About Success By 6
The period of life from birth to age 6 offers a crucial window of opportunity to develop children's verbal and emotional skills so they enter school ready to learn. United Way of Long Island's Success By 6 initiative is working to help our young Long Islanders succeed. Success By 6 focuses on programs that help children, prenatal through age 6 years, achieve healthy, emotional, intellectual, physical and social development; and supports programs that encourage early childhood development, provide access to critical health and human services and increase services for parents and families.

2008-09 Grants
Parent-Child Home Program received a $25,000 Success By 6 grant to expand its mobile outreach to homeless families. This early literacy, parenting and school readiness program provides intensive home visiting to families challenged by poverty, low levels of education, language and literacy barriers, and other obstacles to educational success.

Middle Country Library received a $25,000 Success By 6 grant to sustain Mothers' Centers located in Family Place Libraries and to create Kids in Care programs in libraries throughout Long Island. Mothers' Centers are a peer leadership model of family support-parents gain confidence, knowledge and skills they need to better advocate for their child and family needs. Kids In Care is a program that helps child care providers to obtain the support and resources they need to provide safe, nurturing and learning based environments for the children in their care.

BornLearning
United Way of Long Island is now part of the BornLearning campaign, which focuses on giving parents, caregivers and communities the knowledge and tools needed to encourage quality early learning opportunities for young children.

Staff Contact
For more information, contact Kristine Donnelly-Schoen, senior vice president of community impact, at kdonnelly-schoen@unitedwayli.org or 631.940.3707.