On August 1st, The Best Place for Kids and Read Fort Worth hosted Road to Readiness Drive-Up Carnivals in 6 locations across Fort Worth serving 4,000 local families and students. Along with music and live entertainment (as well as an appearance by Mayor Betsy Price!), the carnivals featured 4 different tents of resources and giveaways […]
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Several organizations in Fort Worth, including some educators, banded together to help families prepare for school in a drive-thru event Saturday. For many North Texas families, remote learning is the task at hand to begin the new school year. Events around Fort Worth on Saturday were planned with that in mind. Click here to […]
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With a new school year approaching and many districts making the decision to modify instruction settings starting out, a community effort in Fort Worth aimed to better prepare families. Read more at nbcdfw.com
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On Saturday, August 1st Fort Worth families had the opportunity to hop in the car, experience a little fun and at the same time pick up valuable free resources for the school year. Cheraya Peña from The Best Place for Kids!® talks to Good Day about the drive-up “Road to Readiness” carnivals.
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Mayor Price highlights local resources available for parents and kids with Fort Worth’s Best Place for Kids!® program director, Cheraya Peña.
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Two local nonprofits – The Best Place For Kids!® and Read Fort Worth – are teaming up to help families with kids who are pre-K thru third grade by bringing school supplies and resources right to Fort Worth neighborhoods. This summer partnership aims to help kids meet their full academic potential by meeting students and […]
Read MoreIn collaboration with SMU’s Center on Research and Evaluation (CORE) and as Part II of a series of collecting and sharing key business leader insights, The Best Place for Working Parents® surveyed business leaders across Texas in May 2020 to gather insights about the future of the Texas workforce post-COVID. The key objectives of the […]
Read MoreThe Best Place for Kids® extends a sincere “thank you” to The Fort Worth Association of Professional Landmen for contributing the funds raised at their annual golf tournament held at the Bear Creek Golf Club on June 26th, 2020. Their generous support aided our efforts to impact 4,000 local families and students at our community […]
Read MoreFort Worth Business Press: Going back to work, but need childcare? There’s a website for that
Read MoreAs Texans Head Back to Work: Parents Can Locate Available Child Care Using FIND!, Free Child Care Search Tool Fort Worth, Texas, May 20, 2020 – As Texas begins to re-open businesses, all parents can now readily locate available licensed child care in Tarrant County for children ages 0-12 years of age using the free […]
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