BRIDGEPORT PROSPERS

ADVANCE EQUITABLE CHANGE AND PROMOTE THE WELL-BEING OF BRIDGEPORT'S CHILDREN, YOUTH, AND FAMILIES.

What is Bridgeport Prospers Cradle-to-Career? Bridgeport Prospers is a place-based partnership working to create exceptional results for our young people and community.

Working to improve education success for every child through a data-driven, quality collective impact approach. Connected by their work on the ground, StriveTogether Cradle to Career Network members (like us) are committed to sharing knowledge, building upon what works, and driving action to improve key outcomes along every child’s path to education success. StriveTogether is a national, nonprofit network of about 70 collective impact movements, which provides a collective impact approach and related Theory of Action. Their nationally recognized Theory of Action is centered on four pillars: shared community vision, evidence-based decision making, collaborative action, and investment sustainability.

Bridgeport Prospers Initiatives

  • Our goal is to ensure that children are happy, healthy, and developmentally ready for preschool at three years of age. That means starting early — from birth — since 80% of a child’s brain growth happens by age three. This period of rapid growth lays the foundation for all future learning, behavior, and health.

  • Our goal is to improve outcomes in middle grade math, high school graduation, college enrollment and graduation, and provide workforce development options for residents. We joined forces with a vibrant group of innovators comprised of educators, business and civic leaders, faith-based groups, nonprofits, state government, and youth-serving entities to provide access to opportunities.

  • Our goal is to establish these initiatives and investments in the community, and with community input and design. We uplift the voices and lived experiences of residents and leaders — known as Community Messengers, Parent and Youth Ambassadors — to do this crucial work that is at the core of each initiative.

  • Our goal is to raise awareness of the impact of trauma on health and life outcomes in order to address and prevent it. We offer tools for building social-emotional health and resilience, working to prevent trauma by increasing the prevalence of positive childhood experiences with community partners.

Bridgeport Prospers NETWORK IMPACT