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People Highlights
In 2021, CAC and KCDC surveyed 76% of the target residents to understand their specific needs. Among the most frequently mentioned needs were transportation, out-of-school programming, and job training. The People strategy, to be implemented by CAC, addresses each of these needs by partnering with local organizations and building on existing programs to: 1. Ensure children have access to early learning programs, are proficient in core academic subjects, and graduate college/career ready 2. Ensure children, youth, and adults are physically and mentally healthy 3. Increase and connect youth to out-of-school programming that reinforces and enhances learning 4. Support residents so they can secure livingwage jobs, increase their incomes, access benefits, and have sufficient resources to meet their daily needs 5. Improve access to affordable, healthy, and fresh food Each of these People goals has baseline metrics and measurable targets that will be tracked by CAC throughout the transformation. CAC will focus on improving access to healthcare, increasing the percentage of children at or above grade level in third-grade reading and math, increasing income, and increasing access to adult and youth enrichment programming. Partners will commit leverage to achieve these People goals and support the families of Western Heights to thrive.
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Median Household Income (Census Tract)
Education Levels (Needs Assessment)
PEOPLE PARTNERS
• American Heart Association • American Jobs Center • Baptist Compassion Center • Big Brothers Big Sisters East Tennessee • Boys & Girls Club of the Tennessee Valley • Boy Scouts of America Great Smoky
Mountain Council • CAC Affordable Medicine Options for Seniors • CAC AmeriCorps • CAC AmeriCorps Seniors • CAC Beardsley Farm, Urban Agriculture and Green Thumb • CAC Knoxville-Knox County Head Start • CAC Gift of Sight, Hearing, and Dentures • CAC Families Together Academy • CAC Family Benefits Specialists • CAC Neighborhood Center, Tutoring • CAC Nutrition Services • CAC Steps for Success • CAC SNAP Outreach • CAC Ticket to Work • CAC Transit • CAC Workforce Connections • CAC Volunteer Income Tax Assistance • Catholic Charities of East Tennessee, CHAP program, Pregnancy Help Center, and
Immigrant Services • Center for English • Choice Health Network • City of Knoxville • Destiny Adoption • First Horizon Bank • Girls Incorporated Tennessee Valley • Girl Talk Inc. • Helping Mamas • Dream Center Knoxville • Emerald Youth, Calling and Career • Knox County Health Department, CHANT • Knox County Schools • Knox Education Foundation • Knoxville Leadership Foundation, KnoxWorks • Knoxville Area Physicians Association • Knoxville Chamber of Commerce • Knoxville College • Knoxville Health Department, CHANT, Healthy
Weigh, Substance Misuse Response, Tobacco
Prevention and Control • Mend House • Metropolitan Drug Coalition • New Directions Health Care Solutions • Nourish Knoxville • Pellissippi State Technical and
Community College • Real Good Kitchen • Regions Bank • Second Harvest of East Tennessee • Socially Equal Energy Efficient Development
Knox (SEEED Knox) • South College of Nursing • SSI/SSDI Outreach, Access, & Recovery (SOAR) • Susannah’s House • TnAchieves • Tennessee College of Applied Technology • Tennessee Re-entry Collaborative • Tennessee’s Early Intervention System • University of Tennessee College of Nursing,
Agricultural Extension, and TCSEPP • Western Heights Dental • Wesley House Community Center • YWCA Knoxville and the Tennessee Valley’s
GameChangers and Supporting Youth
Experiencing Trauma (SYET)
