Stanislaus County Stanislaus County Priorities and Progress ABOUT STANISLAUS COUNTY KEY PARTNERS backbone organizations increase access to books Stanislaus Community Foundation City of Patterson Community Services Agency Stanislaus County Office of Education E & J Gallo Winery Increase children’s access to books in early years by expanding Imagination Library, Stanislaus County Children & Families Commission a free book distribution program for families, to five pilot school zip codes. Stanislaus County Library pilot school partners Stanislaus READS! is a multi-agency, multi-year initiative to uncover many winning solutions to help children read — and succeed — by third grade. Our invest in summer learning Develop best practices for integrating literacy curriculum into existing summer enrichment coalition of public, private, philanthropic, and faith- programs; provide students with scholarships for community-based summer camps; and create based partners imagine a community where every more opportunities for summer learning by opening pilot school libraries and computer labs in the child shows up on the first day of kindergarten ready to learn, has quality children’s books in the home, is summer. healthy and in school daily, and participates in literacy-rich summer programs. If we work together, Stanislaus County can be a place where every child is equipped to succeed, not just in school, but in life. City of Modesto Implement a universal kindergarten assessment to determine school readiness baseline data and Friends of the Library, Modesto Branch Girls Scouts Heart of Central California Modesto Bee Modesto City Schools District— Burbank Elementary School Modesto Junior College Stanislaus Union School District— Josephine Chrysler Elementary School Morgan Stanley Sylvan Unified School District— Sylvan Elementary School Modesto Rotary Parent Institute for Quality Education Sierra Vista Child & Family Services Waterford Unified School District— Stanislaus County Behavioral Richard M. Moon Elementary Health & Recovery Services School Stanislaus County Health Services Patterson Joint Unified School Agency District—Las Palmas Elementary Stanislaus County Housing School Authority strategic partners collect better data El Concilio Stanislaus County Police Activities League (PAL) Boys and Girls Club of Stanislaus County Stanislaus County Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) California State University, Stanislaus United Samaritans Foundation Center for Human Services United Way of Stanislaus County to measure progress over time; identify chronically absent children and uncover why they are local data missing school; and utilize school reading assessments to measure student achievement loss over the summer. • 27.2% of children live in poverty • 55.7% of child population is Latino Building Financial Support build community awareness Design a county-wide marketing campaign around school readiness, chronic absence, and • 30% of children live in households in which the primary language spoken is Spanish summer learning. Engage parents and broader community on the importance of early literacy and attendance in primary school years. Centralize information about summer programs at the • 38% of 3- and 4-year-olds attend preschool • 61% of third grade students are not reading at grade level community level to improve family access to enrichment opportunities. The Campaign for GRADE-LEVEL READING Stanislaus Community Foundation has invested time and financial resources to the early planning phase of the Stanislaus READS initiative. Stanislaus Community Foundation has committed all 2015 discretionary grant-making dollars to support the implementation of Stanislaus READS! and the Foundation will continue to make investments over the next three years and actively pursue additional financial support for the initiative. Early funding partners include the Modesto Rotary Club, Morgan Stanley, Stanislaus County Office of Education and in-kind support from original Steering Committee agencies. 0
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