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Ending poverty: A collaborative approach
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poverty through a collaborative place-based approach. This placed-based strategy will allow us to work collaboratively with neighborhoods utilizing their existing assets to strengthen the community’s physical, social, structural, and economic conditions that ultimately affect the well-being of the children, families, and individuals who live there. It also allows us to work collaboratively with service providers, helping to “connect the dots” to the five social determinants of health (5SDoH) (listed above) that determine how residents live, work, play, age and worship. We have titled this collaborative approach “Moving Families Forward,” which implements a two-generation approach that creates opportunities for families by simultaneously equipping parents and children with the tools they need to thrive while removing the obstacles in
their way. This collaborative place-based approach will address family poverty, focusing on meeting the basic needs of low-income parents and their children by creating a web of support that nurtures the child academically, emotionally, physically, and socially, thereby combatting intergenerational poverty. A drilled-down, concentrated approach to resource application and data analysis has never been made in our community. This experiment will allow us to assess whether this bottoms-up approach gives us the desired outcomes we seek before implementing efforts on a larger scale. We will continue promoting collaboration across neighborhoods, sharing successful best practices and measurements, and seeking short-term and long-term funding for sustainable solutions and longer-term results.
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Executive Partnership
Mayor Allen Joines
The initial efforts made by the Poverty Thought Force (now The Partnership for Prosperity [P4P]) proceeded from a fundamental commitment: povertyalleviation ideas and strategies would arise primarily from extended conversation and consultation with community members. No shortage exists across the globe of anti-poverty programs, policies, ideas, pilots, workshops, and the like. Yet, poverty stubbornly persists worldwide, including in North Carolina and particularly in Winston-Salem. Evidence suggests that local solutions, generated or reviewed by a community’s residents, are the likeliest route to improvement; the best anti-poverty research reaffirms the value of understanding and addressing poverty in a specific time and place. This commitment has shaped the strategic direction of P4P for the coming years. Through a focused approach to ending poverty, P4P addresses social justice and equity issues that will help reduce
The Poverty Thought Force identified five significant areas of concentration: Education, Health, Housing/Homelessness, Hunger/Food Sovereignty and Jobs/Workforce Development.
Paula McCloy
By Paula McCoy
Sandra Miller Jones
SMSi Healthy Living Solutions, Inc. Founder & CEO
Lafayette Jones
Publisher, Urban Call; SMSi-Urban Call Marketing, Inc. President & CEO
The primary mission of our SMSi companies is to help our clients improve the health of underserved citizens. That’s why we are so pleased and excited to have the opportunity to work with P4P in the organization’s efforts to help alleviate poverty in WinstonSalem. P4P has done an outstanding job of identifying needs of our poor communities, and working on ways to address these needs. Many of the organizations efforts are highlighted in this Urban Call publication. It is our hope that you will read about these efforts and find ways to help P4P.
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