Success By 6 has several special initiatives in the Mid Coast region.

1. 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.

2. 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.

How Do You Get Started?
Just give us a call at 442-7440 or e-mail us at success@uwmcm.org to receive our application or to get more information.

Are You A Child Care Provider?
If you want a volunteer to visit the children in your child care home or center, please contact us at the number or e-mail above to sign up or to get more information.

3. Quality Child Care and Early Literacy
ur region's child care coalition Coastal ACCESS (Success By 6 at United Way of Mid Coast Maine is a Coastal ACCESS member) just released our new report Six Years of Improvements in Quality Early Care and Education in Mid Coast Maine. This report highlights the exciting changes accomplished in our region over the past six years, thanks to three Early Learning Opportunity Act grants from the Child Care Bureau, U. S. Department of Health and Human Services, totaling over $2.3 million.

Download the Executive Summary or the Full Report.

This report provides the key strategies used in each of the three grants, local results, lasting changes both locally and beyond our region, and profiles of six early childhood programs that took advantage of the many opportunities available due to these grants.

Coastal ACCESS partners are proud that we are one of only four local councils throughout the United States to receive three federal Early Learning Opportunities Act grants!

4. 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.

You can learn more about simple activities to do during your daily life with your young child and other wonderful tips for parents by visiting the national campaign website at Born Learning.

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

6. 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.