United Way of Buffalo & Erie County Hosts National Summer Learning Day 2025

Mayor Christopher P. Scanlon and the Metropolis of Buffalo, in collaboration with United Means of Buffalo & Erie County’s Youth Entry Coalition, proudly sponsored Nationwide Summer season Studying Day 2025 on Thursday, July 17, 2025, at Canalside. The occasion was designed to additional help Buffalo’s school-age youngsters as a part of a nationwide celebration selling the significance of enriching summer time studying applications which maintain all youngsters, particularly essentially the most weak, engaged, protected, lively and studying throughout the summer time months. This 12 months’s theme was “Studying Lifts Us — Let’s Elevate Our Palms Collectively!”

Nationwide Summer season Studying Day 2025 was hosted by the United Means’s Youth Entry Coalition in collaboration with Dwell Nicely Erie, Say Sure Buffalo, and BestSelf Behavioral Well being. Mayor Scanlon and the Police Athletic League of Buffalo sponsored the occasion as a part of Mayor Scanlon’s literacy initiative, known as Studying All-Stars – a brand new, year-round citywide initiative designed to encourage youngsters to learn and study, effectively past the classroom. In the present day’s occasion introduced over 1,600 younger learners to Canalside, the place they loved a lot of actions related to Literacy and Studying, Arts, Wellness, Well being & Sports activities, STEM, Neighborhood and Management.

Mayor Christopher P. Scanlon mentioned, “In the present day, we have fun extra than simply summer time studying. We have fun the assumption that studying lifts us and once we elevate our palms collectively, we rise collectively. Nationwide Summer season Studying Day shines a light-weight on the significance of summer time studying in selling tutorial success, private progress and shutting alternative gaps. I’m so grateful to our many educators, mentors and group leaders who work year-round to arrange our youngsters for future success. Participating in afterschool applications, in addition to summer time applications, retains our younger folks centered, engaged and on observe.”

“Thanks to Mayor Scanlon and the Metropolis of Buffalo for supporting Nationwide Summer season Leaning Day 2025,” mentioned Trina Burruss, President and CEO, United Means of Buffalo & Erie County. “On the United Means, we imagine each younger individual deserves to succeed. We empower youngsters to succeed in their full potential by breaking down obstacles to achievement, and our Youth Entry Coalition brings collectively organizations who share a collective imaginative and prescient to positively influence the lives of school-age youngsters.”

“Summer season applications do greater than maintain children studying—they strengthen total households. By providing protected, enriching environments, they provide youngsters room to develop and caregivers the help they should thrive. Studying lifts us all,” mentioned Talisa King, Nationwide Afterschool Alliance Ambassador of the Yr, and Dwell Nicely Erie Challenge Coordinator

Congressman Tim Kennedy mentioned, “Nationwide Summer season Studying Day is a reminder that schooling doesn’t take a summer time break, and neither ought to our dedication to our college students. After we put money into summer time and afterschool applications, we aren’t simply filling time—we’re fueling potential. These alternatives maintain college students studying, rising, and related to the help programs they should thrive. I’m proud to face with the educators, households, and group companions who be sure that each little one, regardless of their zip code, has a shot at success.”

Analysis reveals that the summer time months are among the most high-impact but high- want instances for America’s younger folks throughout their schooling and improvement. From lowering starvation and juvenile crime to selling literacy, math, STEM, bodily and psychological well being, structured, supervised and evidence-based summer time applications present options to quite a few challenges going through communities, working households, and youngsters. Investing in our kids is essential, now greater than ever we name on all for help to guard and strengthen–– not weaken–– the establishments that make summer time studying, meals, well being, enrichment and employment alternatives attainable for all college students.

This 12 months’s Neighborhood Exercise Companions included: