The wonderful thing about any person’s success is when she continues to create more positive outcomes for others. What we love about Sixpence success stories is how each of these participants has lived up to her fullest potential. We also love the…
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Sixpence Strikes Again: Families Attend Strolling Thunder, Teen Parents Excel, and Children Thrive
Sixpence in Macy, Nebraska, and their community are a perfect example of a group of resilient people who pull together through the storm. The Shinga Zhinga Child Development Center serves the community. The Center is located on the UmonHon reservation and primarily serves teenage parents, community members, and high school staff members. Thanks to Sixpence, the program director Lacey Sateren, said she has witnessed remarkable developments throughout the past year, even during the height of the pandemic. Read some incredible achievements thanks to resilient families, Umonhon Nation Public Schools and Sixpence!
Ripple Effect: Sixpence, Alliance Families, and Public Schools Create Positive Change
Alliance, Nebraska’s Sixpence is glad to share a story of a young family’s success. The family started off dealing with some struggles. The father had grappled with a drug addiction, had been incarcerated, and had a child from a previous marriage with whom he’d not had a relationship during her early years. How did his strength, resiliency, resolve, and a little help from Sixpence support him in his positive transformation? Read more.
Graduation: A Young Parent Shares How Her Efforts and Sixpence Helped Her Enter the Next Phase
From the recipient of Sixpence home visits to becoming a young mom, then a home visitor, read Yesenia’s uplifting story.
A Young Mother, Fremont Public Schools, and Sixpence Make the Impossible POSSIBLE
Four years ago, a frightened, pregnant 16-year-old walked through Fremont Sixpence’s doors. Lauren said that in addition to being scared, the young woman was disconnected from her relatives.
Read about how this young mother’s resolve and Fremont Sixpence helped her to push through difficulties and into her own triumphant light.
Tagged with: early childhood, early childhood development, early years, home visitation, home visiting, sixpence, sixpence homebase
Posted in Early Childhood, Middle Childhood
Posted in Early Childhood, Middle Childhood
Sixpence Home Visits: A Columbus, Nebraska Family Shares Their Takeaways
Most of us have probably sung the Song of Sixpence. It’s a strange little nursery rhyme, one with strikingly original opening lyrics we loved as children. Blackbirds fly out of a pie that is set before the king.
For a child to be heard and create his or her own melody in the world, we need to begin to support them early in life. From the ages of birth through three, a child’s brain is a fertile ground that establishes neural connections at a dizzying rate. Therefore, parents and caregivers can help set their children’s foundation up for the formation of these valuable connections. There are a few ways that Sixpence can help.
Read more to learn about Jamie Leach’s Sixpence takeaways.
Tagged with: columbus, early childhood, early childhood development, early childhood education, early years, home visitation, home visiting, sixpence, sixpence homebase
Posted in Early Childhood
Posted in Early Childhood
Something Old, Something New, and a Sixpence for Her Shoe: Sixpence Comes to Families’ Homes
Established in 2006, the Sixpence Early Learning Fund supports infants and toddlers to ensure that they’re developmentally ready for kindergarten. Sixpence administers three types of grants: Center-based care, family engagement home-based services, and a combination of family engagement and center-based care. Today, Rebecca and Troy Swindell share their Sixpence home visitation takeaways!
Shooting for Success: Sixpence and Broken Bow Hit the Bull’s Eye
Sixpence Early Learning Fund, one of our Early Childhood initiatives, is dedicated to helping our state’s most vulnerable infants and toddlers during these precious early years. Today, a Broken Bow family shared their takeaways from going more than eight years strong with Sixpence home visits!
Good Things Come in 5s: The Kellers Share Their Top Sixpence Home-Based Takeaways
There’s POWER in numbers, particularly when children are the ages of birth through 3. Today, we talked to the Kellers to hear all about how Sixpence Home Base and their home visitor have helped the family thrive during these important years and beyond!
Tagged with: early childhood, early childhood development, early childhood education, early years, home visitation, home visiting, sixpence
Posted in Early Childhood, News and Events
Posted in Early Childhood, News and Events
Coming into Full Bloom: Cherry Park Creative Corner LLC’s Director, Shannon Crosby, Shares Sixpence CCP Takeaways
Although life and the weather are ever-changing, quality childcare and education is a constant need. To do this, we need Early Childhood initiatives like Sixpence Child Care Partnerships (Sixpence CCP). Early care and education professionals have a short but crucial time to help young lives bloom. We and Sixpence CCP can help. Read more about Shannon Crosby, the director of Cherry Park Creative Corner, LL, and her Sixpence Child Care Partnership.
Growing the Good Life 