America's Promise Alliance believes the success of our nation’s young people is grounded in experiencing key wraparound supports, the Five Promises (Caring Adults, Safe Places, A Healthy Start, An Effective Education, and Opportunities to Help Others) – in all aspects of their daily lives. The Five Promises are key to young people thriving in life, graduating from high school and bring prepared for college and the working world.
Our research shows that less than one-third of America's young people have experienced enough of these Promises to be successful.
The Alliance wants to improve the lives of 15 million young people in the next five years by delivering more of the Five Promises to those most at-risk. To do this, our Alliance partners have agreed to collaborate on three National Action Strategies:
All Kids Covered
Improving the health of children, which we believe is a prerequisite for a successful school experience. The Alliance wants to make sure all children in the U.S. who are eligible for publicly funded health insurance programs are enrolled in those plans.
Where the Kids Are
Investment in the daily lives of disadvantaged youth is the best way to produce the most dramatic results. By bringing partners together, the Alliance wants all Five Promises to be available through the places kids spend their time. The Alliance will work to create strong, integrated and coordinated local programs dedicated to helping young people succeed.
Ready for the Real World
Middle school-aged children need more opportunities to connect what they learn in school to the possibilities open to them in the future. The Alliance aims to provide quality service-learning and career exploration experiences to youth at a time when the choices they make can set them down the path to a productive and successful future.
Alliance Priority: Dropout Prevention
Before today ends, another 3,000 students will drop out of high school and before the year ends, more than one million will have left school. We don’t have a dropout problem; we have a dropout crisis.
Beginning now through 2010, the Alliance and partners including State Farm Insurance, Casey Family Programs and Ford Motor Company Fund will sponsor fifty state-based and fifty city-based summits with a simply stated but complex goal: develop solutions to help more young people graduate from high school ready for college, work and life.
15 in 5 Campaign Network Site
What role will you play to help improve the lives of young people in your community? This 15 in 5 Campaign Network web site is the best way for individuals, organizations and partners in the America’s Promise Alliance to find, learn from, and inspire each other. As a member of the site, you’ll find the people, the tools and the information you need to improve the lives of children in your community. Think of the site as your tool kit and your reference book -- your daily first stop in achieving the goals you’ve set out to accomplish.
Learn more about the 15 in 5 Campaign Network or go to the homepage to view the Site Tour.