In an effort to promote community resilience and the healthy development of children in our community, the city supports the use of expanded high quality early childhood education and community-based programming for young people struggling to meet academic achievement benchmarks. City of Promise, a neighborhood-based intervention in the 10th & Page area, seeks to meet the needs of families with children falling behind in school. A new Youth Opportunity Project seeks to provide direct services to youth throughout the community with practical support and promote the use of community-wide, organizational and systemic solutions to address the 'achievement gap'.

Graduating from high school and attending college is a formula for individual and community success.