PRESS RELEASE: November 29th, 2006

CCF FY07 2^nd Quarterly Report Highlights:

Guide to Youth Services – Online! – The Guide to Youth Services is now available as a free, comprehensive, searchable database for our community’s families and professionals. 

Check it out at www.ccfinfo.org!

Community-University Roundtable – This meeting was held to celebrate and discuss ways forward for Community-University partnerships for research and learning.  A new workgroup was established to help this initiative move forward.

Youth Development Network Luncheon – This network is being developed to increase the capacity of community organizations to provide intervention and prevention services to local youth. 

Stepping Stones 2006 Released! – This is the seventh edition of Stepping Stones and there are 62 measures of our community’s well-being as well as 15 identified trends.  One trend of interest is the decline of children over the last five years in both the city and the county who were identified for the Early Intervention Reading Initiative, indicating that more children in our community are going to Kindergarten ready to learn.  The full Stepping Stones is on our website in PDF form and there are limited hard copies available.

To see a PDF of the Quarterly Report, please use the link on the homepage of our website, www.ccfinfo.org.

If you have any questions please contact Hallam Roth, Information and Outreach Coordinator:

Phone: (434) 872-4565 Email: hroth@albemarle.org

CCF is a 28-member planning board that advises the Charlottesville City Council and the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors on improving outcomes for children and their families. 

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