About the Partnership
The Stanislaus Cradle to Career Partnership believes that all children can reach their full educational potential regardless of race, ethnicity, or family income. Every student deserves a chance to earn a postsecondary certificate, credential, or college degree with the opportunity to enter a meaningful, self-sustaining job in early adulthood.
Since its official launch in Spring 2018, the Partnership has worked hard behind the scenes to develop the necessary infrastructure to sustain collective impact efforts over time. We now have a diverse leadership body that represents multiple sectors from education, healthcare, business, government, faith, and community. We support ten initiatives focused driving an intentional process to move the needle on critical milestones along the cradle to career spectrum. Included in this is youth empowerment, mental health, and parent engagement.
Our partnership is primarily backboned by the Stanislaus County Office of Education, providing the necessary ongoing coordination, resource development, and data support. In addition to the small backbone team, partner organizations provide in-kind staff time necessary to lead the work in our impact areas.
Our Partnership joined the national StriveTogether Network connecting Stanislaus County to cradle-to-career resources and best practices from communities across the country and has been recognized as a sustaining partnership since 2022.
We believe in building a sturdy foundation today so that we can sustain a long-term movement lifting all Stanislaus County learners to their highest aspirations.
Vision
A healthy and equitable community built on educational success and economic well-being where all people will have the opportunity, resources and tools needed to achieve their highest potential.
Mission
Align sectors and systems in Stanislaus County to ensure equitable outcomes from cradle to career.
Values
We center underserved students in our work to build equitable access and outcomes. We know educational outcomes are NOT the sole responsibility of school districts. To achieve the changes we wish to see will require commitment and action from the entire community. As a partnership, we ‘own’ educational success for all children in our community.
Systemic change doesn’t happen overnight.
We know that in order to see meaningful community-level results, our systems and institutions must adapt. This requires a cultural shift among the people who manage our systems - a shift in how we collectively approach complex problems, how we engage with each other across institutions, how we approach data to make better policy decisions, and how we show up.
OUR GOALS
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Stanislaus County students enter kindergarten ready to succeed.
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Stanislaus County students read at grade level by the end of third grade.
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Stanislaus County students of all ages demonstrate success and joy in math.
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Stanislaus County students graduate high school postsecondary ready. Postsecondary students successfully complete their certificate or degree.
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Stanislaus County job seekers are ready to enter self-sustaining employment.
OUR COMMITMENT
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We believe that we are better together as a collaborative partnership than individual organizations and pledge to share best practices, services and resources across the continuum of the Cradle to Career Partnership.
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We recognize that our work is generational and requires long-term stakeholder commitment.
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We pledge to work together within an environment of co-learning and collaboration, focused on equitable outcomes and economic development.
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We commit to innovation and a ‘growth mindset’ to achieve greater outcomes for all students.
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To the best of our ability, we will work toward sharing student data to set baseline measures and monitor progress toward achieving our goals.
Stanislaus Cradle to Career Partnership is a member of The StriveTogether Cradle to Career Network, a national, nonprofit network of nearly 70 partnerships working to improve outcomes for kids by bringing together cross-sector partners around a shared community vision. Together, the Network impacts 13.7 million students nationwide.