Testimonials
Your contribution helps all kinds of individuals in our community, from all walks of life and all socioeconomic backgrounds.
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- Quality Child Care Begins in the Home
- Dreams Come True in Fayetteville
- Driven to Care
- Friendship Unites One Woman With Her Community
- In Time of Need
- Homeless To Homeowner
- A Little Help Goes a Long Way
- Future Doctors Get Start in Lakeview
- Legal Help From an Old Neighbor in a New City
- Room For Reading
- Family Finds Relief After "Unexpected" Happens
- Self-sufficiency Matters
- « Did You Know?
Nurturing Children and Youth
Why it matters:
Children are better able to achieve success in both the classroom and in life when they enter kindergarten ready to learn, spend quality-learning time with their parents, attend structured after-school programs and have positive goals for their future.
Did you know?
- Ninety percent of brain development occurs by the time a child is 3 years old."
- Children in quality child care programs have 26 percent greater HS graduation rates, are held back 35 percent less often and are 60 percent less likely to have a juvenile arrest."
- One-half of all juvenile crime occurs between the hours of 1 p.m. and 4 p.m., the hours where kids are most likely to be own their own and not under adult supervision
- Students who spend 1-4 hours per week in supervised extracurricular activities are 49 percent less likely to use drugs and 37 percent less likely to become teen parents.
