Northside Achievement Zone

Northside Achievement Zone (NAZ):

The Village in Action!

NAZ Mission

The Northside Achievement Zone is a collaboration made up of over 60 organizations and schools whose mission is to build a culture of achievement in a geographic area in North Minneapolis to ensure all youth graduate from high school college-ready.

Three Key Strategies

Strategy 1: Family Engagement and Opportunity Alignment

Ensuring that key NAZ strategies across schools and organizations touch families most in need and that families create a culture of achievement in the home.

Three Key Strategies

Strategy 2: Education Pipeline

Effective and coordinated schools, services, and strategies leading children in North Minneapolis to college starting and birth.

Three Key Strategies

Strategy 3: Whole Family Support

Supporting family success so NAZ children can show up ready to learn.

An Integrated Effort

Collaborative Process and Shared Data System Leads to An Integrated Effort

o Six NAZ Action Teams – Early Childhood, Out-of-School Time, Mentoring, Housing, Career and Financial Pathways, and Behavioral Health

o NAZ Connect - Achievement Planning and Shared Data system

Scale Up Over Time

140 NAZ-enrolled families with over 300 children now will lead to over 1200 families with 3000 children over and a fully integrated NAZ system and culture.