In 2017, United Way of Greater Atlanta launched the Child Well-Being Movement—a movement to unite people and resources across sectors to make lasting improvements in the well-being of children, families and the communities that surround them. Our guiding question is “how are the children?” United, we’re working toward a future where we can respond with “all the children are well.”
Our Child Well-Being Agenda is built on a clear vision of what communities look like when all the children are well:
Babies are born healthy.
Children grow up in secure homes and safe neighborhoods and have healthy food and access to medical care.
Kids read proficiently by third grade.
Teens graduate from high school prepared for college, careers and life.
Families are financially stable.
Adults are educated, employed and housed.
We developed the Child Well-Being Index as a diagnostic tool to tell us where each neighborhood stands in their progress toward saying, “all the children are well.” We use the Index insights as a compass to collectively, with nonprofit, business and government partners, direct resources in ways that can most powerfully improve child well-being and transform lives for the better.
The Index incorporates data from multiple sources. Neighborhood Nexus is the primary data partner for the United Way of Greater Atlanta Child Well-Being Index. In this role, they gather and maintain the data from the various sources, including the Georgia Department of Education, Georgia Department of Public Health and the U.S. Census Bureau.