The AmeriCorps VISTA Community Action Project (CAP) is a partnership between PRAB and the United Way of Central Jersey (UWCJ).
AmeriCorps VISTA COMMUNITY ACTION PROJECT (CAP)
Partners For A Better Tomorrow
Partners For A Better Tomorrow
The AmeriCorps VISTA Community Action Project (CAP) is a partnership between PRAB and the United Way of Central Jersey (UWCJ).
It is a capacity building initiative that aims to strengthen low-income individuals, families, and communities in Middlesex County and Central New Jersey around healthy futures, early learning, youth and family development, economic opportunity, citizenship attainment, stable and affordable housing, and energy conservation. Toward this end, it will increase PRAB’s institutional capacity around community partnerships and volunteer development, communications and special events, resource development, and institutional development, and UWCJ’s institutional capacity around early learning.
- Early Learning
- Community Partnerships & Volunteers
- Communications & Special Events
- Resource Development
- Institutional Development
Early Learning
UWCJ will improve the capacity of the Middlesex County early learning provider community to deliver high-quality and affordable early childhood education (ages 0-5).
UWCJ seeks to build on emerging efforts that respond to the needs of Middlesex County low-income residents, who could benefit from free or reduced early childhood and preschool services. It will establish and strengthen a consortium of new and existing early education providers, especially from municipalities with high numbers of low-income and middle-income children and families.
VISTA CAP WILL:
- Partner with institutions to increase early childhood/preschool/kindergarten readiness programs;
- Promote family engagement in literacy and math and early learning programs and services;
- Create a clearinghouse of high-quality early education, readiness programs, and a database of key contacts at schools and childcare facilities; and
- Develop tools and materials for program planning, curriculum development, family engagement, activities and resources for childcare centers and preschools, and information sharing.
United Way Of Central Jersey (UWCJ)
UWCJ has been addressing the human service needs of residents of Middlesex County since 1930. Its mission is to provide leadership to create opportunities for a better life for people living or working in our community who are needy, at-risk and vulnerable. UWCJ mobilizes people, organizations, and financial resources to create and sustain programs that achieve targeted outcomes and lasting change through volunteerism, partnerships, services and advocacy.
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