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<br />Family Success Alliance fills gaps in community <br />Rachel Herzog | November 2, 2015 Photo by José Valle / The Daily Tar Heel <br /> <br />When Alecia Gattis thought about her son starting kindergarten in the fall, she felt panicked. <br />His daycare and preschool hadn’t had a lot of supervision, Gattis said, and allowed her son, Melvin <br />“Trey” Babbs, to wander from room to room.“ <br />Every time I picked him up, he was in another classroom, or he was in (the director’s) office,” she said. <br />Gattis was worried this freedom would translate to him not being able to sit in one place and learn in <br />kindergarten at Northside Elementary School. But then, Trey attended a three-week kindergarten <br />readiness program from the Family Success Alliance. <br />“I was really, really worried he would not be able to settle in and not be in trouble and not be such a <br />busybody, and that program, it worked,” Gattis said. <br />“Like, wonders.”