The Success by Six Hospital-Based Intervention Project is a partnership between the Sioux Empire United Way and Sanford Children’s CHILD Services. This project consists of three major programs:

1. Temperament Program: Provides insight and understanding about young children.
2. Parenting Guide Program: Provides information to parents of children birth to three in the Sioux Empire United Way area.
3. Parent Portfolio Program: Provides information and resources to new parents upon the arrival of their child. 

Program Goals:

• Parents of children birth to six years old will have the knowledge, tools and skills to practice parenting that encourages their child’s physical, emotional, social and cognitive development.
• There will be a continuum of care of parenting support for post partum families from one’s hospital stay to daily life in their community.
• Childcare Providers and Early Childhood teachers of children birth to six years old will have the knowledge, tools and skills to practice caregiving and teaching that encourages children’s physical, emotional, social and cognitive development.

Objectives:

Provide parents, child care providers and early learning teachers an opportunity to learn about children’s temperament and its impact on the adult/child relationship.

• Increased knowledge of temperament.
• Decreased behavior management frustration.
• Increased insight and tolerance of children’s day to day reactions to their environments.
• Increase parental access to helpful parenting information relevant to child’s age.
• Increase parent ability to locate community service or parenting information.

To access services contact us at (605) 333-0698 email childsrv@sanfordhealth.org