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18 actual numbers will be refined during the budget process and you will have an opportunity to vet the specific request at that time. I also ask that you keep in mind that these are five-year projections, but that we are making an even longer-term commitment to these children. In five years, our first cohort of kids will be starting middle school, and our pipeline model requires that we support them until they have graduated from high school college-ready. But we need to take this one step at a time, evaluate diligently, and scale the model accordingly. And lastly, these projections assume that we will not expand the program to additional zones within the next five years, but once we understand what it will cost in our two initial zones, we will be better positioned to be opportunistic if funding becomes available to do that. Pipeline Overview This is our pipeline from cradle to college and career. Here in OC, our focus is on building the pipeline by expanding and enhancing existing supports and then filling in the gaps. Before going into the budget numbers, I am going to give an overview of the main components of the pipeline and highlight what gaps we have already identified and begun to fill. Goal 1 of our pipeline is that children are healthy and prepared for school. We heard loud and clearly during our gap analysis that families did not feel their children were ready for Kindergarten, so the first program we launched was our K Readiness summer camp, which has been evaluated by UNC and participating children are showing promising gains. There are other critical pieces in this goal area, such as quality prenatal care, access to high quality affordable childcare and pre-K, etc. In goal area #2, which is that children are healthy and succeed in school, we know that children from less affluent families are experiencing the "summer slide". This is a loss of academic gains and can be prevented by providing evidence-based, literacy-focused summer enrichment and afterschool opportunities. FSA is partnering with schools to offer this support, as well as enhance the afterschool opportunities. We are also partnering with local orgs to ensure students receive mentoring, and have ... FSA has not yet focused on goal area #3... For Goal 4, our current strategic plan includes several items, such as starting college savings accounts for FSA enrolled children. We also know there are other important supports for families and neighborhoods. Across all of the goal areas, our navigator program has helped to link families with resources and schools, but also to serve as peer coaches for parents and keep the community's voice at the center of our work. Lastly, the Health Department provides backbone support for the collaboration, which includes evaluation, community engagement, strategic planning & communications, and development. FSA is empowering families and strengthening their support system, which we call the pipeline. We are a convener in the community that pulls partners together and uses community voice to identify and fill gaps in the pipeline. FSA has worked with the school districts directly to create and fund new programming, like K Readiness, where there are gaps in the zones. FSA also works with community partners to target their interventions in the zone. In some cases partner work is funded through FSA. For example, two years ago, UW shifted its funding approach — instead of directly funding nonprofits, they are funding collaboratives. Budget: Core Components • Navigators