Community Read Aloud:  You can share a good book and the love of reading with young children during our one-day Community Read Aloud event in March each year when volunteers visit child care sites and elementary school classrooms.  For more information or to register for the next Community Read Aloud event, click here.

Volunteer Reader Network:  You can volunteer to promote reading to infants and young children, and help prepare a child for a successful future!  Success By 6  will match you with a specific child care center or family child care home.  Our Volunteer Readers pick up special book bags at their local library and bring them to the child care site to share with the children. For more information or to sign up to participate as a reader or a child care site, click here.

Quality Child Care and Early Literacy:  Success By 6 is a partner in our regional child care coalition Coastal ACCESS.  Over the past six years, Coastal ACCESS has received three federal grants totaling over $2.3 million to support local efforts to improve quality of care in our region. To learn more about our current grant and great results from our Early Learning Opportunities Act grants to this region, click here.

Born Learning Campaign:  Success By 6 is participating in this national campaign to provide parents and caregivers with simple actions steps to take to encourage early learning and to help prepare a child for school.

School Readiness:  Success By 6 has produced two studies to assess school readiness in the Mid Coast region. 

Support for Public Policy:  Success By 6 has supported legislative policies promoted by the statewide collaboration Start ME Right and the Fund for Healthy Maine.  Success By 6 believes it is important to work collaboratively with state government to promote the health, safety, and welfare of all children, and to help all children get the best possible start in life.