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City's Children and Youth Community Plan and Reports
Children and Youth Community Plan 2025
The CYCP 2025 builds upon the original Plan’s foundation and progress while updating it for the future. This was accomplished through a collaborative effort whereby 2,100 community members, 88% of whom were youth, were engaged in an hour-long workshop designed to craft a vision of where we want to go and how we are going to get there. The workshop was called, “Build Your Legacy Workshop” because the youth involved in developing the workshop believed that this was their opportunity to leave their legacy in Alexandria. The result is a plan that centers equity while preventing harmful experiences and promoting positive ones. Read the Plan
CHILDREN AND YOUTH COMMUNITY PLAN REPORT CARDS
Each month, the City’s Department of Community and Human Services publishes a “Children and Youth Community Plan Report Card” that will engage the public on the progress of the CYCP. Each Report Card will help tell the unique story about Alexandria’s children and youth. View the Report Cards.
CHILDREN AND YOUTH MASTER PLAN FIVE YEAR REPORT
The Children, Youth and Families Collaborative Commission (CYFCC) has released its “Children and Youth Master Plan Five Year Report” that highlights successes combating issues that impact the lives of children and families in our community. Read the report
CHILDREN AND YOUTH MASTER PLAN 2014
The Children, Youth & Families Collaborative Commission developed the first Children and Youth Master Plan (2014) as the basis for the coordination, alignment and delivery of effective services to all city children and youth from birth to 21 years-old and their families. Adopted by City Council on June 24, 2014 and by the ACPS School Board on May 17, 2014, the plan established long-term, community-wide priorities for youth as well as the specific action steps necessary to realize those priorities. The goals of the plan are to ensure that all children and youth are healthy and safe, academically and vocationally prepared, and socially and civically connected. Read the Plan
Goals and Strategies
Learn about the Plan's strategies and goals to ensure that all children and youth are healthy and safe, academically and vocationally prepared, and socially and civically connected.
Priority Areas and Work Groups
CYCP work groups provide multiple opportunities to impact and improve the lives of Alexandria’s children and youth. Read about how work groups are achieving the goals and strategies of the Plan.
Additional CYCP Materials
RAISE: A Trauma Informed Community Network
RAISE, Alexandria's Trauma-Informed Community Network, is a diverse group of individuals from various systems - including government agencies, nonprofits, faith-based communities, community members, private providers, boards and commissions - who work together to build a more trauma-informed and resilient community. Learn more about RAISE and how you can be involved.
CYFCC
The Children, Youth & Families Collaborative Commission(CYFCC) developed the Plan. Learn more about the Commission, comprised of community leaders and key City and Alexandria City Public Schools staff, and its work.
Get Involved!
If you are interested in helping move the Children and Youth Community Plan (CYCP) forward, let us know how you would like to play a role! Please use this Interest Form to select one or more options listed and you will receive a follow up email. Thank you for helping to create the conditions in Alexandria for all youth to thrive!
Unified Planning Among Key Organizations to Improve Lives
Alexandria prides itself on being a concerned, caring and engaged community – one which works collaboratively for the benefit of those who live here and the larger public interests. Alexandrians view themselves individually but also, as part of this larger collective wishing to improve the lives of all who live in the city.
In 2019, the “perfect storm” of opportunity presented itself when the timing of revisions to three major city-related plans coincided – the Alexandria City Public Schools’ (ACPS) Strategic Plan, the Department of Community and Human Services’ (DCHS) Children and Youth Master Plan (CYMP), and the Alexandria Health Department and the Partnership for a Healthier Alexandria’s Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP). These organizations established a Unified Planning Team in the spring of 2019 and found partnering to develop their plans collectively provided added value to each through the opportunity to maximize collective community engagement, use and focus on the most important data, and focus on shared outcomes.
The result of working together, instead of in isolation, should prove beneficial to all in Alexandria and serve as a model for future efforts in our community. We invite you to view the outcome of this unified planning work here.
While developing these plans is important, implementing them successfully is even more important. As a result, the Unified Planning Team will evolve into a Unified Implementation Team to continue the partnership during implementation of these plans over the next five years and continue to ensure alignment of actions, collective community engagement, use of data, and sharing of resources, when possible.
Resource Directory for Alexandria Youth and Young Adults
This Resource Directory for Youth and Young Adults is an inventory of the many programs, services, and resources available to youth and young adults in Alexandria. It was built for youth to use to find resources that promote their well-being in the City. It is an inventory of resources that has been compiled to increase awareness of and access to the many programs and services provided by City, non-profit, and community organizations for Alexandria youth. The Directory includes health services, social services, employment programs, college and career supports, and out-of-school time opportunities for youth (ages 11-17) and for young adults (ages 18-24). Search the Directory.