Community Impact
Education
The United Way Worldwide highligts three points in students' lives that help predict success in school and later as adults. They are readiness to enter kindergarten, reading proficiency in fourth grade and on-time graduation from high school. 
- Readiness to succeed in school means that children enter kindergarten developmentally on track in the areas of literacy and in social, emotional and cognitive skills.
- Academic achievement means elementary-age students are prepared to succeed in later grades and to graduate from high school.
- Academic achievement is also relfected in on-time high school graduation rates
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Local Focus: Staying On Track
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Strategies
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· Ensure children experience literacy-rich environments.
· Provide alternative resources and strategies that enable students to maintain eligibility for graduation.
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Desired Impact
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· Children enter school having had numerous opportunities to read and to be read to, thereby equipping them to be ready to learn.
· Students are performing within or above grade level norms in key areas at grades 3, 6, and 10.
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Strategies Expanded:
- Ensure children experience literacy-rich environments.
Research proves that if a child is read to from birth until the time they enter school they are more likely to be ready to learn. The United Way is interested in partnering with organizations that are furthering the literacy movement for children.
- Provide alternative resources and strategies that enable students to maintain eligibility for graduation.
If a student is achieving grade-level norms at Grades 3, 6, and 10 they are more likely to graduate on time. For programs and organizations that are aiding students in this endeavor, the United Way would like to offer its support and partnership in order to continue increasing the overall graduation rate in Huntington County.
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