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1. The Making Place Matter project is made up of a cross-campus group of faculty and staff committed to working to reduce poverty, specifically by finding ways to assist the Waterloo Community School's efforts to improve minority achievement. Opportunity Works, UNI and the Waterloo Community Schools are working together in the recruiting and training of UNI faculty, staff, and students to work with at-risk youth. Sign up to volunteer today!
2. Early childhood education advocacy efforts are aimed at increasing the number of advocates in our region for quality and accessible care for all children.
Goal: High quality education enhances personal assets that lead to conditions of self-sufficiency.
Strategy: Make educational opportunities more accessible to and effective to people in conditions of poverty. We will target educational opportunities that help people build human assets need to get and keep jobs that pay a self-sufficient wage.
Intended Outcomes:
Increase access to early childhood education. Increase support available (including increasing the
number of units) for early childhood education for people who are in or immediately vulnerable to conditions of poverty. Specifically,
more support is needed for people who have earnings just above subsidy limits, work second or third shift, and/or live in rural communities.
Increase effectiveness of early childhood education. Improve the quality of early childhood education,
especially among providers that serve families in conditions of poverty.
Increase effectiveness of the K-12 system. Implement more effective practices to help students in conditions
of poverty to earn a high school diploma, and become ready to enter the workforce (in a livable wage job) or continue education.
Increase access to technical credentials, associate's and bachelor's degree. Improve pathways for people
in conditions of poverty (especially people in persist and intermittent patterns of poverty) to gain post-high school education (technical,
associate's and bachelor's degrees). The desired credentials are those that help people gain employment where earnings create conditions of
self-sufficiency.
Increase effectiveness of technical credential, associate's and bachelor's degree programs for people with low
incomes. Improve higher education completion rates for people who are in conditions of self-sufficiency are possible.
Increase access to workplace skills. Increase the number of people in conditions of poverty who receive
training that helps them to gain skills that are valuable to employers.
Increase effectiveness of workplace skill attainment programs. Helping people in low paid jobs gain skills
that enable them to get jobs which pay a wage that creates self-sufficiency.
Key Indicator: People increase assets by attaining the next highest level of degree attainment.
Connection to Assets: Focusing on this
priority primarily helps to build human and social assets, which
in turn helps to build financial assets.
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