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The Promise of Comprehensive Community Initiatives
January 24, 2018


- Collaborative governance structure
- Comprehensive planning
- Resources and sustainability
- Evidence-based prevention programming
- Monitoring implementation
- A culture of inquiry
Why this matters
Education-oriented CCIs were largely absent from the authors’ review of impact studies. This is not meant to suggest that community-wide collaborative efforts to impact education for youth are nonexistent or ineffective. In fact, several initiatives, including Promise Neighborhoods, Collective Impact, and Say Yes to Education maintain a strong commitment to improving educational outcomes for youth. However, this research underscores a critical need to design rigorous evaluations that can offer high-quality data to guide the field of education, in similar ways as the CCIs in this review have done for public health and prevention science. The findings from the systematic review provide cautious optimism that CCIs can impact population-level outcomes for children, youth and families.
The 5 Promises
The 5 Promises represent conditions children need to achieve adult success. The collective work of the Alliance involves keeping these promises to America’s youth. This article relates to the promises highlighted below: