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About Us
Counseling
- Inside Out
- Teen Counseling Program
Family Support
- Healthy Families
- REAL Dads
Early Learning
Join Us
Donate

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Shannon Banks
(434) 296-4118 ext. 238
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Our very own Sarah Carter, Director of Family Supp

Our very own Sarah Carter, Director of Family Support, was selected to represent the state of Virginia on a national committee for Healthy Families America.

She says, "I am excited and honored to have been chosen to be a part of a national committee for Healthy Families America. I look forward to being able to listen, learn, and grow professionally while also being able to represent Virginia and more specifically the unique, local communities of Charlottesville and Albemarle."

Congratulations Sarah!

#Charlottesville #Cville #CvilleVA #HealthyFamiliesAmerica

¿Usted sabe que hay un canal de ReadyKids en YouT

¿Usted sabe que hay un canal de ReadyKids en YouTube completamente en español? Lo tiene información sobre la crianza de los niños. Este mes, Belén nos habla sobre la importancia del juego para los niños. El juego es un clave al desarollo saludable. Para ver más, visita los enlaces de nuestro perfil.

#Charlottesville #Cville #CvilleVA #sehablaespañol #ElJugarEsAprender #Juego #Desarollo #desarolloinfantil #niñossanos #niñossanosyfelices #Latino #Latina #Latinx

We're hiring! We're looking for a full time Famil

We're hiring! We're looking for a full time Family Support Worker who will initiate regular and long-term support with women who are pregnant and/or families who have children age 5 and under.

Visit https://readykidscville.org/join-us/jobs/ to find out
more and apply.

#Charlottesville #Cville #CvilleVA #NowHiring #NonProfitJobOpening

Today is National Son and Daughter day! We'd like

Today is National Son and Daughter day! We'd like to send a special shout out to the mother-daughter team of Stacy and Lily Bolling who held a snack drive in their Charlottesville neighborhood to benefit the ReadyKids Inside Out Counseling program. Thank you so much!

#Charlottesville #Cville #CvilleVA #SnackDrive #NationalDaughterDay #Nonprofit #DonationDrive

On Mondays through the summer ReadyKids is celebra

On Mondays through the summer ReadyKids is celebrating our staff who made nothing short of magic happen over this past pandemic school year. We're highlighting the moments they remember most, moments tied up with both sorrow and with joy. Here's one from Sharon Taylor, a Family Support Counselor, and Jackie Baylink, a STAR Kids Educator. It's from April of 2021, during Child Abuse Prevention Month, while they were putting together Pinwheels for Prevention kits to raise awareness about ways the Charlottesville community can help prevent child abuse during the pandemic.

"We were laughing about how many pinwheels to put in each and when the wind kicked up they started to spin. We were like a bunch of kids again. Saying ooooh look at them spin."

The pinwheel is the national symbol for child abuse prevention. By its very nature, the pinwheel connotes playfulness, joy, and childhood. It has come to serve as a physical reminder of the great childhoods we want for all children. Thank you Jackie, and thank you to all of our staff who kept their sense of child-like wonder while engaging with children and families.

#Charlottesville #Cville #CvilleVA #ChildAbusePrevention #PinwheelsForPrevention #StaffAppreciation

The American Rescue Plan has several benefits for

The American Rescue Plan has several benefits for families and children, including an improved child tax credit. To find out more about the financial benefits for children and families of the American Rescue Plan (including rental relief assistance and a childcare expenses tax credit), visit @va_kids or https://vakids.org/take-action/american-rescue-plan-benefits

#Charlottesville #Cville #Parenting #TaxCredit #AmericanRescuePlan #ChildTaxCredit

On Mondays through the summer ReadyKids is celebra

On Mondays through the summer ReadyKids is celebrating our staff who made nothing short of magic happen over this past pandemic school year. We're highlighting the moments they remember most, moments tied up with both sorrow and with joy. Here's one from Maria Stein, a STAR Kids Educator.

"In a regular year as a STAR Kids Educator, I get to visit each of the classrooms I work with twice a week. With COVID, all the lessons had to be videotaped. Classroom teachers were generous in sharing the short amount of time they had online with their children with me, so I could interact with them live. Our curriculum has three puppets - Al, Ty and Keisha, and the kids love all of them. We used this online class time to color Al and Ty finger puppets. The kids chose the colors I used to decorate my puppets, and they colored their own at home. It was a wonderful time to be creative together, and hopefully the kids continued to use their puppets at home throughout the year.”

Thank you Maria, and thank you to all of our staff who found ways to be creative across the divide of Zoom!

#Charlottesville #Cville #CvilleVA #AlsPals #STARkids #OnlineTeaching #VirtualTeaching #ZoomTeaching #SocialEmotionalEducation #SocialEmotionalLearning

The United Way Caring in Community awards recogniz

The United Way Caring in Community awards recognize exceptional community service, support and work by individuals and organizations over the past year. We are so proud of our very own Gail Esterman, who has been nominated in the "above and beyond nonprofit employee" category.

For the past year, Gail and her team have provided ongoing crisis support to more than 550 early childhood educators throughout the area. They have offered professional, emotional, and COVID support (and everything in between) to so many people! Gail has been a critical part of ensuring that children in our community - and those who care for them - have the very best care.

We are honored to have Gail as a part of our community. As the nomination says, "she is an amazing person who is dedicated to early learning in Charlottesville and the surrounding areas."

Congratulations Gail! Please help us thank and recognize her by voting here!

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/CaringForCommunityAwardsVote2021

#unitedway #charlottesville #cville #communityheroes #earlychildhoodeducation #lookforthehelpers

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