Orlando Mayor Dyer and Experts with the Harlem Children’s Zone Host the Florida Children’s Initiative Replication Workshop

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Orlando Mayor Dyer and Experts with the Harlem Children’s Zone Host the Florida Children’s Initiative Replication Workshop

WHAT:	Tomorrow, Orlando Mayor Dyer and experts from the Harlem Children’s Zone will offer insight and best practices to representatives from across the state of Florida on how to launch and sustain a successful children’s initiative during the Florida Children’s Initiative Replication Workshop on May 26 and 27, 2010. Participants will also have the opportunity to tour and get an inside look into Mayor Dyer’s Parramore Kidz Zone (PKZ) program, the first Florida model of the esteemed Harlem Children’s Zone (HCZ) project. “We are thrilled with the positive changes Parramore Kidz Zone has brought to Orlando and honored that Harlem Children’s Zone is partnering with us to host this event,” said Mayor Dyer. “This is a landmark opportunity for cities to join together to replicate this proven model for the benefit of children throughout the State of Florida.” The two-day conference is sponsored by PKZ, Ounce of Prevention Fund of Florida, and Edyth Bush Charitable Foundation.
WHO:	Orlando Mayor Dyer Harlem Children’s Zone Parramore Kidz Zone Ounce of Prevention Fund of Florida Edyth Bush Charitable Foundation
WHEN:	Wednesday, May 26 and Thursday, May 27, 2010
MEDIA WINDOW:	Wednesday, May 26 at 11:15 a.m.
WHERE:	City Hall – 9th Floor Overlook Room 400 S. Orange Avenue
HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE: The HCZ Project is a unique, holistic approach to rebuilding a community so that its children can stay on track through college and go on to the job market. The goal is to create a "tipping point" in the neighborhood so that children are surrounded by an enriching environment of college-oriented peers and supportive adults, a counterweight to "the street.” The HCZ model has gained recognition as the template for President Obama’s Promise Neighborhoods proposal, a federal initiative which will provide competitive, 1-year planning grants to non-profit, community-based organizations to support the development of plans for comprehensive neighborhood programs, designed to combat the effects of poverty and improve education and life outcomes for children, from birth through college.
PARRAMORE KIDZ ZONE: Modeled after the Harlem Children’s Zone, PKZ employs creative outreach to engage a critical mass of Parramore’s children and linking them to positive opportunities, including pre-kindergarten education, parenting education, health care, mentoring, tutoring, and constructive activities when school is out. PKZ is also the only project in the nation that the Harlem Children Zone allows to use its trademarked “zone” term.
OUNCE OF PREVENTION FUND OF FLORIDA: Founded in 1989, The Ounce of Prevention Fund of Florida is a private, nonprofit corporation dedicated to shaping prevention policy and investing in innovative prevention programs that provide measurable benefits for Florida’s most vulnerable children and families. Among the Ounce of Prevention Fund’s signature programs is Healthy Families Florida, a nationally accredited child abuse prevention program.

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