On The Move presented our work on the McPherson Neighborhood Initiative to the NVUSD BOARD on May 1, 2008 Watch the video from the meeting

The McPherson Neighborhood Initiative is a community effort to engage local leadership among low-income Latino youth and families. The McPherson Neighborhood, as well as McPherson Elementary School, has a high concentration of Latino and low-income families. On The Move is working with families and partner agencies to establish educational excellence; community and youth leadership; parents engaged in fulfilling their family’s needs for health and wellbeing; engagement of low-income and affordable housing residents; increased access to and co-location of social, economic and health services; and overall improvement of the quality of life in the neighborhood.

What’s next? Over the next three years OTM plans to work with residents of all ages to develop opportunities of all kinds for the children and youth of the neighborhood including educational and health programming and parent involvement both in the schools and through family resource centers.

McPherson Neighborhood Town Hall Meeting
On January 16, 2008 a town hall meeting took place at McPherson Elementary School . Two hundred members from the McPherson community came together to discuss the realities and possibilites for their neighborhood.

McPherson Neighborhood Town Hall Meeting Photos

Here are the agenda and outcomes from the event: