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Our VISION:

To ensure Trenton's children enter school healthy, succeed in school and become productive citizens

Our MISSION:

To improve child health and development outcomes through public-private collaboration

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Children's Futures is structured as a non-profit organization created to improve child health and development outcomes for children zero to three in Trenton, New Jersey.

Children's Futures is a broad-based partnership of organizations, public agencies, and private providers serving young children in the Trenton area.

The initiative primarily serves children birth to three years of age and their parents.

Children's Futures is focused on four primary goals.
1. Strengthening parenting
2. Improving child care system
3. Improving primary care system
4. Integrating community supports
Seven parent child centers serve as hubs for coordinated service delivery. Home visiting is a primary service delivery strategy.

Another area of focus is on improving the quality of child care.

The Children's Futures' organization serves as a unique community institution, promoting best practice, collaboration, and leadership development.

Major funding for the initiative was provided by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation ($20 million for 2001-2006; $14.5 million for 2007-2011). Additional federal, state, local and private funding sources support the initiative.

Major Accomplishments
- Established parent/child and father centers.
- Increased child care quality in infant and toddler programs
- Increased access to home visiting services
- Improved practice among area physicians to increase rates of immunization, lead screening, detection of child abuse, and asthma care management.
- Increased access to home visiting services.
- Strengthened parenting skills.
- Improved early literacy.

CF Centers

Children's Futures' centers are hubs of activity offering children and parents a host or resources in neighborhoods throughout Trenton.

The centers and the collaborating lead agencies include:

"The children of Trenton have brighter futures ahead of them as a result of the work of Children's Futures and the visionary guidance and support of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The children of this city and so many other cities across America still face enormous challenges on their paths to adulthood - the scourge of drugs, poverty and crime are all too commonplace in their young lives - in Trenton we celebrate an agency and a foundation that understand that giving kids a good head start can make a world of difference in their lives."

Trenton Mayor
Douglas H. Palmer

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