Success By 6®

MISSION: Ensuring our children are safe, healthy, cherished and enter school ready to learn.

Success By 6® is not an agency or a program, but a community-wide children's initiative that brings together resources from a partnership of private businesses, government, faith communities, education, and health and human service organizations. Click here for our Success By 6® partner agencies and programs.

In Lane County, the Success By 6® initiative is focused on significantly reducing child abuse and neglect through prevention efforts as a first step towards ensuring that all our children enter school ready to learn.

Parents are the key. And parents are most successful in a supportive community. Through partnerships with many of Lane County's successful and ground-breaking human service agencies, as well as business, faith, medical, school and volunteer communities, we have developed the following strategies. Research shows that a combination of strategies works.

Parent Education
Parenting groups are offered in most parts of Lane County and provide a place for parents to meet and support one another.  Groups are frequently facilitated by a professionally trained Parent Educator. For information about parent education opportunities in your area, call the Parent HelpLine (information below).

Parent HelpLine
The Parent HelpLine is a place to call for all your early childhood connections!

• Talk about parenting, child development and behavior, family stress and more
• Find out how to join a playgroup or parenting group
• Be directly transferred to services in your community
• Schedule a time to talk about the specific needs of your family; appointments  may be at your home, a park or other public setting

The Parent HelpLine is a free and confidential telephone resource in Lane County for parents and caregivers of young children (birth to six).

Call 541-485-5211 or 888-485-5211 in Western Lane County.  

The Parent HelpLine is staffed by trained Parent Educators, Sunday through Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

To order English and Spanish promotional materials such as posters, fliers and magnets, call 484-5316 or email birthtothree@birthto3.org.

Cherish Every Child Public Awareness Campaign
Campaign objectives include:

1. Set the foundation that children are important
2. Build awareness around early childhood development
3. Provide the target audience(s) with concrete, actionable information
4. Encourage the community to be more aware of the children and parents around them and empower them to get more involved

Available materials include posters as well as television and print ads.

Children Do Come with Directions
Children Do Come with Directions Parent Guides provide information about children's health, development, and safety and information setting limits and adjusting to change as your child grows.  It also provides information on community resources here in Lane County aimed at supporting the needs of families with children. To order the free Parent Guides call 541-741-6000 or email info@unitedwaylane.org.

2007 Success By 6® Report Card
This biannual study reports on the status of Lane County children as well as current Success By 6® priorities and strategies. For statistical information click here.

Early Childhood Development Speaker's Bureau
Trained volunteers present information on early brain development and early childhood investment.  The presentation based on the Oregon Department of Children and Families brain development curriculum and economic research done by the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank.   Volunteers are always available to present to your organization or business. Call 541-741-6000 or email info@unitedwaylane.org to learn more about the training or to request a presentation.

To Report Child Abuse
If you suspect a child is being abused or in danger of being abused, you should contact local law enforcement or Services to Children and Families immediately.

For an emergency, dial 911
Children Services Department, 541-686-7557 (24 hours)