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Change the First 5 Years and You Change Everything - Video
Success By 6 Community Partners
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United Way of America Success By 6 Initiatives
is the nation’s largest early childhood initiative enabling more than 350 communities across the country to implement out-come-focused strategies to positively affect early childhood development. Each Success By 6 develops their program based on critical issues for their community's 0 - 6 population.
Imagination Library
Imagination Library is an early literacy initiative to put books in the hands of young children, helping prepare them for kindergarten.
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What Can We Expect
- Be 46 percent more likely to graduate from high school
- Receive $4.17 of help for every $1 spent on preschool
- Earn 14 percent more than they would if they had not been in the program
What can we expect from participants in the Success By 6 program? Each child enrolled in a two-year quality early learning education initiative can expect to:
Help Me Grow is...
Success By 6, in partnership with the Alabama Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, announces the launch of Help Me Grow – Central Alabama. Help Me Grow, an affiliate of the National Help Me Grow Network, focuses on increasing the number of children receiving standardized comprehensive developmental screenings and linking families to resources with developmental needs. The program engages pediatricians and families and has 5 components-
- Physician Outreach
- A Centralized Call Center
- Community Networking
- Data Collection
- Developmental Surveillance
United Way’s 2-1-1 line is the portal to Help Me Grow - Central Alabama’s Child Development Line at Success By 6 to provide linkage for families, child care and health care providers to community resources for children at risk of developmental delays.
United Way’s 2-1-1 line is the portal to Help Me Grow- Central Alabama’s Child Development Line at Success By 6 to provide linkage for families, child care and health care providers to community resources for children at risk of developmental delays. With funding from the Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham, Help Me Grow-Central Alabama partners with pediatricians and serves families in Blount, Jefferson, Shelby, St. Clair and Walker Counties. For information call 205 458-2070.
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Help Me Grow Central Alabama Launch : click here
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Success By 6 Update
Our community is becoming more and more focused on the importance of school readiness and the impact that has on everyone’s future. Thank you to all United Way Success By 6 supporters who are committed to providing pre-schoolers and educators in Central Alabama the skills needed for children to enter kindergarten ready to learn and thrive. Thank you for inspiring hope and creating opportunities for our children to have a better tomorrow. Success By 6 Update Story
Blueprint for School Readiness -
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Preschool Math Initiative -
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Success by 6 Update -
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Jefferson County's Blueprint for School Readiness
United Way of Central Alabama's Success By 6 school readiness initiative coordinates the local implementation for the "Jefferson County Blueprint for School Readiness." The Jefferson County Blueprint for School Readiness is a community based initiative to bring partners together to address school readiness for all children in Jefferson County. The Blueprint will be reconvening existing groups of community partners this spring to continue the work to improve the systems serving our young children and their families. This work will result in an increased number of Jefferson County's four year olds who arrive at school ready to learn and succeed. This effort is enabled by a grant awarded by the Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham. For more information contact Brooke Burgess at 205-458-2178.
Preschool Math Initiative Adds Up to Success!
The SB6 team has been busy designing a preschool math initiative to be launched in selected sites this fall. It is not just ABCs anymore for kids at SB6. To improve math skills of our preschoolers SB6 will:- Purchase and train each selected SB6 site in Every Day Math curriculum
- Create math centers in all sites
- Teach age appropriate math for SB6 preschoolers in each site
- Create cost effective and reproducible math games and activities
- Train all SB6 teachers on Pre K math skills, development, and activities to assure the best outcomes for each child.
- Share the Pre K Math initiative model and tools with early care and education partners
- Disseminate best practices for math education for four year olds in child care classrooms.