The mission of the Child Well-Being Movement is to ensure that all families and individuals can live a healthy lifestyle, obtain the skills and education needed to succeed, and have a safe place to live.
Communities that can say, “all the children are well” have babies born healthy, kids who read proficiently by third grade and teens who graduate from high school ready for college and careers. These are kids that grow up in communities where people are educated, employed and housed.
United Way, along with dozens of partners, developed a set of 14 measures that can be used as a tool to help the region assess how children, the families that support them and the communities that surround them, are doing. This data is bringing people together from across the community to advance a shared goal and drive transformative results for children and families.
The Child Well-Being Map demonstrates how the different areas score across the region in the areas of child, family and community well-being scores.
With your gift to United Way's Child Well-Being Initiative, you'll ensure lasting, collaborative solutions to the critical problems that stand between our communities and a better quality of life. In order to ensure that children and families in need reach their full potential, your gift will provide crucial support for research and advocacy.