• All children will enter Kindergarten ready to succeed

Our Mission:

• Ensure that all children ages birth to six will be mentally, physically, socially and emotionally healthy for lifelong learning and growing.

Our Promises to Parents:

• Success By 6 will work to create quality early child care and an education system that is accessible and affordable for children in Mifflin and Juniata Counties.
• Success By 6 will communicate throughout Mifflin and Juniata Counties the importance of quality early childhood education to strengthen each child’s transition to school.
• Success By 6 will work to develop awareness and involvement of the area business community in supporting our children and families to succeed.

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SB6 History

Success By 6 was established locally in 2002, through the Community Engagement Grant as the Early Care and Education Action Team with Mifflin County Communities That Care. In 2005 the action team merged with the United Way of Mifflin-Juniata to form the early childhood initiative Success By 6.

The goals of the Community Engagement grants are:

• To develop and implement a community outreach plan to educate and foster relationships with parents, government, businesses, schools, and the early learning community about issues in early learning such as Pennsylvania's Promise for Children, Pennsylvania Pre-K Counts, Keystone STARS and Child Care Works.
• To be the county point of contact for Pennsylvania's Promise for Children materials.
• To facilitate linkages between school districts, early learning practitioners, and other community stakeholders for the purpose of developing a community action plan to support successful kindergarten transitions.
• To appropriately leverage resources and support in the community.
  Success By 6 has been funded since 2002 by the Community Engagement Grant under the Office of Child Development and Early Learning at the Department of Public Welfare and Department of Education.

Success By 6, the early childhood initiative under the United Way of Mifflin-Juniata is a coalition of the public working together to ensure that the children living in Mifflin and Juniata county’s enter school healthy, well-cared for and ready to succeed in school and in life. It operates on these premises:

• When families and caregivers provide quality early childhood development, children enter school ready to succeed.
• When children start school ready to succeed, they are more likely to read at grade level by 3rd grade.
• When children read at grade level by 3rd grade, they are more likely to graduate from high school.
• When children graduate from high school, they are more likely to go on to higher education and/or enter the job market as tax paying citizens.
• Successful citizens contribute to the economic and social vibrancy of our community.