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About Us The vision of Ready to Learn Providence, a program of The Providence Plan, is that all children in Providence will enter school healthy and ready to learn. Since 2002, R2LP has built a collaboration with partners in the community who share this vision. These partners include early-care and public-school educators, city librarians, health-care professionals, family-care providers, and, above all, parents. Indeed, with over 100 local representatives involved in its planning and governance, R2LP has built the largest constituency in the city devoted to school readiness. Funded with public and private money, R2LP supports programs that improve the quality of early-care education in the city, such as professional development for providers and literacy activities for parents. Parents and providers also play a key role on R2LP committees and teams, helping to shape policies that affect their daily lives and the well-being of their children. Because R2LP believes that the best decisions and policies are based on reliable data, R2LP devotes some of its resources to research. In March 2005, it released an ambitious report on the well-being of the city’s youngsters titled How Ready Is Providence? In 2008, it updated six of the indicators addressed in the initial report. As large as the R2LP community is right now, R2LP is always seeking to expand it. R2LP firmly believes that change will occur only if that change reflects the wants and needs of the city’s residents. In this website, parents, providers and others will find many opportunities to participate in this critical initiative. Current priorities of the R2LP community include:
Please take a few minutes to read more about the many exciting programs and activities designed to help you or your children, and to learn how you, too, can play a role in realizing R2LP’s vision. |
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