Organization Details:

A public-private partnership, Agenda for Children Tomorrow (ACT) promotes the well-being of children, families and neighborhoods in New York City by working to improve services and to strengthen the capacities of communities.
As an intermediary and change agent, ACT:

-builds upon and convenes coalitions of organizations and individuals to plan strategically;
-assists public and nonprofit agencies to be more responsive to the needs and strengths of local communities;
-promotes integrated and coordinated service delivery structures within, though not exclusively, early child care and education, housing, economic development, child welfare and other health and human services sectors;
-helps to make services more accessible, available, user-friendly and culturally relevant; and
builds the capacities of youth, parents and families to advocate on behalf of themselves and their communities.
-Central to the mission is the persistent pursuit of sustainable strategic opportunities to achieve these five goals.

Description and/or History:
ACT has participated in major community-based projects such as the One-City, One-Community Project, a neighborhood-based initiative to improve coordination of city government services. ACT also established and operates Bushwick IMPACT (Informing More Parents Across the Community Together), a family resource center offering and promoting early learning, family literacy and parent involvement in Bushwick, Brooklyn.

ACT continues to support the NYC Administration for Children’s Services’ (ACS) Community Partnership Initiatives in the Highbridge section of the Bronx, East New York/Brownsville, Bedford-Stuyvesant and Bushwick. We recently helped ACS to implement the Immigrant Community Partnership Initiative, a pilot project to connect new immigrant communities to child welfare services. In addition, ACT has collaborated with ACS’s Office of Youth Development, assisting in the development of a Youth Advisory Board.

ACT also works independently to decentralize and increase the responsiveness of public and private service providers to neighborhoods and to advocate for policies that will improve conditions for families throughout the City.

Contact people:

Joyce Friedmann, (212) 487-8284, (email) Sandy March, Operations Manager, (212) 487-8284, (email)

Address:

2 Washington Street 20th Floor New York, NY 10004 (See a map)

Directions:

Take the 1, R or W train to Rector Street. Walk over the bridge. Turn left. Look for black building on the right. Take the 4 or 5 train to Bowling Green. Walk North to Washington Street.. . . (more)