Achieving Educational Equity
The Neighborhood Initiative is a place-based effort to shift the academic and professional trajectory of children attending the McPherson, Shearer, and Phillips Elementary Schools. School leaders and On The Move staff collaborate to raise academic outcomes from preschool to college and career. School-based family resource centers support family health and wellbeing while promoting parent leadership and learning. Elementary, middle and high school Youth Leadership Academies collaborate with parents and community members to foster an inter-generational pipeline of learning and leadership. This combined focus on academic achievement, parent engagement and youth leadership results in young people who build vibrant communities, secure a path to college, establish educational equity for themselves and their peers, and pursue a future in which all possibilities real and attainable.
Achieving Educational Equity
The Neighborhood Initiative is a place-based effort to shift the academic and professional trajectory of children attending the McPherson, Shearer, and Phillips Elementary Schools. School leaders and On The Move staff collaborate to raise academic outcomes from preschool to college and career. School-based family resource centers support family health and wellbeing while promoting parent leadership and learning. Elementary, middle and high school Youth Leadership Academies collaborate with parents and community members to foster an inter-generational pipeline of learning and leadership. This combined focus on academic achievement, parent engagement and youth leadership results in young people who build vibrant communities, secure a path to college, establish educational equity for themselves and their peers, and pursue a future in which all possibilities real and attainable.
Family Resource CenterS
The FRC partners with families and community to create opportunities for learning, advocacy, social connections, well-being, and community leadership so that individuals have the resources to realize their strengths and determine and shape their own futures.
PARENT UNIVERSITY
Parent University provides Napa County parents with the tools and knowledge to become more involved in their children’s education. Through more than 100 classes offered at eight elementary schools, the program fosters a campus culture of volunteerism and parent leadership.
Youth Leadership Academies
The Leadership Academy provides a pipeline of leadership by engaging children and youth from 4th-grade through high school. Youth develop and practice their leadership skills through community projects, teamwork, and creating changes they want to see in their schools and neighborhoods.
CITIZENship LEGAL SERVICES
Citizenship Legal Services, a program of the One Napa Valley Initiative, brings together community partners and agencies to help Napa's legal permanent residents become U.S. Citizens through classes, citizenship application assistance, and support with DACA benefits.