Success By 6 programs provide services that address the developmental, educational, recreational, emotional, crisis, safety, social and child care needs of children (from birth to age six) and their families and other persons who may perform the role of parenting. Click on 2009 United Way brochure for a complete list of 2009-10 Partner Provider organizations with descriptions of Success By 6 funded programs.
Programs are to address one or more of the following desired participant outcomes:
Children enter school prepared to succeed.
Young children (birth to 6 years) grow up healthy.
- Children are born healthy
- Children receive high quality health and dental care
- Children develop to their maximum capacity
- Children receive good nutrition
- Children obtain early interventions for risky conditions
- Children live in physically safe environments
Children grow up in safe, nurturing and stimulating environments.
- Children experience positive parenting and care-giving in the home.
- Children are nurtured in child care and school settings.
- Children and their families are connected to responsive networks and support services.
- Children gain knowledge and skills from formal and informal learning resources.
Success By 6 Community Status Indicators include:
- Low birth weight babies; rate of infant mortality
- Births to teen mothers
- Compliance with early childhood immunizations
- Incidence of child abuse/neglect
- Children in emergency shelter, transitional housing or foster care
- Children demonstrating school readiness: physical and motor development; social and emotional development; language development; cognitive development; disposition to learn
- Young children in poverty
See 2008 Community Indicators Report for summary of issues and trends related to the community status indicators.
Success By 6 Priority Committee Members
Deborah Pierre-Louis, (Committee Chair), Wisconsin Department of Corrections
Angel Carlson, Johnson Bank
Dorothy Sack, Community Volunteer
Kathy Dunkerson, Lighted Schoolhouse - Racine Unified School District
Jennifer Eastman, Merchants Moving & Storage
Teri Gamble, Johnson Bankâ¨
Susan Goelz, Community Volunteer
Reva Holmes, Community Volunteer
Janis Lemke, Racine Unified School District
Jamie Martin, Case New Holland
Linda Michel, Community Volunteer
Chad Rottier, SC Johnson
Nancy Shannon, Community Volunteer
