Ensuring all children enter kindergarten ready to thrive

Community-Based Youth Supports

Transforming neighborhoods from the inside out

Racism and discrimination have no place in our society. We envision Greater Louisville as a place where everyone has the opportunity to thrive, and we can only achieve this vision if we all, together, work towards equity and denounce racism and violence.

Policy makers are critical partners in promoting health, education, workforce development, and human services, so we actively engage, help educate, and advocate for good policy.

We are the community-wide convener in transforming Early Care and Education, leading the Ready for K Alliance, a coalition of over 100 partners working to align strategies and improve early educational attainment.

The Developmental Screening Hub is a free program for children 2 months to 5 ½ years of age. The Hub provides parents and caregivers with the opportunity to complete a developmental screening called the Ages & Stages Questionnaire®.

The new Louisville Growing Readers program provides families 100 printed picture books plus parent information in weekly mailings directly to homes.

The Out of School Time Program network connects youth to programs, connects programs to one another, identifies gaps in service, works to build system-wide quality through community trainings, provides professional opportunities for youth workers, and measures the program quality.

Black L.O.V.E. Philanthropic Partnership

With On My Way Pre-K, 4-year olds from low income families in Southern Indiana can have access to a high-quality pre-k program for FREE the year before they begin kindergarten.

Little Libraries give neighbors and businesses an opportunity to host libraries in their front yards so that families that might not have easy access to the public library, or have books in their home, can get free books in their own neighborhood.

Born Learning Parent Academies help provide valuable resources for families and caregivers that help to educate and promote early childhood development in Shelby County, KY.

Neighborhood advocates in targeted areas lead meetings of parents in the ASQ program to talk about being good moms, dads and caregivers as well as challenges and opportunities that come along.