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30% of Colorado’s 3rd Graders can’t read at grade level. Children who start behind stay behind. Eighty-five percent of a child’s brain is developed by age five. Children in poverty hear as many as 30 million fewer words than their wealthier peers before they reach kindergarten. School Readiness Initiative Mile High United Way’s School Readiness Initiative provides thousands of children from low-income families access to high-quality early education so they enter school ready to learn and read at grade level by the end of the third grade. Colorado’s graduation rate is 78%. 50% of students in Denver don’t graduate. Dropouts cost taxpayers more than $8 billion annually and they earn $10,000 less a year than workers with diplomas. Youth Success Initiative Mile High United Way’s Youth Success Initiative provides thousands of students access to mentoring, quality afterschool programs, tutoring and dropout prevention, gang and violence intervention programs. Students who participate in mentoring programs are 90% more likely to advance to the next grade and 75% more likely to graduate from high school. Photo Credit: Amy Loomis 12 SPECIAL NEEDS FOR SUCCESS 3-year-old William is a bright child with sensory issues. Certain sights, sounds - even smells can send him into a rage. Traditional pre-schools and daycares weren’t equipped to provide him with the support he needed. He wasn’t learning. He wasn’t progressing. Then William’s parents found help through Mile High United Way’s partner agency Children’s Outreach Project a nonprofit therapeutic preschool and child care center that offers integrated, quality, early childhood education to typical accelerated and developmentally delayed children. Now, William is thriving and on the road to success in the classroom and in life. We LIVE UNITED when children like William have the support they need to learn and grow. Give. Advocate. Volunteer. HAPPY TRAILS TO PROMISING LIVES Juan and Sazian both struggled as teenagers. Juan became a teen father. Sazian dropped out of school. They were both going nowhere fast until, with the help of Mile High United Way’s partner agency Mile High Youth Corps, an organization that helps youth make a difference in themselves and their community through meaningful community service opportunities and educational experiences, they got a second chance and are working, learning and planning for college. We LIVE UNITED when young men and women graduate from high school prepared for career training, higher education and life. www.UnitedWayDenver.org 13 Photo Credit: Amy Loomis
60% of Colorado’s homeless are women and their children. Colorado has the fastest growing rate of child poverty in the U.S. More that 48,000 working families live in poverty and don’t make enough to meet basic needs: child care, clothing, health care, housing and transportation without assistance. Adult Self-Sufficiency Initiative Mile High United Way’s Adult Self-Sufficiency Initiative devotes resources to programs that help low-income people increase financial skills, develop workforce experience and move toward economic self-sufficiency. BUILDING A SELF-SUFFICIENT LIFE Wayne’s construction business was floundering. He didn’t know what to do. Then he heard about Mile High United Way’s Individual Development Accounts, a program that provides matching savings accounts and financial and business education. Wayne got back on track and turned his business around. We LIVE UNITED when individuals and families have the resources and support they need to become self-sufficient. 15 www.UnitedWayDenver.org Photo Credit: Amy Loomis
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