ProvPlan's programs focus on helping families in need to get a leg up on the road to economic self-sufficiency and break the cycle of poverty.
In practice, this means preparing children to get the most out of their educations and working with adults to get the training they need to find meaningful careers.
Ready to Learn
The vision of Ready to Learn Providence (R2LP) is that all children in Providence will enter school healthy and ready to learn.
R2LP takes a multi-faceted approach to this vision, with a focus on strategies that support systemic change in the early care and education system. R2LP supports existing programs that serve young children and their families, brings new initiatives to the city that have been successful elsewhere, and uses data and information to help shape public policy.
In its day-to-day work, R2LP delivers free professional development – in English and Spanish – to home- and center-based early childhood educators in Rhode Island. The initiative also develops and delivers workshops for families that promote learning at home. A 35-member AmeriCorps team furthers the program’s work in libraries, early-education, and health-care settings throughout the community, and R2LP also operates one of seven classrooms in the state’s Pre-kindergarten Demonstration Project. Earlier this year, R2LP also became the home of T.E.A.C.H. Early Childhood® Rhode Island, a program that provides higher education scholarships to the incumbent early childhood workforce.
