A Report Card on Making the City of Alexandria a More Affordable and Inclusive Place to Live

For Immediate Release: April 17, 2024

Alexandria, Va. - The City of Alexandria Children & Youth Community Plan 2025 (CYCP) sets long-term priorities and provides a roadmap to success through community-wide coordination and delivery of services to all city children from birth to 21 years-old and their families.

CYCP 2025 goals include ensuring that all children, youth and families: 1) are physically safe and healthy 2) are academically successful and career ready and 3) have positive experiences.

Each month, the CYCP highlights areas of progress through the CYCP Report Card. Here, the CYCP looks at progress made in making Alexandria a more affordable and inclusive place to live. See the Report Card on Affordable Housingto learn how the City and its partners are collaborating to preserve and expand housing affordability and opportunity. Also learn how partners are working to support healthy and energy efficient homes in the city since the Children and Youth Community Plan was approved in April 2021.

As a partner in the group comprising the City's Unified Implementation Team, the Department of Community and Human Services CYCP Coordinator is working with Alexandria City Public Schools and the Alexandria Health Department to align their three respective strategic plans in areas of shared goals. The Team is guided by three principles: 1) trauma-informed approaches to raise awareness of the prevalence of trauma and target root causes 2) racial equity, which aims to correct systems and policies that negatively impact Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) and 3) the use of developmental assets to mitigate adverse childhood experiences.

Learn what resources and services exist for youthin the city and how they can be accessed.

For media inquiries, please contact CYCP Coordinator Chelsea Eickert at 571.447.8132 or [email protected].

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