Creighton Community Foundation

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“Creighton community foundation's (ccf) core program "community works" leverages neighborhood schools to support vibrant communities in the poorest parts of urban phoenix, where neighborhoods suffer from poverty- driven disadvantage and disengagement. In these neighborhoods, today's children will spend 91% of their lives between 0 and 18 years of age outside school hallways. Vibrant supportive communities today have a determinative influence on child outcomes, and tomorrow's neighborhoods. What does it take to change an isolated, disengaged community into one filled with adult supportive relationships and a community of hope and inspiration? We leverage best practices in community transformation, centered around relocation, redistribution, and reconciliation by embedding a school-connected worker in our poorest neighborhoods, living 7x24 in residence, working in child and community relationship, and building bridges with key community partners and resources. The change is here already.”

“Community works - outreach - gateway and excelencia school serve 97% title i children with a large mckinney vento population in neighborhoods of high need, in neighborhoods housing 18,000 people, with various systemic challenges such as limited walkability and lack of local resources. We provide restorative community practices designed to reinvigorate community identity and create community relationships for the purpose of generating greater child protective factors in our communities and neighborhoods. In 2018-2019 this included continued community contact, assembly of neighbors into youth-led/youth-supported community meetings to address health and safety issues, provisioning of community-accessible and community-attracting hot supplemental meal services after school hours (80,000 distributed est.), various recreational community events, and formal connection/communication with 780 neighborhood residents.”

“Community works - service - in partnership with various non-profits, school district resources, and service leadership students, provided many different services to meet needs, lift up the capacity of surrounding neighbors, and/or form relationships and engagement with surrounding community. This included the installation of 3 publicly accessible playgrounds, the execution of a love your block neighborhood beautification project in the gateway neighborhood, assistance with various neighborhood resident services and needs including job skill enrollment, 6 major neighborhood cleanup events, the youth-led painting of approximately 350 curb numbers to develop neighborhood identity, outreach to veterans, and the repair/improvement of 8 household structures and front yards with identified/demonstrated need.”

“Community works - child agency - in our mission to develop adult supportive relationships through restorative community practices, we also pursue self-agency in children, but teaching trauma-informed child-value, self-care, leadership, and community service principles. We developed a curriculum and worked with district children in in-school and after school. Activities included partnering with 22 organizations for volunteers, programs, funding, and research, building one 40 week trauma- informed developmental asset based curriculum for service leaders who care (leaders), engaging 120 students in in-school service leadership classes and/or extra-curricular clubs, influencing 400 students with curriculum, leading 68 middle school students into community service on their way to becoming community champions, and serving our community as a youth advisory board. The youth from this program consequently helped distribute over 120 tons of fresh produce into their communities over 10 distribution events, painted over 350 curb numbers, and carried out routine cleanup activities throughout their neighborhoods to further cultivate neighborhood identity and connection.”

“Direct support of creighton school district - while primarily operating community restorative practices, we also provide support to creighton school district for unfunded needs aligned with our community engagement and development focus, including district teacher thank you events, cross- school community building events, community communication, and similar activities in fiscal year 2016, this included support for welcome back event, and partnership in tax credit and student enrollment advertising throughout our communities. Special skill development programs - in addition to child agency, in 2017 in part through the generosity of cox charities, we implemented the first of specialized entrepreneurial and job skill training programs in the form of a large format printing youth media club, utilizing child-safe hp latex printing equipment. Program currently developing approximately 4 adults and 15 youth annually, with intention to yield revenue from customer/partner jobs in 2018, and formalize adult job skill training in partnership with youth.”