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 - most of creighton's schools serve 94% title i children in neighborhoods of high need, in neighborhoods housing 18,000 people, with vaious systemic challenges such as limited walkability and lack of local resources. Currently working in 5 of creighton's school communities, 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 2018-19 this included continued community contact and support, assembly of neighbors into youth- led/youth-supported community meetings to address health and safety issues, support of new community groups such as a recently established neighborhood association, support of community food insecurity in a food desert community through the delivery of fresh food to the community, various recreational community events including support of creighton school district events such as health fairs and kindergarten fairs, and formal connection/communication with approximately 2,100 neighborhood residents.”

“Community works-service-in partnership with various non-profits, school district resources, and service leadership students, the foundation's program staff actively provide many different services to meet needs in our community, lift up the capacity of surrounding neighbors, and/or form relationships and engagement with surrounding community. As the foundation evolves, this increasingly includes deeper more complex development projects in collaboration with the community and intended to foster community vibrancy by place making and addressing challenges that are seen as detrimental by the community. Working from historic involvement by our youth in food and nutrition (see below) as well as a successful established campus project in the creighton school district, in 2018 our work in this area included the launch of a community garden canal culinary corridor in partnership with creighton school district. In pursuit of a long term 6 site school-connected community garden initiative, and with the help of several hundred volunteers and several dozen organization partners, we began developing 3 separate community garden initiatives on a total of 1 acre of land, while setting the stage for a long term multi-year initiative that will eventually include food access, community engagement and leardership programs, community food and nutrition literacy and nutritional health interventions, school garden learning, and skill and workforce development”

“Community works- child agency - in our mission to develop adult supportive relationships through restorative community practices, we also pursue self-agency in children,by teaching trauma-informed child-value,self- care, leadership, and community service principles in the classroom,and connecting youth to their community through active service outside of school hours. In the third year of delivering this program in some schools, youth continued to excel in community service, with 7th and 8th grade youth meeting weekly operating fresh produce distribution programs and almost independently and distributing over 150 tons of food during this period, painting over 800 curb numbers, engaging more deeply with previous youth who have matriculated into high school, and holding collaborative city-wide events such as a youth leadership conference with asu's college of integrative sciences and arts and rotary international district 5495.”

“Direct support of creighton school district-as a supporting foundation to creighton school district we also periodically assist in funding and supporting various programs. This year included lauching a model for providing support services to parent teacher organizations who often struggle with governance and sustainability across leadership transitions, as well as support for various district extracurricular and education needs, including district youth and leadership events including band field trips, weekend out of town trips for youth, and various sports related events, t-shirts and uniform support for youth events, and support of the junior ambassador program. As always,we maintained partnership with public school arizona tax credit fundraising, and invested in the reach and visibility of creighton school district.”