School Ready Plan
The Scott County Community Empowerment Board funds programs in the Scott County Empowerment Area to implement the School Ready Plan - Steps to Success.
Vision
The Scott County Empowerment Area vision is coordination and expansion of resources and services in the community to build environments for young children that enable them to be physically healthy, intellectually curious, emotionally sound, and socially competent. Led by citizens, this system of public and private entities provides a continuum of seamless services targeted at helping children reach their full potential.
Guiding Principles
The following principles create the philosophy supporting the Empowerment Plan - Steps to Success.
- Every child has a right to be safe, healthy, intellectually stimulated, and nurtured.
- Parents are the first and most important teacher of their child and may benefit in learning more effective parenting.
- Every Family has strengths that can be enhanced. Every family is unique.
- The well being of children in the community is the responsibility of all adults in the community.
- Support, knowledge of child development, and improved parenting skills reduce risk factors and school failure.
- The earlier the intervention occurs to support children and parents, the greater the odds of success.
- Every family needs support. Different families may need different levels of support, this a continuum of support is essential for all children to be school ready.
- Lasting success for children and families takes coordinated efforts by all involved over a continued period of time.
The principles/values support our overall philosophy that we can accomplish more to impact lives by working together in a synergistic system than we can work separately. Supported by human and financial resources from all sectors with an informed community, solutions must focus on individual strengths of children and families and include long-range service delivery system change.
| A complete, updated copy of the School Ready Plan (21 pages) can be found at the reference desk of the Davenport, Bettendorf and North Scott public libraries or by contacting the Empowerment office at (563) 326-8221. |