The City of Alexandria Children & Youth Community Plan 2025 (CYCP) sets long-term priorities and provides a roadmap to success through community-wide coordination and delivery of services to all city children from birth to 21 years-old and their families.

CYCP 2025 goals include ensuring that all children, youth, and families:

1) are physically safe and healthy 

2) are academically successful and career ready 

3) have positive experiences.

Through the CYCP Report Cards, highlights are presented on areas of progress. Here, the CYCP looks at the progress made in three different areas – promoting youth empowerment, preventing youth violence, and creating a more trauma-informed and resilient Alexandria. See each of these report cards - Youth Empowerment, Youth Violence Prevention, Community Resilience - and find out how CYCP collaborators have helped to create a community that empowers youth, ensures their safety, and nurtures their overall wellbeing. As a partner in the group comprising the City’s Unified Implementation Team, the Department of Community and Human Services CYCP Coordinator is working with Alexandria City Public Schools and the Alexandria Health Department to align their three respective strategic plans in areas of shared goals. The Team is guided by three principles: 1) trauma-informed approaches to raise awareness of the prevalence of trauma and target root causes 2) racial equity, which aims to correct systems and policies that negatively impact Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) and 3) the use of developmental assets to mitigate adverse childhood experiences. Learn what resources and services exist for youth in the city and how they can be accessed.