EDUCATION: Helping Children and Youth Achieve their potential
Goal #1: Mobilize community support to improve academic achievement in Faribault by offering engaging learning opportunities throughout the continuum of school readiness through high school graduation.
Early Childhood Learning Programs:
The United Way of Faribault at work Supporting Early Childhood Learning through:
Funding the Dolly Parton Imagination Library Program
• providing a book a month for children born at the Faribault Hospital between birth to age 5
Advocacy for MinneMinds
• Scholarships for Early Childhood Education with ParentsAware Certified Preschools
Supporting in-School and Out of School Programming, the United Way of Faribault is Funding:
Big Brothers/Big Sisters
• School Site Mentoring
Boy Scouts
• Prepared for Life Scouting
Faribault Community Education
• Youth Enrichment programming
Faribault Public Schools
• Families and Schools Together Program
• McKinley Partners with Families Program
Kiwanis
• Supply our children/School Supplies
Lutheran Social Services
• Foster Grandparents Program
Northfield Healthy Communities Initiative
• Growing Up Healthy
Goal #2: Increase English language learning opportunities for people of all ages.
The United Way of Faribault is Funding ESL Programs through:
Faribault Community Education
• Adult Enrichment Programming
