PAACT: Promise All Atlanta Children Thrive

PAACT: Promise All Atlanta Children Thrive is a citywide alliance of public and private partners collaborating to improve learning, health, and well-being outcomes for Atlanta's youngest children and their families.

The opportunity divide in Atlanta starts as early as birth. Families with young children face housing, health care, and child care costs that are increasingly out of reach. Many of Atlanta's youngest children are impacted by systems of inequity, stunting their ability to reach their full potential. No child should be deprived of their opportunity to thrive.

PAACT was born from a leadership council convened by GEEARS in 2018. The Atlanta Early Education Leadership Council (AEELC) consisted of leaders from both public and private sectors including local government, state agencies, business, faith, health, philanthropic, and early education communities. By bringing this group together we developed a shared vision, bold yet actionable strategies, and the funding and citywide commitment needed to sustain this work to ensure that all children in Atlanta have the opportunity to reach their full potential.

Mission: To improve outcomes for Atlanta's children ages birth through five, we develop partnerships to secure commitments from Atlanta's leaders in government, education, community, and business sectors.

Our Role: We convene and work alongside Atlanta's leaders in government, education, community organizations and the business sector to support and fund programs aimed at providing high quality educational opportunities and resources for every family with a child under 5 years old in the City of Atlanta. In an era of inequity and at a time where we invest the least during the age at which a child develops the most, our goal is to ensure that a child's zip code does not determine his or her outcome.