The first five years of every person’s life are foundational. Studies show that a child’s experiences during those early years literally build the architecture of their brain. So we want to make the most of every child’s first five years of life from birth to Kindergarten. This Success By 6 (SX6) Strategic Plan is a community-wide roadmap that ensures all children in Williamson County enter Kindergarten happy, healthy, and prepared to succeed in school and beyond.
The long-term goal of SX6 is to ensure that children are ready to enter Kindergarten happy, healthy, and ready to succeed in school and beyond. What happens in these early years has a lasting impact from Kindergarten readiness to third-grade reading scores to high school graduation and beyond.
To achieve this goal for all Williamson County children, our coalition uses a four-pillar framework that outlines our current objectives related to each foundational pillar for children and their families, as well as for the program itself and associated public policy.
Workforce Solutions Rural Capital Area invests in early childhood programs because we want every family in the community to have access to safe, high quality and affordable opportunities for early learning and development for their children. We believe the family and the community will do better when children have high-quality, affordable, accessible child care options. Investing in early care and education creates opportunities for families to thrive by allowing parents to participate in better economic opportunities through training and career progression. We support the workforce of tomorrow by investing in early learning today.
The Williamson County Success By 6 Coalition was formed in early 2022. Over a six-month period, a collaborative group of Williamson County early childhood stakeholders defined a common set of hopes, goals, and strategies to transform the lives of young children and families. The group came together in four planning meetings between January and June 2022.
Stakeholders defined unique hopes and dreams for young children that support the current Success By 6 (SX6) vision: to ensure that young children are happy, healthy, and ready to succeed in school and in life.
These organizations share a mutual commitment to supporting Kindergarten readiness in Williamson County.
Acts of Love
Any Baby Can
Austin PBS
AVANCE- Austin
Bluebonnet Trails
Bookspring
Boys & Girls Club of East Williamson County
Boys & Girls Club of Georgetown
Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Texas
Bright Steps TX Daycare
Dell Children's Health Plan
Education Service Center Region 13
First Academy
Florence ISD
Foundation Communities
Full Bloom Business Coaching, LLC
Georgetown Health Foundation
Georgetown ISD
Georgetown Public Library
Global Kids Preschool
Greater Taylor Foundation
Hope Alliance
Jolly Giant Pediatrics
Leander ISD
Lone Star Circle of Care
Maximus
Mini Mischief Ranch
Mosaic Advocacy
Operation Liberty Hill
Opportunities for Williamson & Burnet Counties
Round Rock ISD
Round Rock Public Library
Small World Preschool
Southwestern University
STARRY/Carver Center for Families
Taylor ISD
The Georgetown Project
The Learning Tree Preschool
Thrall ISD
Tootris
United Way for Greater Austin
Williamson County and Cities Health District
Williamson County Children's Advocacy Center
Wonders and Worries
Workforce Solutions Rural Capital Area
These organizations meet quarterly to inform initiatives, support implementation, and provide ongoing guidance about the best ways of approaching the SX6 body of work in Williamson County.
Any Baby Can
Bluebonnet Trails
Florence ISD
Greater Taylor Foundation
Jolly Giant Pediatrics
Opportunities for Williamson & Burnet Counties
Southwestern University
Taylor ISD
The Georgetown Project
United Way for Greater Austin
Each individual and every organization here in Williamson County has the power to help shape the future – both for SX6’s work and for our youngest children. All you have to do is care, engage, and act.
Together, we can do so much to build up our community, its future success, and every one of the future Texans born daily.
Consider opportunities to seed innovation; build capacity to research, pilot and scale programs; improve systems to enhance coordination; and connect our Coalition to resources to make this happen. With your help we can reach more disadvantaged children in those foundational first 5 years.
Play every day. Research confirms that children learn better when adults talk, sing, and read with them daily. Support early learning through positive, engaging, fun interactions with the children in your life. Get parenting tools and techniques appropriate to your child’s age by signing up for Lantern – just text SMARTATX to 274448 to begin receiving parenting tips and local resources in English or Spanish.
Join the Wilco Success By 6 Coalition. Collaborate, innovate, and empower family voice. Aim for access, equity and quality. Together we can make meaningful, systemic, and sustainable impact for our children, our families, and our community we serve. To join, please email deneece.ferrales@uwatx.org.
High-quality early learning can transform the economic trajectory of our region. Investing in early education is an investment in the workforce of today AND the workforce of tomorrow. Join Early Matters Greater Austin - invest in early learning, influence public policy, create family friendly workplaces, and advance innovation. To join EMGA or learn more, please visit www.earlymattersgreateraustin.org.
Prioritize policies that address the needs of families and young children. Recognize that policies and funding for early childhood have the highest return on investment for communities than any other. Strong early childhood systems and infrastructure create better education, health, social and economic outcomes that increase revenue and reduce the need for costly social spending on services and supports later. Human capital is a critical part of our community’s infrastructure and that foundation is laid in the first 5 years of a child's life.
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