Success By Six

"All Children will be nurtured, safe and prepared to learn."

Success By 6 is an early childhood initiative led by United Way of Thurston County to ensure that children have the opportunities they need to succeed in school and life. The initiative supports parent and caregiver education through:

The Born Learning Campaign, providing materials to help turn everyday moments into learning opportunities. Go to SouthSoundBornLearing.org.
A Kindergarten Readiness Calendar designed for families with 4-year-olds filled with 12 months of get-ready- for-kindergarten activities. To download the calendar (pdf), click here. Note: This is a large file and may take a few minutes to download.

Success By Six also promotes community awareness and support of early learning to the business community.

To learn more, go to:

Economic Vitality Brochure (pdf)
Report on Opinion Research (pdf)

For more information, contact Julee Durham at 360.943.2773 x 14 jdurham@unitedway-thurston .org.

Thurston Early Childhood Coalition

In 2003, United Way's Success By 6 committee launched The Thurston Early Childhood Coalition. It's purpose is to work collectively to create and promote a comprehensive system of early child care and education that is accessible, affordable and effective in helping young children develop the social, emotional, physical and cognitive skills needed to succeed in school and life. Specific objectives are:

To gain a comprehensive picture of all existing services and programs including who is served, cost of service, number served, and funding sources.
To make this information easily accessible to parents and other caregivers.
To identify gaps in our early childhood service system.
To develop public and private resources that will enable the coalition to collaboratively implement and sustain essential services.
To work collaboratively with advocates throughout the state to educate policymakers about the human value and cost-effectiveness of designating community-based funding to support services devoted to early care and education.

In 2006 the Coalition completed a year-long, community-based strategic plan, available in a one-page overview or a five-page, detailed format.

Click here to view the Early Learning Strategic Plan Overview. (one-page)
Click here to view the Early Learning Strategic Plan Summary. (five-page, detailed)