Initiatives for children and youth often fail to show the “big picture.” How are initiatives at the early childhood level related to middle school programs? What are the right intersections for collaboration, since children being healthy and connected is important in its own right, yet also affects school success while falling outside of the purview of traditional “education”?

In 2003, members of the “founding group” for the Ready by 21 Coalition adopted the “Dashboards for Youth” continuum framework developed by the Forum for Youth Investment, a national nonprofit youth policy organization headquartered in Washington, DC.

We used the Dashboard as a tool to guide selection of priority outcomes and indicators for children and youth, across the developmental continuum. United Way Capital Area worked with partners to develop a 

Click here to go to our online dashboard of priority outcomes and indicators. The online dashboard was built through the Steering Group on Children, sponsored by Workforce Solutions Capital Area, United Way Capital Area, and the Community Action Network.