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UNICEF CHILD FRIENDLY CITIES INITIATIVE

BILLBOARD

CONTACT

Name
Mara
Mintzer

PHONE

720-310-5781

WHEN WE MAKE OUR COMMUNITIES BETTER PLACES FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH, WE MAKE THEM
BETTER PLACES FOR ALL.

The City of Boulder is partnering with UNICEF USA and Growing Up Boulder to work
towards formal recognition as a UNICEF Child Friendly City. The goal of the
UNICEF Child Friendly Cities Initiative (CFCI) is to identify and prioritize
action steps and mobilize the community to improve young people’s health and
well-being. In Boulder, this work will be co-designed with young people,
including historically underrepresented children and youth.

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* Why Boulder?
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* How can I participate?
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upcoming engagement opportunities.
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PROJECT OVERVIEW

UNICEF Child Friendly Cities Initiative (CFCI) is a framework that engages local
governments together with communities to prioritize the needs of children and
elevate their voices in local governance and decision-making. The United Nations
Children’s Fund (UNICEF) launched CFCI in 1996 to protect children’s rights in
an increasingly urbanized and decentralized world. This framework helps to
identify areas of success and growth and creates a common vision among programs
and services that support youth. That foundation leads to action plans that help
children and youth thrive in ways that were previously unimagined.

* Listen to "Let's Talk Boulder" podcast episode on Child Friendly Cities
* Youth Action Plan Workshop Events

WHY BOULDER?

While Growing Up Boulder has been supporting youth engagement for 13 years, and
the city’s Youth Opportunities Advisory Board (YOAB) brings teen voices to city
planning, the structural support from the UNICEF CFCI Framework of Action offers
a new way to bring city departments together to align efforts and further reach
populations that experience structural and systemic inequities. Becoming an
official UNICEF Child Friendly City would allow Boulder to be formally
recognized for our work and elevate our impact to the next level.

A city's commitment to children doesn't end once it is recognized as a UNICEF
Child Friendly City; instead, it continues to build upon the relationships and
plans it developed during the recognition process to advance young people's
well-being. Additionally, the City of Boulder has the option to renew its
collaboration with UNICEF USA after recognition by committing to future program
cycles and adopting a new action plan to deepen, sustain and expand efforts from
the first action plan.

UNICEF’s Child Friendly Cities Initiative is guided by the United Nations
Convention on the Rights of the Child. The Convention is the most rapidly and
widely ratified international human rights treaty in history. The Convention
changed the way children are viewed and treated – i.e., as human beings with a
distinct set of rights, instead of as passive objects of care and charity.

To date, 196 countries have become State Parties to the Convention. The United
States has not ratified the Convention. CFCI is, however, a valuable way for
local communities across the US to signify a commitment to the spirit and ideals
behind the Convention.

Though the MOU is signed with UNICEF USA, formal recognition is as a UNICEF
Child Friendly City.

TIMELINE

CFCI in Boulder will be a multi-year, collaborative process that will start with
a local situation analysis. City staff, partners, young people and adult allies
will look at available public data on child well-being and weigh in about what
they think is and is not going well for Boulder’s children and youth. Based on
this intergenerational planning process, we will then craft a local action plan
that builds on past success and inspires future improvements.

The city is in the fortunate position of having approximately $2 million in seed
money for its action plan from the sale of the Broncos stadium. Our goal is to
let young people guide our decisions in how to spend it. Other funding to
support implementation will be identified once the action plan has been
developed.

After implementing and measuring progress, Boulder will then work with UNICEF
USA to achieve recognition as a UNICEF Child Friendly City.

CFCI recognition in the United States is not an accreditation model. Rather, it
is a transformative process through which local governments and stakeholders
commit to advancing child rights. CFCI is not about creating perfect cities, it
is about improving children’s well-being and building the better future they
deserve.

Joining CFCI2-3 MonthsSign a memorandum of understanding with UNICEF USA, and
designate resources to CFCI. Create an internal Executive Committee to guide the
CFCI process and establish a staff team of CFCI champions. Receive designation
as a Child Friendly City Candidate.Community Engagement2-3 MonthsInvite
nonprofit leaders, business owners, city officials, and youth to join the CFCI
Task Force. Situation Analysis3-4 MonthsAnalyze data and collaborate with the
city’s Youth Opportunities Advisory Board (YOAB) to facilitate community
conversations and better understand the needs and perspectives of children and
youth in our city. Local Action Plan3-6 MonthsWork alongside YOAB to conduct
intergenerational workshops and build a local action plan. Implementation1
YearSustain collective impact and meet regularly to coordinate plan
implementation and measure success. Evaluation & Recognition3 MonthsCelebrate
official CFCI Recognition in meaningful ways. Define plans to renew
collaboration with UNICEF USA and deepen and sustain CFCI efforts in the future.

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

Community Partnership Roundtable (Fall 2023 – Spring 2024)- City of Boulder
staff, Growing Up Boulder staff, and local nonprofit partners gathered to learn
about CFCI and to narrow down which indicators or “questions” to ask children,
youth, caregivers, and service providers to learn about young people’s
well-being in Boulder. Adult feedback built upon youth feedback already garnered
from the City of Boulder’s Youth Opportunities Advisory Board and El Centro
Amistad’s Raices Vivas teens.

Situational Analysis (Government Data + Community Conversations)

A “situational analysis” analyzes the “situation” of young people in a
community. It is composed of quantitative data from government and other sources
and qualitative data from the local community. The data will be reviewed by the
community to determine the priorities for improvement in young people’s lives.

Government Assessment Data (Summer 2023 - Winter 2024) - City staff, Growing Up
Boulder staff, and community partners gathered quantitative data from sources
such as the census, the Healthy Kids Colorado Survey, and Boulder Valley School
District data.

Community Conversations Trainings (Nov. 2023-Feb. 2024) – Growing Up Boulder
staff, with support from consultants Mayamotion Healing and Uka Consulting,
taught educators and youth workers from schools and community-based
organizations about the Child Friendly City Initiative. Trainers then discussed
how to facilitate “community conversations” within their communities using
culturally responsive and flexible approaches, ranging from visual surveys to
storytelling. The goal of “community conversations” was to hear from children,
teens, caregivers, and service providers about their key priorities for
improving young people’s lives in Boulder.

Teen Town Hall (Dec. 2023) – Organized by City of Boulder’s Youth Opportunities
Advisory Board, teens gathered to discuss top priorities and concerns for teens
in Boulder.

Youth Well-Being Assessment (Dec. 2023 – Jan. 2024) – A questionnaire on Be
Heard Boulder, available bilingually for children and adults, gathered general
community feedback about ranked priorities for youth and children in Boulder;
207 people participated in the survey.

Community Partner Engagements (Nov. 2023 – Feb. 2024) - Growing Up Boulder,
Youth Opportunities Advisory Board (YOAB) teens, and nonprofit partners
facilitated Community Conversations using art, voting, open dialogue, and
classroom lessons. A total of 683 participants participated in these
engagements, including children, youth, caregivers and service providers.

Situation Analysis Summary: To date, through Boulder’s CFCI process, Growing Up
Boulder and the City have listened to 900 children, youth, caregivers, and
service providers, 75% of whom are from underserved populations. Based on the
community and government data, young people identified the following priority
themes: 1) improving teen mental health, 2) creating more opportunities for
child and youth voice in government, 3) improving safety in public spaces, and
4) creating more equitable access to out-of-school opportunities.

Next Steps
The city, Growing Up Boulder, and consultants Mayamotion Healing and Uka
Consulting, will next work with tweens and teens to narrow down their priority
issues through two workshops in September and November. A group of teens from
YOAB and the community will then work together as a CFCI Youth Committee, from
January through April 2025, to turn workshop recommendations about priority
issues, and activities to address these issues, into a “Youth Action Plan.” The
CFCI Youth Committee will present the Youth Action Plan to City Council for
approval in spring 2025.

Concurrently, teens will work with Growing Up Boulder and the city to integrate
their priorities into the city’s Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan (BVCP). The
Comprehensive Plan is a document that provides a framework for the community’s
future development and preservation, guiding long-range planning and other
activities shaping Boulder Valley’s built and natural environments. Thus,
policies to address youth-identified disparities and priorities will be enacted
in the short-term via the Youth Action Plan and in the long-term via the
Comprehensive Plan.

CFCI will be a transformative process through which Boulder’s governments and
stakeholders work to ensure sustainable results for children and commit to
advancing child rights over time.

WHAT DOES A CHILD-FRIENDLY CITY LOOK LIKE?

* A place where children are safe and protected from exploitation, violence and
abuse
* A place to have a good start in life and grow up healthy and cared for; a
place to have access to essential services
* A place to experience quality, inclusive and participatory education and
skills development
* A place to express their opinions and influence decisions that affect them
* A place to participate in family, cultural, community and social life
* A clean, unpolluted and safe environment with equitable access to the
outdoors
* A place to meet friends and have places to play and recreate
* A place to have a fair chance at life regardless of their ethnic origin,
religion, income, gender or ability

WHO IS UNICEF USA?

For over eight decades, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has built an
unprecedented global support system for the world’s children. UNICEF
relentlessly works to deliver the essentials that give every child an equitable
chance in life: health care and immunizations, safe water and sanitation,
nutrition, education, emergency relief and more. UNICEF USA advances the global
mission of UNICEF in the U.S. to empower policies, practices, and programs at
the federal, state and local levels to improve the lives of children, starting
with our country’s most vulnerable and excluded communities.

WHO IS GROWING UP BOULDER?

Growing Up Boulder (GUB) is a nonprofit program based in Boulder, CO. Their
mission is to offer young people opportunities to participate, deliberate, and
influence local issues that affect their lives. Locally, GUB has engaged
directly with more than 7,500 young people, 1,500 university students, 60
partner organizations, and contributed youth voice to more than 100 projects.
GUB engages children of all backgrounds to include their input in local
government decisions, including on topics such as the design of affordable,
sustainable housing, resilience planning, transit systems, parks and open space,
and productive community dialogue.

CFCI IN THE UNITED STATES

CFCI’S GLOBAL IMPACT

WHAT IS THE BUDGET FOR THIS WORK?

The 2023 budget included a preliminary allocation of $50,000 to support initial
planning and engagement efforts to kick-off the project. Additional funds will
be allocated to cover consultant support throughout the remainder of the effort.

Once a Local Action Plan is developed, the city plans to leverage an exciting
source of funding --- approximately $2 million from the sale of the Broncos
stadium – to catalyze plan implementation and advance collective impact
projects. Partnerships, grant funding, and additional city allocations will also
be critical in sustaining momentum and forward progress.

HOW CAN I PARTICIPATE?

Making our community a place where children and youth thrive will take all of
us. Visit Be Heard Boulder at UNICEF Child Friendly Cities Initiative | Be Heard
Boulder to provide feedback on key questions throughout the process.

Subscribe to Growing Up Boulder’s newsletter and both organizations’ social
media channels.

STAY CONNECTED BY RECEIVING MILESTONE PROJECT REPORTS AND INVITATIONS FOR
UPCOMING ENGAGEMENT OPPORTUNITIES.

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