Sacramento ACT Meadowview Partnership

Sacramento ACT Meadowview Partnership

The Community
Located in the south area of Sacramento, Meadowview is an ethnically diverse community with a mixture of low- and moderate-income residents. Bordered by Interstate 5, Franklin Boulevard, Florin Road and the neighborhoods south of Meadowview Road, it has a population of more than 37,000. Students at the six schools represent many ethnic backgrounds, including African-American, Caucasian, Chinese, Hmong, Lao, Latino, Mien and Tongan.

The Coalition
The Meadowview Partnership is a grassroots, community-led endeavor. Using community organizing, we are creating leadership opportunities and making long-term, meaningful change for Meadowview youth.

We are comprised of an exciting variety of community stakeholders that actively support youth development principles. Our partnership consists of schools, congregations, community groups, neighborhood groups, after-school programming and local government.

The goal of the Sacramento ACT Meadowview Partnership is to UNLOCK THE POWER OF YOUTH in Meadowview.

We strive to guide young people into adulthood with a broad set of tools and opportunities. By involving Meadowview youth in a process of community organizing and leadership development, we believe they will learn important leadership skills, develop a lifelong commitment to community involvement and activism, and take greater ownership of their community and their own lives.

Through youth and adult organizing, we also seek to have a long-term impact on how major youth-serving institutions ― particularly schools, congregations and city government ― help prepare youth for lifelong success.

Contact: Alicia Ross
Phone: (916) 447-7959
E-mail: Alicia@sacact.org

Meadowview conference sets stage to "change the view"

May 2008

by Shuntae Campbell
Youth Organizer
Sacramento ACT Meadowview Partnership

ED GabyThe Meadowview community is a place where many youth have experienced an increase in youth issues. Statistically, the Meadowview community is deemed to be a “bad” neighborhood. Sacramento Area Congregations Together took notice of this, thus, creating the ACT Meadowview Partnership.

Meadowview Partnership Mayoral Candidates Forum

May 19 2008 - 6:30pm
May 19 2008 - 8:30pm

Join Sacramento Area Congregations Together and the Meadowview Partnership to hear the candidates' views on youth programs and services, job opportunities for youth, and improving high school graduation and college-going rates. The event will be held at the Luther Burbank High School auditorium, 3500 Florin Road in Sacramento.

Meadowview Community Profile Data

The links below provide data collected by the coalition for use in preparing the 2006-2007 Meadowview Youth Community Profile.

Meadowview Secondary Data

The links below provide secondary data for each school within the Meadowview coalition. The data sources include the California Department of Education, U.S. Census 2000, and the CA Department of Social Services via UC Berkeley. More information is available at the CA Healthy Kids Survey reports.