Ready Start TERREBONNE Early Education Fund

Your gift to the Ready Start Terrebonne Early Education Fund at Bayou Community Foundation directly funds seats at high-quality early care and education centers for low-income Terrebonne families with infants, toddlers, and three-year-old children.

Research shows that high-quality early care and education (ECE) is one of the best investments we can make for our children, workforce, and economy. However, in Terrebonne Parish, more than 6,000 infants and toddlers birth to 5 are not enrolled in an early learning program.

Ready Start Terrebonne (RST) is building capacity and increasing access to publicly funded seats to ensure all children have the foundations for success and to enable parents to participate in the workforce.