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Helping all children achieve their full potential for success in school
United Way's response:
Children aren't born ready for success in life. Readiness is a process that begins before birth and must be continually developed during the early years of a child's life.
United Way believes that when it comes to securing the future, children are the place to start. One way we do this is by investing in early childhood learning and parental involvement through the Project Ready for School initiative.
Did you know...?
- ...that investing in early childhood learning is good for everyone in the community? It leads to adults with greater success in life, fewer brushes with crime, higher levels of education and higher incomes.
Results you can see:
- Thanks to your donations, now more than 15,000 local children are receiving Project Ready for School resources. 14% of children receiving books have received a free learning checkup
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Children who love reading will become lifelong readers. 75% of Project Ready for School families surveyed say their children enjoy being read to “very much.”
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55% of Project Ready for School families surveyed read their child at least five times per week.
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Many children with insufficient learning skills also have developmental delays. 13% of children who received free learning checkups last year were referred for more evaluation
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We provided matching funds for PreK classrooms in Hamilton County.
- We gave thousands of PreK students in Hamilton and Dade Counties their first dictionary.
The lives we touch:
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Meet the Allens
Shawn and Rachel Allen read to their two young boys every night as part of their bedtime routine and have been doing so since the boys were just newborns. Jacob, age 4, and Cooper, age 2, have already begun to form a real love for reading and look forward to storytime each day. Both boys are enrolled in United Way’s Project Ready for School initiative and each receive a new book in the mail each month.
“The children get so excited every time a new book arrives in the mail addressed especially for them,” said Rachel Allen. “And the books are even better than some that I’ve purchased.”
The Allen’s children basically have a library of their own now thanks to the books they receive through the United Way program. She says that the boys have their favorites and Jacob even notices when she skips a page now.
“I tell every mother I know about the program,” said Rachel. “It offers the children so much and it is something that families can really enjoy together.”
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