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poverty line in Orange County is White, followed by gap and end generational poverty in Orange County. African American and Hispanic/Latinx62. FSA was designed to reduce the effects of poverty on Poverty guidelines are identified based on family size development and academic achievement by fulfilling practices that are responsive to the priorities and needs and income to determine financial eligibility for federal of children and their families, and by affecting larger programs. Programs using the guidelines (or percent- systems and policy change. FSA works to address the age multiples of the guidelines —for instance, 125% or needs of the community through individual-level and 185%of the guidelines) in determining eligibility include system-level strategies that are implemented via various Head Start, SNAP, the National School Lunch Program, FSA programs and partnerships. FSA's programs are: the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program, and the Navigator Program - a peer support program for the Children's Health Insurance Proaram63, low-income, at-risk families; the Connections Program Among survey responders: - support that allows FSA to maintain contact with families formerly assigned to a navigator and provides • 8.16% of participants shared that they do not have services to families on the Family Navigator waitlist to enough financial resources to meet basic needs, ensure that needs are addressed pending a navigator including food, shelter, clothing, utilities, etc. assignment; the Community Council - a collaborative partnership between local community leaders and FSA Childhood Poverty family navigators to create positive change on individ- Young children are more likely than older children to live ual, institutional, and systemic levels; and the Partner below the poverty line. In 2016, in NC, approximately Network- a collaboration with cross-sector agencies to one in four children ages 0-5 lived in poverty, compared center parent expertise and priorities to problem solve to one in five older children, with American Indian, Afri- and work towards positive and sustaining outcomes for can American, and Hispanic/Latinx children being more families. likely to live in low-income families. Despite making For several years, FSA has sponsored a four-week Kin- up only 41% of the child population, African American dergarten Readiness camp in the two zones of Orange and Hispanic/Latinx children account for 63% of NC's County where FSA was being piloted, to include four children in poverty. Among all 100 counties in 2014, the elementary schools. To date, 378 rising kindergarteners 20 highest poverty rates in the state were all in rural have participated in the program. The Kindergarten counties49. Readiness camps have shown to have a great impact The Family Success Alliance (FSA) is a collective impact on children in attendance over the years. To measure initiative with the explicit goal to close the achievement the success of the program, UNC conducted evalua- tions that suggested that children who engaged in the program gained increased attentional, basic reading, Figure 14: Poverty by Race/Ethnicity 50% 40% 30% 20% 10% 0% � White Black Hispanic Asian Two Or More Other Native American Pacific Islander 11 Asian [] Black []Hispanic © Native American 11 Other © Pacific Islander 11 Two Or Mare []White 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 26 2019 COMMUNITY HEALTH ASSESSMENT