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Action Kits for Municipal Leaders
 Action Kit on Creating a Youth Master Plan (2008)
This action kit for municipal leaders offers tips and advice for the development of a city-schools youth master plan.
By using a master planning process to develop a shared framework and more effectively coordinate services for children and youth, communities can reduce duplication and waste, identify unmet needs, eliminate barriers to services, make better choices in allocating resources among competing priorities, and increase the return on investment for local programs. More than 20 cities across the nation have undergone a youth master planning process.
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 Action Kit on Helping Families Achieve Financial Stability (2008)
This action kit for municipal leaders focuses on steps that city officials can take to help families avoid debt and predatory lending, save and build assets, and achieve long-term financial stability.
The kit describes four key components of a comprehensive asset-building agenda: providing financial education; expanding access to savings and benefits; protecting family assets; and promoting and protecting homeownership. The kit also includes city examples, facts about families' financial stability and additional resources.
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 Combating Childhood Obesity
This action kit for municipal leaders offers a broad range of strategies cities can use to promote physical activity, healthy eating, and access to healthy foods to reverse the childhood obesity epidemic.
Recommendations in the action kit focus on forging partnerships with schools, making the most of out-of-school time, promoting access to nutritious foods, utilizing parks and recreation, and reshaping the physical environment. In addition, the kit contains numerous city examples, facts, and additional resources.
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 Reengaging Disconnected Youth
This action kit highlights steps city officials can take to help young people who are not connected to school, work, or caring adults.
The kit explains why municipal leaders should focus on the needs of disconnected youth, frames the problem and key issues, offers tips for getting started, and recommends some steps that cities can take to promote educational achievement, develop stronger workforce connections, support youth in transition from the foster care and juvenile justice systems, and build a citywide system of support.
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 Supporting Early Childhood Success
This action kit for municipal leaders outlines a wide range of steps they can take to support parents and promote early childhood success, such as assessing community needs and resources, making early childhood a community-wide priority, strengthening families by connecting parents to key information and resources, promoting child health and safety, enhancing early learning opportunities, and expanding access to high-quality childcare.
The action kit also includes a broad range of city examples of progress as well as facts and resources on early childhood.
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 Improving Public Schools
This action kit outlines a wide range of ways that municipal leaders, working in partnership with school officials and the community as a whole, can help ensure that our public schools work for all children.
The action kit describes roles local officials can play in using data to frame the challenge, building coalitions for change, promoting adequate school funding, removing obstacles to achievement, sharing information and resources, and supporting learning. The kit also provides a broad range of city examples along with additional facts and resources.
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 Expanding Afterschool Opportunities
This action kit illustrates the many ways in which municipal leaders can craft a strategy to expand afterschool opportunities, and in the process, advance the goals of public safety, academic achievement, and youth development in their cities.
The kit describes roles that city leaders can play in promoting partnerships, building public will, assessing local needs and resources, improving quality, broadening access, and financing a citywide system, and also includes a broad range of city examples, facts, and further resources.
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 Promoting Youth Participation
This action kit for municipal leaders focuses on youth participation in municipal government and youth involvement in local communities by highlighting strategies to establish a youth council, plan community youth mapping projects to identify local programs and services that are available, host a youth summit, and promote youth service.
The action kit also offers tips for adults who are just getting started in efforts to promote youth voice and leadership, as well as a broad range of city examples and resources for further information.
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 Helping Working Families
This action kit for municipal leaders focuses on outreach steps to assist low-income working families in accessing benefits such as the Child Health Insurance Program, food stamps, and the Earned Income Tax Credit.
This action kit describes steps that local elected officials can take to help working families by developing city-led outreach campaigns, including how to get started, proven outreach strategies, and background information and suggestions on places you can turn for help to start you on your way.
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 Protecting Children and Youth
This action kit highlights steps municipal officials can take to help prevent youth violence, reduce child abuse and neglect, and otherwise protect the safety of children and youth.
Steps recommended in the action kit include setting the agenda, working with schools, targeting high-risk children and families, reaching out to youth, promoting partnerships with police, supporting parents, and restricting access to guns. The kit also contains a list of numerous key facts and federal resources.
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