Town Hall meeting explores community needs
Parent leaders held a Town Hall meeting on April 24 to ask families how our community could offer more support.
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Partner Spotlight: Kellen Foundation
The mission of the Kellin Foundation is to strengthen resilience for children, families, adults, and communities through trauma-informed behavioral health services focused on prevention, treatment, and healing.
Staff profile: Megan LeFaivre
By Stephanie Skordas, Director of Marketing and Communications When the idea that became Ready for School, Ready for Life (Ready Ready) was just starting to spark in Guilford County, Literacy Coordinator Megan LeFaivre was there. “I served as a volunteer on the very first steering committee, through the Early Literacy Design Team, and the 100-day […]
11 Parent Leaders graduate from COFI Phase 2 training
Eleven parent leaders from the Guilford Parent Leader Network have graduated from Community Organizing and Family Issues (COFI) Phase 2 training.
Partner Spotlight: YWCA High Point
Executive Director Heidi Majors said Ready for School, Ready for Life (Ready Ready) has supported many of the YWCA’s adolescent parents during the pandemic.
NC workforce registry system
NC workforce registry system survey North Carolina (NC) is one of only nine states that currently does not have an EC/SA workforce registry system. Planning for this registry is very important as it will position the State to bring individual and aggregated real-time data about early childhood and school age practitioners’ education, credentials, work locations […]
Partner Spotlight: BackPack Beginnings
By Stephanie Skordas, Director of Marketing & Communications A news story shown on Washington D.C. television about a teacher in Texas who was slipping food into children’s backpacks stuck with Parker White as she moved back to Greensboro and started raising her family. “I couldn’t get it out of my head,” White, the executive director […]
Early literacy efforts recognized with grant
We are excited to share that a grant from the Duke Energy Foundation has recognized how Ready Ready encourages literacy for Guilford County’s youngest children.
Child Development Quiz
Answers to Child Development Quiz: Milestone Correct Age Begins smiling at people 2 months Shows curiosity about things and tries to get things that are out of reach 6 months Hands you a book when he/she wants to hear a story […]