Education

Helping Children and Youth Achieve Their Potential

To nurture children so they are able to grow physically, emotionally,
mentally and socially to their potential with emphasis on providing
youth the following essential elements for their healthy development:

• On-going relationships with caring adults
• Safe places and activities especially during non-school hours
•  A healthy start and future
• Marketable and appropriate life skills
• An opportunity to give back to the community through service
• Activities and Initiatives

Network of Currently Funded Direct Service Programs:

• Big Brothers Big Sisters
• Boys and Girls Club
• Family Support Network
• Friendship House
• Girl Scouts of
  MT & WY
• Head Start
• Tumbleweed
• Yellowstone AIDS (prevention education)
• Yellowstone CASA
• Young Families Early Headstart
• YWCA Children's Services

United Way of Yellowstone County Led Projects/Programs:

Discover Zone

A community partnership designed to deliver non-school time, skill-building activities
to students enrolled in Billings School District 2. Discover Zone is available to all
students enrolled at Lewis and Clark Middle School, Riverside Middle School and
Will James Middle School and is provided free of charge. Activities include tutoring,
mentoring, sports, arts, educational classes, community volunteer service and service
learning projects. These activities are taught by community agencies and/or volunteers
as part of the Discover Zone collaboration.

CARE ACADEMY

C.A.R.E. Academy offers programs during the schoolyear and summer that provide
a safe place for children under the supervision of qualified and caring adults.

Reading Matters

A Program that's purpose is to improve the vocabulary and language skills of the children
of Yellowstone County so that they are better prepared for school and life. United Way is
striving to do this by educating parents about the importance of reading and by providing age appropriate books to children in identified programs who are ages birth to six.