For Immediate Release: May 3, 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 set areas of progress through the CYCP Report Card. Here, the CYCP looks back at April to feature progress made in teen dating violence prevention and building healthy relationships.

See the report cards and find out how the Keep It 360 Youth Peer Advocates and other  collaborators have worked to help young people form safe relationships with friends and romantic partners, relationships where each person's independence is respected, decisions are made without fear of retribution, arguments remain calm, and there is mutual trust, good communication and consent. Discover the impact of this prevention work and how individuals and organizations can be involved.

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 more about building a more trauma-informed and resilient community.

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

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