ACS Youth Coalition - Adams, Cheshire and Savoy Youth Coalition
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Communities of Promise Initiative
The FIVE PROMISES have a powerful impact. Young people with the FIVE PROMISES do better in school, are more likely to pursue higher education and enjoy better relationships with their peers and families. They are less likely to engage in risky behaviors and are 5 to 10 times more likely to become productive citizens in their communities.
The 5 Promises:
- 1. Caring Adults:
- Every young person needs and deserves support and guidance from caring adults in their families, schools, and communities - including ongoing, secure relationships with parents and other family adults, as well as multiple and consistent formal and informal positive relationships with teachers, mentors, coaches, youth volunteers, and neighbors.
- 2. Safe Places:
- All young people need to be physically and emotionally safe everywhere they are - from the actual places of families, schools, neighborhoods and communities to the virtual places of media - and to have an appropriate balance of structured, supervised activities and unstructured, unscheduled time.
- 3. Healthy Start:
- Every young person needs the healthy bodies, healthy minds, and healthful habits and choices that result from regular well-child/youth health care and needed treatment, from good nutrition and exercise, from comprehensive health knowledge and skills, and from role models of physical and psychological health.
- 4. Marketable Skills:
- Every young person needs the intellectual development, motivation, and personal, social-emotional, and cultural skills for successful work and lifelong learning in a diverse nation. These result from having quality learning environments, challenging expectations, and consistent formal and informal guidance and mentoring
- 5. Opportunities to Serve:
- Every young person needs the chance to make a difference through having models of caring behavior, awareness of the needs of others, a sense of personal responsibility to contribute to larger society, and opportunities for volunteering, leadership and service.
The FIVE PROMISES come from America's Promise, the national Alliance for Youth.
America's Promise is a collaborative network that builds upon the collective power of communities and partners to help fulfill the FIVE PROMISES for every young person in America. In essence, America's Promise is attempting to create a nation of neighborhoods, uniting citizens of all nationalities, religious faiths and political parties in a common goal – meeting the needs of our children and youth.