It's time to prepare for Pennsylvania 's Promise for Children Month

Great new ways to celebrate!

• Download the new toolkit -- Word |  PDF
• What's new?

Here's the deal: All children need quality early learning experiences to succeed in kindergarten and beyond, but not all children get it.

Pennsylvania's Promise for Children Month is an opportunity to raise awareness about the importance of quality early learning and

• Give families information they need to help their young children grow at home and to choose quality early learning programs and services that best meet their needs
• Convince school and community leaders and elected officials to make access to quality early learning opportunities a priority for Pennsylvania

There are dozens of ways that you can celebrate Pennsylvania's Promise for Children Month suggested in this toolkit. Even if you do ONE THING during PA's Promise Month, you make a difference. Because if every person did ONE THING, imagine what kind of an impact we could make together.

What's New?

  There is so much information we can share about quality early learning and helping young children grow that we have developed four weekly themes to keep the fun going all month long! Each weekly theme provides key facts that are important to children's growth, with tips for families and communities to help young children reach their promise. They are based on the four sections of the Early Learning GPS (Guiding Parents Smoothly). We ask that you do not begin using these tools until October, so we can make a big splash!

• Download the Promoting Pennsylvania's Promise for Children Toolkit for dozens of ways to celebrate. Word | PDF

Learn and Spread the Word!

• Get Social!
• Weekly themes for outreach - includes infographics and sample posts, letters, newsletter blurbs:
• Week 1 - How your child's brain develops is important to his/her learning for life
• Week 2 - Your child is unique, developing at his/her own pace, but will follow the same path as all children
• Week 3 - Your relationship with your child is the foundation he/she needs to grow and thrive
• Week 4 - How your young child spends time out of your care affects his/her learning and future success in kindergarten!

Get Involved and Celebrate

• Collect Declarations - let's reach 20,000 declarations by end of the month!
• Classroom and community projects

Tell Your Story - Submit your child's "I have the promise to be" story to be recognized during PA's Promise Month and all year long!  

 .... more to come!