Resilient neighborhoods begin with you.
Our mission is to build community resilience that strengthens families and supports world-class education in Salem-Keizer.
We believe families are the solution. That’s why we’ve made it our goal to amplify the voices of neighborhood residents to effect lasting change at a local level.
What is CBEL?
The CBEL Collaborative is driven by the purpose that every child should grow up in a safe, stable, nurturing home, enjoy good health, succeed in school and go on in life to become financially self-sufficient. The most important thing children need to flourish are safe, stable, and nurturing relationships that begin with family and extend to friends and neighbors. Children who are at the greatest risk for the poorest outcomes in learning, in health, and in behavior are children who experience a pile up of adversity. This could include poverty; parents who have experienced incarceration, mental health challenges, or addiction; foster care and more. At some point, the burden becomes more than any child should be expected to overcome.
So we brought together leaders in our community to ask ourselves what could be done to help us identify solutions and magnify community voices. We formed the CBEL Collaborative and identified 3 key collective impact initiatives that could help us achieve these goals:
The Mid-Willamette Valley Homeless Alliance,
The Marion Polk Early Learning Hub, and
The Fostering Hope Initiative.
To effectively and transparently measure our results we decided to use Results Based Accountability and to ensure representation and results that accurately reflect the lived experiences of our entire community, we made a commitment to promoting Racial Justice and Reconciliation and developing the Neighborhood Family Councils – the keystone holding the collaborative and its mission together. By leveraging shared resources and putting the voices of our neighbors at the heart of every conversation, we can help bridge the gap between adversities and our desired outcomes.
Together, we can build a safer, more stable, and nurturing future for the children and greater community of Salem-Keizer.
Together, we can build community resilience that strengthens families and supports world-class education.
Every two months, we convene a group of community leaders to hear from CBEL-sponsored Neighborhood Family Councils and representatives of local Collective Impact Initiatives. We focus on ways to ensure that every child grows up in a safe, stable, nurturing home, enjoys good health, succeeds in school, and goes on in life to become financially self-sufficient.
RECENT IMPACT STORIES & NEWS!
UPCOMING EVENTS
How do we measure impact?
Using national Building Community Resilience research, along with local data, CBEL has determined two main indicators of success:
Child & Family Homelessness
Kindergarten Readiness
We measure our impact in these areas using Results-Based Accountability—a framework utilized globally to effect lasting community change.
DID YOU KNOW?
More than 40% of youth and young adults enrolled in Medicaid/Children’s Health Insurance Program living in Marion County, Oregon have experienced three or more of the following:
Poverty (Parental or Self)
Foster Care
Parental Death
Parental Incarceration
Mental Health (Parental or Self)
Substance Abuse (Parental or Self)
Child Abuse and Neglect
Potential Language Barrier
Parental Disability
Data Source: Oregon Pediatric Improvement Partnership, OHA, DHSStay in the loop. Help us build the bridge.
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