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TRANSFORMATION PLANcapacity to treat 50,000 patients per year.The Clinic will employ 50 persons.• St. Philip’s College will provide healthcare training at the new Clinic. WheatleyCourts and Eastside residents will beprioritized for enrollment.Establish a Healthy Start Case Managementposition. 2 San Antonio Healthy Startwas launched in March 2002 as a programaimed at improving birth outcomes in ourcommunity. Healthy Start assists pregnantwomen and their families to get the carethey need to make sure their babies areborn healthy and stay healthy.Establish a Comprehensive Community-Based Health Education position. 3 HealthEducation efforts would encompass a widebreadth of public health issues, such asChronic Disease Self-Management, DiabetesSelf-Management, Dental Health, Nutrition,Exercise, Breastfeeding support, WIC,Healthy Homes, and Immunizations.Partner with WORTH (Working on Real TeenHealth). Mission: Inspire youth and empowerparents to prevent teen pregnancy byusing evidence-based programs, promotinghealthy behaviors and cultivating communityrelationships.Partner with San Antonio CommunityDiabetes Project (SADP). This communityfocusedproject strives to build greatercapacity for nutrition education, physicalactivity groups, and diabetes and chronicdisease self-management programs in SanAntonio. Classes are offered in communitybasedsettings and are conducted in Englishand Spanish.EDUCATIONThe solutions feature cradle-to-careereducational initiatives that will yield micro(individual children and families) and macro-level(school system and neighborhoodrevitalization) change. Key components are:a) reorganized feeder patterns to connectneighborhoods more directly to schools; b)adoption of an integrated STEM focus fromearly childhood through high school, toenhance academic success and employability;c) conversion of a middle school withdeclining enrollment into a STEM-focusedPK–8th grade academy open to all EPN children;and, d) alignment with the Mayor ofSan Antonio’s SA2020 educational improvementprocess that seeks to foster citywidekinder readiness and new postsecondaryeducational opportunities.To create new educational assets andimproved outcomes for Eastside school-agestudents, EPN has structured a three-tiersystem to impact students at all stages.Children Enter Kindergarten Ready to LearnA high quality, well-aligned system of educationand support for young children thatbridges early childhood programs and K–12education can help improve outcomes forEASTIDE PROMISE NEIGHBORHOODThe United Way of San Antonio and Bexar County (UW), on behalf of the Eastside PromiseNeighborhood (EPN) Advisory Board, received federal Promise Neighborhood Implementation(PNI) funds from the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) in FY2011. These federalfunds will be used to implement a continuum of solutions intentionally selected to improveeducational and developmental outcomes in children and youth from the Eastside ChoiceNeighborhood and their families. This unique and highly collaborative opportunity to integrateefforts between Choice Neighborhoods and EPN/PNI has led to a comprehensive educationplan strategy.*1* The core elements of the education strategies are included in the Choice Neighborhood Transformation Plan. For full details, go to the PromiseNeighborhood website at: http://eastsidepromise.org/EASTSIDE CHOICE NEIGHBORHOOD TRANSFORMATION PLAN2 Position would focus primarily on future residents of Wheatley Courts.3 Position would focus primarily on future residents of Wheatley Courts35