For Immediate Release: March 14, 2024

Alexandria, Va. - 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.

Periodically, the CYCP highlights areas of progress through the CYCP Report Card. Here, the CYCP looks at the progress made in strengthening out of school time programs, also known as expanded learning opportunities. See the entire Report Card on Out of School Time Programming and find out how the Youth Support Network and its collaborators have worked to ensure that all of Alexandria’s young people are involved in interesting activities that help bring out their best.

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.

Media Contact: CYCP Coordinator Chelsea Eickert, 571.447.8132 or chelsea.eickert@alexandriava.gov