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Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) SRFC Safe Schools/Healthy Students Initiative (SSIHS) Connections Grant Partners of Suburban Ramsey County the ground by engaging in ongoing focus groups, parent and youth surveys, parent/youth advisory councils, cultural leader advisory councils, low income/subsidized housing resident advisory boards (via Polynesian Village Supportive Housing Partnership; Maple Pond Homes Supportive Housing Partnership, Montreal Courts Supportive Housing Partnership and Cedar View Town Homes Supportive Housing Partnership) and other dialogues to continue involving students, parents, families and community members in the design, implementation and continuous improvement of SRFC and the continuum of care and to learn of and address emergent needs in the Suburban Ramsey communities. SRFC has changed circumstances in our communities from conditions of risk to conditions that protect. They have done this by diligently adhering to three key principals: Reality -Testing, Research and Results Accountability: n talking to children, youth and their parents to determine what's important to them, what their strengths and needs are and how we can help (Reality -Testing), o combining their input with what research says works (Research), and v allocating human, financial and in-kind resources toward strategies that have the best chance at making a positive, life -changing impact (Results Accountability). SRFC Vision statement. "Suburban Ramsey County is a community where our children and youth's safety, security, health and learning are a priorityfor all and no child remains at risk. " Community Engagement In December of 2005, these partners embarked on a social marketing campaign to engage a larger, more diverse multi -sector and inter -generational partnership to bring awareness to the ever growing needs of children, youth and families, the declining resources to meet these needs and the urgency to make children and youth's health, learning, safety and security a public priority in our communities. 130 children, youth, parents, policy makers, practitioners and community members came to the event and 101 participants engaged in a discussion around how we can all work together to support children, youth and families experiencing at -risk circumstances and conditions in our communities. This initiative is called "How are the Children?" It is designed to engage, inform and mobilize multiple and diverse sectors of the community including minority and majority voices and perspectives to develop into strong community leaders that influence the public priorities in our communities. They will form the How Are the Children Community Advisory Council (CAC). Members will be responsible for continuing to identify strengths, needs, problems and concerns and recommend practical and comprehensive solutions that will aid in the improvement of all children, youth and families lives in Suburban Ramsey County so as to ensure that no child at risk. Page 2 of 16