Focus Sectors
Recognizing a growing sense of urgency to achieve measurably better outcomes for children and youth in the East St. Louis District 189 footprint, a group of committed stakeholders began laying the foundation for a collective impact process in November 2012. This process, now known as East Side Aligned, envisions a day when all children and youth in the greater East St. Louis community are supported—physically, intellectually, emotionally—and ready for success in school, work and life.