A Community Improvement Initiative to Create Meaningful and Measurable Improvements for the Common Good of All in the Salina Area by 2020
Project Purpose Statement
To strengthen human and social capital in the Salina area by engaging community members in a decision-making process around the topics of education, financial stability and health to achieve the following:
- Documented current community assets and resources
- Identified gaps in recourses and process that are the root cause of problems that could be prevented
- Prioritized opportunities for advancing the Salina area together by combined community resource development
The S.M.A.R.T. Community Improvement Goal to be achieved by June 30, 2015 by PIECE in partnership with Salina Area United Way is the following: 85% of the children in Saline county entering kindergarten will have the necessary skills to be successful.
Volunteers selected Partners In Early Childhood Education (PIECE) with a fiscal intermediary of Child Advocacy and Parenting Services (CAPS) in partnership with the following organizations: Central Kansas Cooperative in Education, Central Kansas Mental Health Center, ERC DBA Child Care Aware of N.E. & N.C. Kansas, Infant Child Development, Martin Luther King Jr. Child Development Center, Saline County Health Department, Salina Child Care Association, Smoky Hill Education Service Center, Department of CHildren & Families (DCF), USD #305 Heartland Headstart Programs, USD #306, Southeast Saline Parents as Teachers, and YMCA Child Development Center.