East End Partnership for Families Program

The East End Partnership for Families project is a collaboration where Institute staff work to build leadership capacity among partner organizations and residents in the East End section of Richmond.

Growing out of Richmond’s work with the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Children’s Mental Health Initiative in the early 1990s, the East End Partnership for Families is a group of human service agencies and community groups whose mission is “Working together to improve the lives of East End children and families — With Respect — With Equality — With Hope.”

Partnership members
Memorial Child Guidance
East District Manager and the East District Initiative
East End Families First (Health Start/Healthy Families)
Challenge Discovery
Vernon J. Harris Community Health Center
East District Family Resource Center and Board
East Team Board
Parent Resource Network
East District Teen Center

Projects
The East End Partnership for Families’ current focus is on establishing coordinated services, reducing violence and its negative outcomes, and improving educational outcomes. The Institute is the partnership’s “learning partner” and specifically provides the group with facilitation, leadership development and evaluation.

Financial Support
Funding from the Annie E. Casey Foundation supports the East End Partnership as well as our work in the project “Accessing Data for Positive Community Change,” a collaborative effort between VCU and local organizations.