Starting Points

State and Community Partnerships for Young Children

In 1996 Carnegie Corporation of New York awarded two-year grants totaling more than $3 million to sixteen states and cities participating in a new grants program called Starting Points State and Community Partnerships for Young Children.

The grants will expand the Corporation's efforts to stimulate reform in policies and programs and to mobilize community action based on the recommendations of Starting Points: Meeting the Needs of Our Youngest Children, a Carnegie task force report. Starting Points highlighted the critical importance of the first three years of life for subsequent healthy development. It documented the "quiet crisis" that young children face today--including low prenatal care and immunization rates, the rising incidence of child abuse and neglect, and disturbing trends in family stability.

Program Overview - A discussion of the report's findings and the program's goals.

City/State Projects - Profiles of participating sites and coordinating organizations, the program focus, major program components, and contacts.

Baltimore - Baltimore City Healthy Start Inc.
Boston - Boston City Hospital
Colorado - Bright Beginnings
Florida - Center for Educational Enhancement and Development
Georgia/Atlanta - Georgia Department of Human Resources
Hawaii - Office of Children and Youth and Hawaii Medical Association
Minnesota/Minneapolis - Department of Children, Families and Learning and Minneapolis Way to Grow
North Carolina - North Carolina Partnership for Children
Ohio - Ohio Family and Children First Initiative
Pittsburgh - University Center for Social and Urban Research
Rhode Island - Rhode Island Department of Elementary and Secondary Education and Rhode Island Department of Health
San Francisco - Mayor's Office--Children, Youth, and Their Families
Vermont - Agency of Human Services/Education Collaboration
West Virginia - West Virginia Governor's Cabinet on Children and Families

Carnegie Corporation of New York - Information about the foundation that established this program.

Other Points of Interest - Links to other Web sites of interest to Starting Points network members.

Order Reports - Order copies of the full and abridged versions of the Starting Points report.

Starting Points Web: http://www.carnegie.org/startingpoints
Starting Points E-mail: startingpoints@carnegie.org