SUCCESS BY 6

Mahoning Valley

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SUCCESS BY 6

United Way of Youngstown and the Mahoning Valley provides families with opportunities to ensure their children are receiving early development care in order to ready them for academic success.

Kindergarten Readiness Program

United Way of Youngstown and Mahoning Valley provides resources, including a readiness bag, for a four-week summer program for children entering Kindergarten. This program addresses literacy skills, but also helps the children adapt to the new environment of being in school.

  

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library

Children who live in homes with access to age-appropriate books will be more likely to read at their grade level reading skills on time. However, children living in poverty do not have easy access to books. Imagination Library helps change that by delivering a free, high-quality, age-appropriate book to the child’s home from birth to age 5. Under this initiative, we work closely with partner agencies to register children as early as birth.

Click here to learn more about Imagination Library and register your child.

 

SUCCESS BY 6 EXPERIENCES

  • "The greatest benefits of the Success By 6 program is that it gives students an opportunity to experience kindergarten before the school year actually starts. This 'jump start' helps students to work on their social skills and learn classroom routines. My favorite part of the program is watching the growth that happens in just a few short weeks."

    Mrs. Betsy A. Walsh, Kindergarten Teacher, Sebring Local Schools

  • "I think it's a perfect intro into kindergarten. I was really happy that he was in the school he'll be attending in the fall. I saw him grow a lot, especially his confidence when he was in Success By 6."

    Parent of Success By 6 Student at South Range Elementary School

  • "Success By 6 got her motivated to like school. She struggled at first. She didn't want to learn, but this got her into the routine and she started to get excited about school. It's an excellent program."

    Parent of Success By 6 student Struthers Elementary School

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