Early Childhood Home Proven Results National Priorities Early Learning Matters     Helping Parents   Improving care   Strengthening Communities Born Learning

Strategic Plan Triangle. Click to enlarge.

United Way Success By 6’s national priorities reflect those at the local level, taking to national scale solutions that local SB6 initiatives and their community partners are creating. Parents are a child’s first teacher, so much of SB6’s work is focused on supporting parents. And SB6 strategies support young children both at home – with parents, grandparents or informal caregivers – and in out-of-home care:

• Helping Parents – Public awareness and engagement efforts help parents, grandparents and informal caregivers understand how to encourage early learning. The Born Learning public engagement campaign is SB6’s strategy to use public service advertising, research-based educational material and community mobilization efforts to help increase school readiness nationally and locally.
• Improving Care – The quality of care and early learning opportunities provided by professional caregivers clearly impacts a young child’s development. SB6’s strategy of supporting Quality Rating Systems (QRSs) – “star” rating systems similar to hotel and restaurant ratings – help parents choose quality settings and help providers offer them. And SB6’s support of Head Start and for the expansion of pre-K for all in states across the nation are focused on system-level change.
• Strengthening Communities – SB6’s strategy to support local United Way early learning initiatives – whether they’re called SB6 or not – is part of a national effort to make positive change for children, community by community.