Program areas at Ready for School Ready for Life
The get Ready guilford initiative represents a collaborative effort between Ready for School, Ready for Life, and the duke endowment. This collaborative endeavor has made significant strides in expanding its programs, including the establishment of community navigation services within ob/gyn and pediatric practices throughout guilford county. The initiative proudly introduced its 'routes to Ready' brand for prenatal and postnatal navigation services. Additionally, the routes to Ready integrated data system has been developed, incorporating all relevant programs seamlessly. In 2022, Ready Ready extended its services to benefit 16,000 individuals. It has also cultivated partnerships with more than 100 organizations. Through its dedicated work in continuous quality improvement (cqi), our organization has effectively trained and provided ongoing support to 28 partner programs within guilford county.
Ready for School, Ready for Life operates the guilford parent leader network (gpln), which empowers parent leaders to serve as consultants, partners, and change agents. Gpln collaborates with staff to ensure family voices shape key decisions, with ten representatives on the Ready Ready board of directors and various committees. Parent liaisons and gpln members also engage on nonprofit boards and committees countywide, including, neighborhood/housing associations in under-resourced guilford county zip codes.
The basics guilford are five evidence-based parenting and caregiving practices that can be used in everyday Life to benefit young children of all backgrounds. Through the basics guilford program, Ready Ready conducted 22 community and partner training sessions, involving 771 individuals, and actively participated in 16 community events, dispensing 450 basics kits, furnishing 1,000 welcome baby bags to high point medical center, and distributing over 15,000 books. In addition, Ready for School, Ready for Life's early literacy program orchestrated literacy engagement events across guilford county, effectively broadening the reach of the basics guilford program while distributing books to children and partnering organizations and businesses.