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Bright By Text outreach Family Resource Fair

Bright by Text is a free texting service that sends parents and caregiver tips and resources promoting child development, targeted to a child’s age prenatal-8 years. This is part of United Way for Greater Austin's Success By 6 Strategic Plan which provides opportunities to families with young children to make sure every child in Austin, Travis County begins kindergarten happy, healthy, and ready! 

  • Ninety percent of brain development occurs by age five, and relationships between children and their caregivers are key to this development. Back and forth interactions with caring adults form connections in the child’s brain that promote healthy development, including social and emotional skills. Experiences early in life can have a lasting impact on later learning, behavior and health that can help set children up for success in school and life.
  • United Way for Greater Austin, in partnership with United Ways of Texas and PBS, has brought Bright By Text to your community.
  • The age-specific messages are comprised of research-based content from Bright by Three, Vroom, PBS Kids, PBS Parents, Fred Rogers and Sesame Workshop, as well as localized content targeted to the zip code of the family
  • Sending out local information on financial resources, covid updates, city and county changes

As part of a continuing effort to sign up caregivers, we would like you to promote Bright By Text at local events.

We have launched Mobile Family Resource Fairs which will be held regularly. Dates to be determined. 

You will be trained on Bright By Text before the event (on your computer), given talking to points to share with parents, hand out BBT items, and sign up caregivers (ipad).In addition, you will have support with from our 211 and Bright By Text team. 

Some of the feedback we have received from parents that are signed up with Bright By Text (BBT): 

BBT subscribers reported being less overwhelmed by their roles as parents and feeling more confident as parents as a result of receiving the texts

BBT subscribers reported high levels of verbal interaction with their children and reading more with their children

Thank you for joining our efforts in early childhood!

 

 

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Age Minimum (with Adult): 18+, Minimum Age:18+

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