Mission: Coleman Advocates believes that all children and families deserve access to high quality education, living wage jobs, family-supporting benefits, affordable housing, and a voice in the decisions that affect us. Since 1975, Coleman Advocates has pioneered programs and policies to expand opportunity for San Francisco’s children, youth and families, Many of these hard-won programs and policies have served as models adopted by communities all over the country.
Project: CACY hosted three separate summer programs with our Children Making a Change, Youth Making a Change, and Parents Making a Change cohorts, gathering feedback about issues faced during and as a result of COVID; hosted three listening sessions; and sent out surveys in order to get to the finer points of students’ academic and wellness losses compounded as a result of COVID. CACY met with educators, to learn about their classroom experiences, what they see as potential solutions to academic challenges, and to identify wellness supports needed.
Outcome: Through these conversations CACY pinpointed which specific issues must be addressed in order to transform education and put a stop to the exacerbation of education inequity.