Mission:
WSPN works together with the West Side children, families, and individuals to ensure success from cradle to career and beyond.
Vision:
By 2025, Buffalo’s West Side will be a vibrant, diverse, safe, healthy, and inclusive neighborhood where every family is strong, every child is healthy, and every youth succeeds in school and achieves life-long success. To this end, we envision a cradle-through-college-to-career network composed of residents, community partners, and schools that work together to:
Follow a community action plan composed of:
A common agenda
A shared measurement system
A continuum of mutually reinforcing activities
Create and maintain a continuous communication system accessible to all stakeholders
Be respectful of neighborhood needs, cultural diversity, and stakeholder roles
Come together and respectfully listen to children, families, and each other to identify strengths and assets upon which effective solutions can continue to be built and unmet needs of the community are addressed
Please visit the WSPN external website here.
Food Security
Convenes a meeting every two weeks on Mondays from 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. on June 14, June 28, July 12, July 26, August 9, August 23, September 6, September 20, October 4, October 18, November 1, November 15, November 29, December 13, and December 27. The zoom link is here.
Steering Committee Members:
SUNY Buffalo State College
D’Youville College
RICHS
CITIZENS BANK
Westminster Economic Development Initiative (WEDI)
COUNTY OF ERIE – Department of Social Services
Neighborhood Works
Say Yes Buffalo
West Buffalo Charter
Read to Succeed Buffalo
The Belle Center
West Side Community Services
Every Person Influences A Child (EPIC)
Associate Members:
Trocaire College
Population Health Collaborative of WNY
Junior Achievement
Literacy Buffalo
GO Bike
Veterans One Stop
Girls on the Run
Buffalo City Swim Racers
Food Gnomes
Rust Belt Harvest
Jericho Road
Strong Academy
Hearts for the Homeless
Buffalo Science Museum
Karen Society of Buffalo
Asamblea de Iglesias Cristianas 213 Ontario St.
Friends of the Night People
Buffalo Philharmonic
Stitch Buffalo
Nusantara Arts
West Side Tax Payers Association
Buffalo Prenatal- Perinatal
