Partnership for Children & Youth (PCY) believes all children need opportunities to learn beyond the school day and year to build skills and relationships, expand their horizons, access social capital, and discover their passions.

PCY improves learning opportunities and conditions for youth by increasing access and quality of expanded learning programs in California: from the implementation of the 2006 landmark afterschool measure Prop. 49, to the unprecedented $4 billion investment in expanded learning in 2022.

Our policy and practice experts work both in the field and in the state capitol to incubate new ideas, build capacity and coalitions, and change systems.

Our Vision

All children and youth have the learning opportunities and supports they need and deserve to reach their greatest potential in school and life.

Our Mission

By strategically linking practice and policy, we make sure that children and youth in the most under-resourced communities receive quality expanded learning opportunities and that all their learning environments—school, afterschool, and summer—support their academic, social, emotional, and physical well-being.

Our Values

In all that we do, we strive to live our core values of Equity, Authenticity, Collaboration, and Learning.

Racial Equity and Inclusion at PCY

Our Vision for Equity

At PCY, we envision spaces of belonging—for young people, parents, caregivers, families, and in the workforce—that are co-created and built through shared power and lived experiences.

Our Commitment to Equity

Partnership for Children & Youth strives to give all children and youth the learning opportunities and supports they need and deserve to reach their greatest potential in school and life. We can’t achieve this if we don’t confront the racist practices and policies deeply ingrained in our educational systems that make lives invisible and purposefully harm our multifaceted communities. For PCY, equity is an ongoing and active commitment to personal introspection and an ongoing effort to learn, listen, and rebuild in a way that is authentic, redistributes power, and starts from the lived experiences of our collective communities. Partnership for Children & Youth is committed to racial equity in our internal work practices and structures through our role as a public-serving intermediary bridging practice and policy.

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