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

United Way and the Junior League of Birmingham are partners in 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

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:

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

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 - click here for more info

Preschool Math Initiative - click here for more info

Success by 6 Update - click here for more info

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.

This initiative is made possible by a grant from the Malone Family Foundation.