Resources
The Promise Neighborhoods Training and Technical Assistance team, the U.S. Department of Education, Promise Neighborhoods grantees, and key technical assistance partners have produced written guidance, tools, and videos about how to launch and manage a successful cradle-to-career pipeline of solutions and strategies for early learners, students, and families in economically distressed communities. Resources appear in the order they were added with the most recent additions first.
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An Equity Toolkit for Promise Neighborhoods: Advancing Equitable Outcomes through the Performance Management Cycle
Author: Rachel Goins, Tiffany Boyd, Monica Young, Mary Bogle, Sarah Gillespie | Year of Publication: 2019
This brief describes how Promise Neighborhoods can apply an equity lens to address disparate outcomes as a path to achieving better results for all children and families. Promise Neighborhoods is a federal initiative that aims to improve the educational and developmental outcomes of children and families in diverse communities, including urban neighborhoods, rural areas, and Tribal lands.
Measuring Performance: A Guidance Document for Promise Neighborhoods on Collecting Data and Reporting Results: FY 2017/2018 Edition
Author: Jennifer Comey, Peter A. Tatian, Lesley Freiman, Mary K. Winkler, Christopher R. Hayes, and Kaitlin Franks | Year of Publication: 2019
Promise Neighborhoods is a place-based initiative intended to turn neighborhoods of concentrated poverty into neighborhoods of opportunity. The model does this by providing high-quality schools along with a continuum of services spanning from early childhood through college and enhancing family and community supports. The Promise Neighborhoods initiative model has a strong commitment to results-based planning and improvement using real-time data. This guidance document recommends data collection strategies and data system structures to ensure Promise Neighborhoods can manage and produce measurable results. While this guidance document is written specifically for Promise Neighborhoods, these recommendations can be applied to other place-based initiatives. This version of the document was updated to address changes in the Promise Neighborhoods performance indicators for fiscal year 2018 grantees.
Learn About Your Neighborhood: Uncover the Strengths and Challenges
Author: The Center for the Study of Social Policy | Year of Publication: 2018
This tool provides information to help individuals find the right people to include on neighborhood leadership teams and begin outreach in their communities.
Community Engagement Data Collection Family Supports Parent and Community Engagement
Maintaining and Expanding the Pipeline: Guidance, Strategies, and Reflections on Sustaining a Promise Neighborhood
Author: The Center for the Study of Social Policy | Year of Publication: 2017
This brief provides a framework and guiding questions to support Promise Neighborhoods in preparing for sustainability, with the approach that sustainability should be incorporated into overall strategy development.
Early Childhood Education Family Supports K-12 Academic Performance Staffing, Organization & Leadership
Building out an Effective Case Management System
Author: PolicyLink | Year of Publication: 2016
A robust case management system is critical to tracking progress and improving outcomes for children and their families along the cradle-to-career continuum.
Collecting, Analyzing, and Using Data Data Collection Data Management Systems Data Security and Confidentiality
A New Day for Data: For Families Forced Out, a Reason to Return - San Francisco, CA
Author: Alexandra Tilsley, Lydia Thompson | Year of Publication: 2016
This data story features the San Francisco Promise Neighborhood’s use of data to meet the needs of residents from the gentrifying Mission District even as many are displaced from the neighborhood.
Collecting, Analyzing, and Using Data Data Collection Family Supports Parent and Community Engagement
A New Day for Data: Bringing Change to a Forgotten Community - Washington, DC
Author: Serena Lei, Lydia Thompson | Year of Publication: 2016
This data story focuses on the Washington, DC, Promise Neighborhood’s use of data to lift an isolated and forgotten community out of poverty.
Collecting, Analyzing, and Using Data Family Supports Health and Wellbeing Parent and Community Engagement
A New Day for Data: Passport to Prosperity - Indianola, MS
Author: Matthew Johnson | Year of Publication: 2016
This data story features the Indianola Promise Neighborhood’s use of data to transform lives by aiming to close the disparity of opportunities for children in rural Mississippi.
Collecting, Analyzing, and Using Data Early Childhood Education Family Supports Parent and Community Engagement
Leveraging Policy Advocacy to Keep Students Healthy (GPRAs 8–9)
Author: Promise Neighborhoods Institute | Year of Publication: 2016
The capacity to leverage policy advocacy and systems change is critical to scaling up and sustaining efforts to ensure youth living in Promise Neighborhoods are healthy and connected to the necessary services and supports to prepare them for college and career success.
Health and Wellbeing K-12 Academic Performance Parent and Community Engagement Policy & Systems
Integrating Family Financial Security into Cradle-to-Career Pipelines: Learning Lessons from Promise Neighborhoods
Author: PolicyLink | Year of Publication: 2016
With support from Citi Foundation, PolicyLink and the Promise Neighborhoods Institute at PolicyLink (PNI) joined forces with five PNI communities (Brooklyn, New York; Los Angeles, California; Chula Vista, California; Orlando, Florida; and Indianola, Mississippi) to design and carry out strategies for embedding financial security into their pipelines of supports. The collaborative effort set out to embed the concepts of budgeting, emergency savings, saving for college, and credit access, into existing PNI programs.
Family Supports Financial Security Post-Secondary Success Program Delivery/Partners