The Monthly Report Card on Helping City of Alexandria Kids Succeed through the Children & Youth Community Plan: Focus on Progress Made to Date

For Immediate Release: January 4, 2023

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 and 3) have positive experiences.

Each month, the CYCP highlights areas of progress through the CYCP Report Card. This month, rather than focusing on one area, the CYCP takes a comprehensive look back on the work accomplished throughout the Plan’s implementation.

See the entire CYCP Progress Report and find out how community collaborators have worked to ensure that all Alexandria children succeed. See data trends on access to preschool, healthcare and culturally appropriate foods, sports involvement, rates of youth violence, depression and suicide, school suspension rates by demographic as well as involvement with caring adults and feelings of safety and being valued along with other data reflective creating a more trauma informed and resilient Alexandria.

As a partner in the trio 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 more about the Unified Implementation Team and their plans.

For inquiries from the news media on the CYCP report cards, please contact CYCP Coordinator Chelsea Eickert at 571.447.8132 or chelsea.eickert@alexandriava.gov.

This release is available at: alexandriava.gov/go/4206

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