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The Graustein Discovery Grant helps the organization implement its community plan for early childhood literacy programming, according to the release.
"Danbury's children benefit greatly when everyone works together to create an early childhood system--one in which schools, child care providers, businesses and the health community partner to prepare children for success in school,” said Caroline LaFleur, coordinator of Danbury's Promise for Children Partnership. “Underlying this system is a deep understanding that parents are their children's first and most important role models and teachers. This grant from the William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund is helping us build a city where all children have the chance for a great start in life."
Danbury’s Promise for Children Partnership was launched in 2007 and serves children from birth to age 8, helping to engage parents in early childhood education, according to the release. The organization focuses on increasing early language and literacy development, improving health, social and emotional development and improving ways of measuring those improvements, officials said in the release.
“Discovery communities are building on their own local resources to develop an early childhood system that reflects the needs and values of the community,” said David M. Nee, executive director of William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund. “We are pleased to support local collaborative councils, along with our state partners, with both funding and training, so that children of all races and income levels can become successful learners.”
The Discovery grant is supported by a partnership between the William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund, State Department of Education, Children’s Fund of Connecticut, the Annie E. Casey Foundation and the Connecticut Center for School Change, according to the statement.
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