
Youth Success
Request for Proposals
Do you help youth ages 6 to 24 in our seven-county region?
Apply for our Youth Success RFP!
Open Monday, January 23 to Friday, February 10
We envision a community in which everyone can access EDUCATION that inspires and equips, ECONOMIC MOBILITY that meets needs and builds futures, and HEALTH that provides strength and hope.
– Out of 1,600 census tracks across our 17 peer cities, 2 of the 10 highest rates of poverty are census tracts in west Louisville.
– Eviction rate is twice the national average.
– In health outcomes, we rank 16th out of 17 cities combining several measures of length and quality of life.
– We rank 11th out of 17 cities in education among the working-age population.
– We’ve dropped from 5th in 2005 to 8th in 2018 in median earnings adjusted for inflation.
– Gaps between whites and people of color, and between advantaged and disadvantaged neighborhoods, have remained wide.
– Louisville ranks 46th out of 53 large cities in geographic inclusion and 30th for racial inclusion.
– There were 17,000 disconnected youth (homeless, foster care, criminal justice system, or not employed or in school) in our community in December 2019. That number is well over 32,000 today.
– 12,000 single-parent female heads of households with children were at immediate risk of homelessness pre-COVID.
– Nearly 50% of students entering JCPS were are already behind before the pandemic and are at risk of falling further behind in a virtual environment, exacerbated by our community’s digital divide.
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