TCYC Program & Initiatives

Building Connections-Building Communities (BC2):
BC2 is an abuse and neglect prevention project. BC2 is based upon research that indicates parents who neglect and abuse their children are socially isolated from formal and informal support systems.

BC2 has two integrated components that seek to de-isolate families at risk of abusing or neglecting their children:  Prevention Component and Intervention Component.

Children's Neighborhood Networks (CNN):
A CNN is a neighborhood-based, neighborhood-led initiative focusing on the lives of familes with children, particularly young children. Designed to revitalize a sense of community involvement in the lives of children, a CNN will stimulate a vital, sustainable neighborhood level support system for families, a support system recognizing that government and non-profit programs cannot replace an active, involved community of caring individuals. A CNN is very much like a Crime Watch or Neighborhood Association - but the focus is children.

Middle School Intervention Project (MSSIP):
MSSIP is a comprehensive community effort to reconnect the students in a Tarrant County middle school both from within the school (faculty) and from outside the school (the immediate community within the middle school attendance zone). The intervention is designed to generate an immediate and profound change in student perceptions of how the adulst in their lives care about them.

BONDS:  Building Opportunties for Neighborhood Development Services:
BONDS combines and replicates the projects of BC2, CNN, and MSSIP to create a successful trifecta project for a community in need of decreasing social isolation to reduce child abuse and neglect. BONDS will work within in the community to contruct leadership development and community cohesiveness. BONDS works to rally community members to take ownership of their schools and children while assisting schools with programs and activities that the community thinks will be beneficial to the childrean and youth based on community concerns and obstacles.

Dancing Classrooms North Texas (DCNT):
DCNT is an educational experience that focuses on the social development needs of elementary school children through the use of ballroom dancing. The fifth graders participating in DCNT will:

• improve their ability to relate to peers from other cultural groups,
• improve their social skills,
• improve their ability to manage their behavior,
• increase their respect for other,
• significantly impact childhood obesity issues, and,
• decrease school absenteeism, improve their grades, and increase their chances for graduation.

Arlington Child Care Council (ACCC):
ACCC focuses on ensuring that all Arlington children will experience quality early childhood development opportunities and will enter school ready to learn through improving the quality, accessibility and utilization of informal and formal child care opportunities in Arlington.

The Partnership for Children (PFC):
The PFC is a collaboration of Tarrant County organizations and individuals that focus on three broad early childhood issues:

• Early Childhood Health (includes physical and mental health issues),
• Early Childhood Safety (includes neglect & abuse issues),
• Early Care & Education (primarily licensed/regulated child care, but also includes informal care giving, school readiness, ISD pre-K and Kindergarten issues).

The PFC is positioned to link these three issues and explore more sustainable community solutions for addressing them.