Filed under Good Idea, Education / Educational Attainment, Children, Teens

Goal: The goal of Check & Connect is to encourage middle and high school students to stay on track towards graduation. Check & Connect seeks to foster student engagement at school and with learning. In Check & Connect, engagement is defined as commitment to and investment in learning, as well as identification with and belonging at school. Engagement is associated with desired academic, behavioral, cognitive, and affective outcomes, such as persisting in school and graduating.

Impact: Students who participate in Check & Connect are significantly more likely to stay in high school than similar peers who did not receive the intervention (24%). Students who participate in Check & Connect are significantly more likely to complete high school than peers who did not receive the intervention (20%).

Filed under Effective Practice, Environmental Health / Toxins & Contaminants

Goal: The goal of the Chemical Management Services model is to reduce chemical use and cost, and to reduce the environmental impact of chemical use.

Filed under Effective Practice, Education / Childcare & Early Childhood Education, Children, Urban

Goal: The goal of this program is to provide comprehensive educational support and family support to economically disadvantaged children and their parents.

Filed under Effective Practice, Economy / Employment, Families, Urban

Goal: The mission of Chicago Commons is to help individuals, families and communities to overcome poverty, discrimination and isolation.

Filed under Effective Practice, Economy / Housing & Homes

Goal: CCLF's vision is to work creatively with their clients to help them rejuvenate neighborhoods and improve the lives of low-wealth individuals and families who live in those communities.

Filed under Effective Practice, Health / Older Adults, Older Adults, Urban

Goal: The overall program goal is the maintenance of a physically active lifestyle, in order to optimize one's functional capacity and ability to perform daily activities. In order to achieve this goal, the following impact objectives were established:

- Enhance enjoyment and participation in a variety of physical activities
- Develop and enhance the skills, knowledge, and self-efficacy needed to
establish and maintain an active lifestyle
- Ensure the affordability and accessibility of the program

Filed under Good Idea, Health / Children's Health, Children, Families, Urban

Goal: The goal of the program is to offer comprehensive child abuse prevention and intervention as well as health care services in a single setting.

Filed under Effective Practice, Economy / Poverty, Children, Families

Goal: The program's mission is to promote public-private partnerships to ensure that the children of Florida are provided safe, high quality, developmentally appropriate and enriching child care while parents work to remain self-sufficient.

Filed under Good Idea, Health / Children's Health, Children

Goal: The goal of this program is to ensure the health and safety of children attending day care facilities and the staff who care for them.

Filed under Effective Practice, Education / Childcare & Early Childhood Education, Children

Goal: The central goal of CDP is to help schools become "caring communities of learners" by offering an environment of caring, supportive, and collaborative relationships to build students' sense of community in school and to promote school bonding.