• Improve the school readiness of children through policies and programs directed to increasing early literacy.  (A strategy to achieve this goal is being pursued by the Early Learning Opportunities Act (ELOA) Council with the United Way of Greater St. Louis providing coordination of that initiative.)
  

Safe Neighborhoods & Juvenile Justice Strategies

• Improve access to mental health and substance abuse services for at-risk youth. 
  Lead Agency: Provident Counseling
  
• Provide life opportunities and support services for disconnected youth and school dropouts. 
  Lead Agency: Covenant House Missouri
  
• Expand gang outreach activities,taking the Boston Ceasefire Program model in St. Louis to scale. 
  Lead Agency: Kid’s Hope United and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern Missouri District