All Children Thrive (ACT)

All Children Thrive (ACT) is focused on building a movement of communities that are working to optimize children's health and wellbeing.  Places - including neighborhoods, cities, counties, regions, and states - are implementing and testing new ways to reverse worsening trends of child and young people health.

In California, the state has launched a statewide All Children Thrive-California (ACT-CA) initiative to support transformation of city systems to improve child and family well-being. All Children Thrive (ACT-CA) is an equity-focused, community-driven initiative to develop, test, and refine the tools that support our diverse communities in preventing and healing adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and promote child and family wellbeing

ACT-CA's strategies include:

• Engaging and activating cities to become ACT cities. We work with cities in implementing evidence-based policies and practices in improving child wellbeing.
• Helping a few of the ACT cities become Transformation Hubs. We help cities employ user-centered design, networked improvements, and rapid cycle innovation and improvement strategies to achieve targeted high priority outcomes.
• Build the capacity of some cities to implement systems improvements.  We promote the adoption of capacity building strategies, such as enhancing data infrastructure, creating permanent city level leadership on child wellbeing, or designing a 10-year blueprint for child wellbeing.
• Developing an ACT-informed Data Infrastructure. We provide the tools to help cities monitor key measures of child development and wellbeing.

For more information, please visit the ACT-CA website: All Children Thrive-California.

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