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Implementation Strategy

Create support effort in all nine counties that provide:

  • Caring Adults
  • Safe Places
  • Healthy Start
  • Marketable Skills
  • Opportunities for Community Service
  • These resources, called the Five Promises, are identified by America’s Promise – The Alliance for Youth as the five fundamental resources needed to build and strengthen the character and competence of our youth. 

    • Why should we commit to that strategy?

    • § Because children are clearly our most precious resource.
    • § Because the number of young people not on the road to becoming successful, contributing adults is a growing crisis. We must point them in the right direction if they are to grow up strong and ready to take their places as successful adults and community leaders.
    • § Because our strategy is strengthened by being a part of a national movement that is led by such a respected leader as General Powell, and that has as its symbol the “little red wagon.”
    • § Because the Five Promises and the Little Red Wagon are a powerful framework around which to build a community-wide and regional vision capable of uniting individuals and organizations to take collective action to make children our number one priority.

    What action steps do we need to take to implement the strategy?

    Convene a Regional Promise Task Force to:

    • § Create Community of Promise initiatives in each of the nine counties that mobilize adults to fulfill the Five Promises for the youth in their county.
    • § Empower youth to participate fully in their county’s Promise effort through county-wide Youth Action Councils and a Nine Counties. One Vision. Regional Youth Council staffed by a Regional Youth Council Coordinator.
    • § Build regional collaboration and resource coordination through a Nine Counties. One Vision. Regional Promise Task Force and Regional Promise Resource Coordinator.
    • § Expand the Alliance for Youth Fund at the East Tennessee Foundation to provide grants to local Communities of Promise and to support regional collaboration and resource coordination.

    Who can lead the implementation effort?

    • · Anderson County’s Promise, Campbell County’s Promise, and Knoxville’s Promise
    • · The East Tennessee Foundation
    • · Nine Counties. One Vision.

    What will it cost to implement the action steps and the strategy?

    Costs to implement the strategy and action steps over a five-year period are estimated to include:

    1.

    Regional Alliance for Youth Summit
    ($20,000 per year for 5 years)


    $100,000

    2.

    Staff for initial five year term

    $500,000

    3.

    Website development & maintenance
    ($15,000 initial setup; $3,000 maintenance and updates per year for five years)




    $30,000

    4.

    Special Consultants, Regional Workshops & Trainings


    $30,000

    5.

    Travel Expenses

    $25,000

    6.

    Materials, supplies, etc.
    ($5,000 per year for 5 years)


    $25,000

    7.

    Miscellaneous

    $15,000

     

    Total

    $725,000

     

     

     
    The securing of loaned staff and in-kind services may reduce these costs.

    What should Nine Counties. One Vision. do next?

    • · Create the Regional Promise Task Force
    • · Work with the East Tennessee Foundation to secure funding or in-kind resources to support the local and regional efforts.
    • · Utilize key leadership from Anderson County’s Promise and Knoxville’s Promise to recruit their peers in the other seven counties (e.g., mayors, county executive, business leaders, chambers of commerce, United Way, youth-serving groups, educators, etc.).
    • · Identify multi-sector leadership in each county to invite to the annual Alliance for Youth Summit

     

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