The Alliance is comprised of the seven schools located in Hunts Point and 18 community based organizations that directly support children in our community.

These 25 Alliance member organizations provide resources for the intellectual, social, emotional, and physical health and well-being of local children. As a collective, these organizations create a culturally-rich community with opportunities for children and families to explore new opportunities to achieve their goals.

As the backbone organization of the Alliance, HPAC has a successful history of bringing people and organizations together to identify and fill community needs. Our aim is to build strong relationships among community leaders, highlight opportunities for students, reduce duplication of efforts, and move towards advocating for system-level change. The Alliance leads ongoing analysis of the gaps in supportive services for families and children, and either recruits new partners, or engages organizations to collaboratively create new supportive programs.

Photo of alliance team members working.jpg — The long-term vision for the Alliance is to continue to target areas of specific need within the community and focus and resources, with the eventual goal of developing these initiatives into self-sustaining community efforts.

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In 2008, local schools met with HPAC leaders to address the lack of early childhood services in Hunts Point and the low kindergarten readiness of incoming students. HPAC partnered with Jumpstart, a national literacy program, and the New York Center for Child Development, a city-wide social-emotional provider, to bring services to Hunts Point schools and programs. Simultaneously, HPAC launched its own early childhood service program, beginning a community-wide conversation about the importance of early childhood education that resonates today and has empowered parents and providers to seek more wrap-around programming. As we move forward, our vision is that the Alliance will continue to incubate programs that eventually become community led.

Learn more about the Hunts Point Community Partnership and Our Children’s Journey.

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More recently, Urban Health Plan and HPAC launched an Alliance Action Group that directly engaged community members in advocating for community improvements and building social capital. The group of residents, now known as Healthy Hunts Point, achieved several important victories including new stop signs and stop lights to protect pedestrians. The group is now a free-standing initiative that meets monthly to continue their advocacy agenda, regularly hosting community clean-ups and participating in local initiatives such as Participatory Budgeting.

In 2019, HPAC was awarded a multiyear grant through New York City’s Administration of Children’s Services (ACS) to build capacity and deepen the collective work in Hunts Point through the Community Partnership Program (CPP). In partnership with ACS, HPAC is the backbone organization of the Hunts Point Community Partnership, and will implement the Our Children’s Journey Initiative, a community effort focused on ensuring all Hunts Point children have access to resources—prenatal to age eight—that set the stage for long-term well-being.