Physical, social, emotional, and cognitive development also are important. School Readiness Project promotes school readiness by helping Wisconsin communities develop local coalitions linking people and organizations who are concerned about young children and their families. Evaluations of eight established School Readiness sites showed the projects increased networking among community agencies and produced higher quality and more integrated community services for young children and families. Each of the three original community projects greatly increased the number of children who are screened for physical and developmental problems by age three. In each of the last two years, the projects raised more than 5,140,000 in local community matching funds for new programming efforts for young children and their families.
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