About ARPNI

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  • Led by Self Enhancement, Inc. and funded by a $28 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education.

    The Albina Rockwood Promise Neighborhood is a partnership of community based organizations, residents, local schools, colleges, and local and federal government agencies.

  • We will deliver resources, serve communities, and empower families.

    Working with schools, families, and partner community organizations, the Albina-Rockwood Promise Neighborhood provides support, guidance, and opportunities to achieve personal and academic success. Albina-Rockwood Promise Neighborhood brings hope to individual young people and enhances the quality of community life.

  • The Albina Rockwood Promise Neighborhood (ARPNI) grant began in January 2019 with the goal that every child excels and every family thrives.

    ARPNI brings together six community based organizations; IRCO, Latino Network, NAYA, MFS, United Way and SEI as the lead agency. Along with Portland Public School District and Reynolds School District, in the two diverse neighborhoods Albina and Rockwood. These neighborhoods are 22 miles apart and were chosen due to the rapidly changing demographics as a result of gentrification.

  • ARPNI will drive equity through integrated culturally specific/responsive continuum of cradle-to-career services that empower students and families of color to achieve academic and economic success.

    Underlying ARPNI is the powerful concept of cultural specificity and responsiveness in order to expand the SEI Model to other underserved populations. These culturally specific and responsive services provide holistic wraparound family supports to communities of color and families living in poverty.

  • The program features promising practice curricula, as well as a strong focus on building stronger cultural ethnic identity.

    This is tied to evidence supporting stronger academic success, increased school belongingness, and higher self-esteem, among other impactful outcomes aligned with the schools improvement plans and districts strategic goals.

  • Driving equity through integrated evidence-based, practice-based culturally specific and responsive continuum of cradle to career programs that empower traditionally underserved students and families of color to achieve academic and economic success.