The changing face of the heartland: Preparing America's diverse workforce for tomorrow. The value of this kind of collaborative effort is echoed by Sondra Samuels, an African- American woman who heads up the Northside Achievement Zone (NAZ). Although Samuels grew up in a middle- class family in New Jersey, a number of young African- American men in her family and among her childhood friends were murdered, and the painful memory of those deaths is part of what inspires the work she does today. In a May 2. 01. 3 interview, she asked: “Why black boys? Why does it happen so often? Why are we okay with it?
Why are we acting like it’s normal? What can be done about it? Is this a black problem? Or is this an American problem?
Our questions actually lay a path for us. The majority of Northsiders, 5. Samuels had spent several years running an anti- violence organization on the Northside, but in 2. Northsiders faced, while focusing on education, because they view education as a critical factor in breaking the multigenerational cycle of poverty.
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With support from several philanthropies, they launched NAZ, an ambitious multi- million dollar effort to prepare the 2,5. Minneapolis’s Northside for college. NAZ works with a large number of philanthropies as well as schools, non- profit organizations, and universities to make sure families and children have the necessary supports for learning, which include not just early childhood education, after- school programs, summer classes, and mentoring for children, but more stable housing, parenting education, and career and financial counseling for adults. NAZ’s annual report is explicit about its goal of “turning the social service model on its head.
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Families are shifting from recipients of services to leaders of a culture shift toward a college- going Northside community.” NAZ has been recognized as a national leader in these kinds of wrap- around services for families, winning a $2. Promise Neighborhood grant from the U. S. Department of Education in 2. Implementing this ambitious model takes time, but NAZ assiduously tracks its impact, and its programs are starting to show results: For example, at the beginning of the 2. NAZ “scholars” who had been enrolled in pre- kindergarten NAZ programs were deemed ready for kindergarten versus 3. North Minneapolis as a whole. NAZ scholars also perform better on third grade reading assessments than their peers, with 2.
But the longer children stay in NAZ programs, the better they seem to do. Third, fourth, and fifth graders who have been enrolled in NAZ efforts for 1. NAZ for less than 6 months. NAZ has not demonstrated the same levels of success for eighth graders, but it has done much less work with that age group, focusing most of its efforts to date on early childhood learning.
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It now has plans to ramp up its program offerings for older children, starting with extra academic coaching and summer programs.“It was like an angel coming and sweeping me up and putting me in a place I needed to be.”. NAZ programs can benefit families in a number of ways. Forty- six percent of the unemployed parents who reached out to NAZ for help in their job search actually found work, and a third of the families enrolled in NAZ programs who were at risk of homelessness or serial moves found more stable housing. This last group includes Angela Avent, who enrolled in NAZ in November 2. NAZ partner organization that enrolled her in a subsidy program that reduced what she has to pay in rent to 1. After years of chaotic housing situations for herself and her four children, she says, “It was like an angel coming and sweeping me up and putting me in a place I needed to be.”Avent has also benefited from NAZ parenting classes. She was skeptical about the classes at first, but now feels they have helped her become a better mother.
She cites several examples of behavioral changes she learned in the classes. Because researchers have found that low- income children hear millions fewer words than children from middle and higher- income homes, and that this gap hurts them academically, the NAZ classes Avent took encouraged her to talk to her children much more, “adding a lot of vocabulary to open their brains,” as she puts it. NAZ classes also taught her to listen to her children — “The more you allow kids to talk, it helps them with emotional growth” — and to find more effective ways of disciplining them. Her eldest daughter, who had run away from home, has returned and is making As and Bs, and now tells Avent how proud she is of all her mother has accomplished. The 5- year- old, who had suffered from lead poisoning from a contaminated house they lived in earlier, is getting the speech therapy that he needs and “is a math whiz,” while the youngest will soon start full- time daycare through another NAZ partner organization so that Avent can go to school and pursue her dream of creating her own non- profit organization to support Northside families.“Too often philanthropic efforts are under- funded and focused on the short- term, because there. Created in 2. 00.
Northside, the Funders Group is headed by Tawanna Black, a native of Kansas, who came on as executive director in 2. Black believes that well- targeted infusions of money can indeed alleviate some of the neighborhood’s problems, but she is clear- headed about the fact that it won’t be easy and that if money is not well spent it can sometimes exacerbate problems rather than solving them. We’re not talking about a pilot program or a two- year effort.