What is Success By 6®

Success By 6® is a province-wide early childhood development initiative working to support the healthy development of children from conception to age 6. (See the provincial Success By 6® website.)  Success By 6 ® is prevention-focused, research-informed and community-based. Its vision is a community where all children are valued, respected, nurtured, loved, and given the opportunity to develop to their full potential as creative, caring, competent, and responsible adults.  

In the South Okanagan-Similkameen, Success By 6® is a member of the Communities for Kids (CFK) early childhood development (ECD) coalition. Success By 6® works in partnership with CFK and Understanding the Early Years to achieve the coalition’s vision, mission and goals.  

What does Success By 6® do?

Success By 6® builds and enhances community by engaging all citizens in support of ECD, and funding programs that strengthen services for young children and their families. This means bringing together all community stakeholders to identify a community’s ECD needs, and then develop and implement a plan to meet those needs. 

Success By 6® funded projects in the South Okanagan-Similkameen

In 2006, Success By 6® provided $20,000.00 to the Woodlie Park rehabilitation project in Hedley (read more on the Hedley page). 

In 2007, the CFK Keremeos Table received $18,850 for a playground project in Pine Park, and the CFK Princeton Table was awarded $20,000 to support their new Family Resource Center.

The Oliver CFK Table was awarded $18,700 for a transportation project, and also $1,200 to purchase mats for the community's Parent and Tot program.

The Okanagan Falls CFK Table was awarded $1,037 to purchase equipment for their community's Tumble Bumble program.

Watch this website for more news reports of a Success By 6® funded project in your community!

Aboriginal Engagement

Success By 6® is in the process of establishing connections with the region’s Aboriginal communities. Our goal is to establish a working relationship with Aboriginal community members to discuss the importance of ECD, and how Success By 6® can work with the Aboriginal communities to support their ECD needs. Consultation and relationship building are ongoing, and will culminate in a “round table” discussion among all Aboriginal stakeholders in May or June of this year. The goal of that discussion will be to identify a key objective that Success By 6® and the Aboriginal peoples of the region can work together to achieve.  If you would like more information on this exciting project please contact the Success By 6® Project Coordinator, Blair Lischeron.

Success By 6 ® Fundraising

One way that Success By 6® helps communities support their ECD needs is by raising funds in communities to meet those needs. When community members, businesses and other organizations donate to Success By 6® to support their community’s ECD needs, those funds stay in that community.

You can make a donation to support children in your community by going to the  provincial Success By 6® website. See the Donations page on this website for more information.

Success By 6® Partners

The Success By 6® South Okanagan-Similkameen Partners are:

• Interior Savings Credit Union,
• Summerland and District Credit Union,
• United Way of the Central and South Okanagan-Similkameen,
• Valley First Credit Union, and
• Government of B.C., Ministry of Children and Family Development

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