Caring for Children - The vision of the Caring for Children Focus Area is to ensure a community in which all children in Davidson County are born healthy, grow up healthy, are nurtured by informed parents/caregivers and have access to quality preschool programs.
With your investment, United Way is changing lives:
- 1,581 low-income children achieved age-appropriate developmental goals and are better prepared to succeed at home, in school, and in the community because they attended quality child-care programs.
- 77 families with medically fragile babies developed the skills and resources to care for their sick infants.
Through this focus area, United Way invests your dollars in programs that focus on:
- Quality childcare
- Early intervention
United Way of Metropolitan Nashville invests $1,177,822 in programs that care for young children in our community. Listed below are the programs that have received funding in from July 2006 to June 2007.
- Bethlehem Centers of Nashville, Bethlehem Centers of Nashville Child Development Program
- Blakemore United Methodist Children's Center, Blakemore Children's Center
- Fannie Battle Day Home, Inc., Early Childhood Education
- First Steps, Inc., Community Outreach Program (COP)
- First Steps, Inc., Child Development Center
- Grace M. Eaton Child Care and Parent Resource Center, Pre-School Program
- Holly Street Day Care Center, Holly Street Day Care
- King's Daughters Day Home, Day Care for Low-Income Families
- Martha O'Bryan Center, Inc., Martha O'Bryan's Early Learning Center
- McNeilly Center for Children, McNeilly School Age Program
- McNeilly Center for Children, McNeilly Preschool Program
- McNeilly Center for Children, Nashville Child Center
- Nurses for Newborns of TN, Bridge to the Future
- Outlook Nashville, Inc., Outlook Nashville Early Childhood Center
- The Salvation Army, Junior League/Metro Social Services Child Care Center
- St. Luke's Community House, St. Luke's Youth Development Program
- St. Luke's Community House, St. Luke's Child Development Program
- St. Mary Villa, St. Mary Villa Child Development Center
- Vanderbilt's Susan Gray School for Children, Toddler and Preschool Classrooms at the Susan Gray School
- Vanderbilt's Susan Gray School for Children, Susan Gray Early Intervention Outreach Program
For funding information on all programs by agency, click here.
United Way maximizes your gift to care for young children at Family Resource Centers by combining resources in specific neighborhoods.
At the Northeast Nashville Family Resource Center, The Red Shield Family Initiative provides full-time childcare and offers developmentally appropriate activities to children who are six weeks through five years of age, so that parents may attend school, be in a job training program, or work. Children enrolled in this program will achieve social, emotional, physical and intellectual development goals.
Click here for more information about the Northeast Nashville Family Resource Center.
