--WHO WE ARE

HISTORY

Founded in 1978, Urban Strategies is a not-for-profit corporation that works with its development partner, McCormack Baron Salazar, to help communities build safe neighborhoods, good schools, and a range of comprehensive human service supports. Our goal is to lead distressed, urban-core residential communities and low-income families toward positive social and economic mobility.

Urban Strategies understands that the physical revitalization of housing by itself is not sufficient to create communities which produce social and economic integration.

In order to create successful and thriving mixed-income developments, a network of community support systems must be planned and implemented concurrent with the development of new housing. These supportive services often include:

• Adult education, job training, job retention and economic development programs
• High quality and reliable child care
• Access to quality education for children, youth and adults
• Employment opportunities for youth
• Family support programs
• Initiatives around personal and community safety
• Senior and intergenerational activities

Urban Strategies works with communities that are undergoing revitalization to plan and implement this network of community services that can ensure successful transformation.