• Families nurture, teach and provide for their young children.
• Children will be born healthy and remain healthy.
• Families with young children are able to find and afford high-quality child care when needed.
• Children enter school eager to learn and ready to succeed.
• Children live in communities that support healthy families.

For information on Smart Start Oklahoma and United Way's early learning initiative, Born Learning, please follow the link to bornlearning.org or contact United Way of Central Oklahoma.

If children are not being prepared to read—or even open a book, recognize colors, numbers or the alphabet—it creates a serious problem for the whole community. There is a significant advantage for children who have been exposed to a number of different words in the home and to encouraging messages.”