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<br /> <br />Orange County Looks to Harlem Initiative to Help Kids <br />in Poverty <br /> <br />By Danny Hooley <br />Posted April 8, 2015 at 8:32 am <br /> <br />Orange County is taking steps to address the effects of poverty on children, “from cradle to <br />college” and beyond. <br />A county initiative called the Family Success Alliance is modeled after the Harlem Children’s <br />Zone, an acclaimed New York program that works to keep Harlem kids on the track toward <br />college graduation. <br />“We were inspired by the work of the Harlem Children’s Zone,” said Meredith Stewart, program <br />manager of the Orange County Health Department, “because of their focus on picking a specific <br />geographic area and saying, ‘How do we work with families and children in that geographic area <br />or zone, to really create changes at scale?’ <br />“So we want to see changes in the community, not just at the individual level, but at the <br />community level.” <br />Two out of six local zones being considered were selected as pilot zones for the project. <br />Wednesday, from 5 until 7, partners from Zone 4 – the area between I-40 and I-85 in central <br />Orange County – will join members of the FSA for a public meeting at A.L. Stanback Middle <br />School, at 3700 NC 86 South, in Hillsborough.