator Sydney Kamlager, Dr. Joaquin Arambula , Senator Susan Talamantes Eggman, Toni G. Atkins, and everyone who advocated with us this legislative season!

The state’s historic, first-time ever investment in Promise Neighborhoods will help sustain a civic infrastructure that has been here for about a decade. It will provide thousands of families and children from before birth through college and career. We will create vibrant & resilient communities where kids succeed in schools and families move out of poverty. This is the start of something great! End Child Poverty CA

05/05/2022

💥The Appropriations Support Letter is now LIVE for (Assemblymember Mia Bonta) act!

📢Please SHARE WIDELY with your networks so we can some signatures by Tuesday, May 10th @ 4pm. It really takes a village - & we need your support!

💛Sign on: https://forms.gle/7Lfhhus13F1vPL3v7

End Child Poverty CA Mission Economic Development Agency (MEDA) Cradle to Career Fresno Hayward Promise Neighborhoods StriveTogether Assemblymember Eloise Gómez Reyes Marin Promise Partnership SBCS

04/28/2022

04/28/2022

🌈✨Highlight of our week? Seeing beautiful community networks in ACTION at the State Capital!

❤️THANK YOU to everyone who showed up to support our communities!❤️

✅ Act PASSED out of Asm. Human Services Comm. w/ a vote of 7-0.
🛑Next stop: Appropriations!

Assemblymember Mia Bonta Mission Economic Development Agency (MEDA) StriveTogether Cradle to Career Fresno Hayward Promise Neighborhoods End Child Poverty CA

04/27/2022

🏡 Act (Assemblymember Mia Bonta) PASSED out of Asm. Human Services Committee 7-0!

💛THANK YOU chair Assemblymember Lisa Calderon, honorable members of the committee, & our communities for supporting investments in networks with a strong track record of uplifting low-income communities & advancing racial equity!💛

03/25/2022

We are SOOOO excited to be together with community members and partners today! If funding for promise neighborhoods & cradle to career networks goes away, community power crumbles.

We aren’t going to let that happen! The It Takes A Village Act will keep the community power going. Let’s do it together!

➡️Get there: Oakland! 3pm! TODAY (Friday, March 25)! At YOUTH Uprising!

RSVP: https://fb.me/e/32rLr8NL0

02/24/2022

📢RELEASE: Assemblymember Mia Bonta Champions Grant Program to Expand Coordinated Neighborhood & Community Services Networks❤️

is a partnership w/ GRACE, End Child Poverty CA, California Promise Neighborhood Network, California Cradle to Career Coalition, & StriveTogether

“The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated child poverty and racial and economic disparities,” said Assemblymember Mia Bonta. “By ensuring coordinated investments in services and supports, [this bill] will expand California’s capacity to challenge poverty, address disparities, and provide support for children and their families from cradle to career.”

🔗https://einpresswire.com/.../assemblymember-mia-bonta...

01/26/2022

ICYMI‼️ A wrap up of yesterday's beautiful virtual event, below -

Beautiful start to the new year! It Takes a Village Virtual Kick-Off Event to with with our wonderful Assemblymember Mia Bonta and Leader Assemblymember Eloise Gómez Reyes and the California Cradle to Career Coalition.
🎥You can watch it here: https://www.facebook.com/EndChildPovCA/videos/309140577901838

From, End Child Poverty CA, Shimica Gaskins, “​The California Cradle to Career Coalition is proud to be co-sponsoring It Takes A Village Act, which will establish the California Coordinated Neighborhood and Community Services Grant program, to secure funding to implement new and strengthen existing cradle-to-career networks to enable more communities across California to benefit from their services.”

Remember all our children should be
❤Healthy
❤Fed
❤Housed

Assemblymember Mia Bonta champions, “The evidence is clear…working class families and people of color benefit when we take a coordinated place-based approach to a delivery of services that are vital to ensure that we have a thriving community every day.”

Leader Eloise Gomez-Reyes says, “If we want to achieve our shared goal of lifting families out of poverty, we need to empower these networks to align their missions and work together for social change.”

This Kick-Off Event helps bring power to the It Takes A Village Act which will establish California’s first coordinated neighborhood and community services grant program to secure funding to implement new and strengthen existing Cradle 2 Career networks and communities across California.