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Surry County Early Childhood Partnership, Inc. partially funds specific activities within various local agencies in Surry County. These activities are designed to enhance the lives of 0—5 year old children and their families. The following is a list of Smart Start activities in Surry County for fiscal year 2011-2012:

  • Elkin City Schools' Building Stronger Foundation for Early Learning activity targets children that are at-risk for success in kindergarten due to social, economic, language, cultural, or developmental delays.

  • Surry County School's Family Literacy/Parents as Teachers activity uses family literacy programs to suggest learning opportunities that encourage language and intellectual growth, as well as physical and social skills.  Program serves families with children aged one and until their child enters kindergarten, usually age five and is targeted to Hispanic and Latino families who may have limited English proficiency.

  • Mount Airy City Schools' Mount Airy Pre-K activity provides a quality early childhood program for educationally disadvantaged four-year-olds prior to their entrance into a public school setting.  Participation in the program will broaden educational experiences and enhance school readiness skills and their transition to kindergarten.

  • Surry County School's 4 Year Old School Ready activity promotes school readiness through readiness intervention sessions.  Thirteen Pre-K classrooms at eleven elementary school sites will operate on a regular school calendar and regular school day to provide developmentally appropriate instructional services enhancing social and literacy skills for up to 185 preschool children.

  • Children's Center of Surry's Family Resource Coordinator will provide information, support, group-based sessions, home visitation and referrals to community resources.  The program will utilize the Nurturing Parenting Program for Parents and Their Children with Health Challenges.  Families will have the option of receiving program and services through home visitation for 8 weeks with 1 1/2 to 2 hours sessions, or group-based sessions for 8 weeks with 2 hour sessions. 

  • Children's Center of Surry's The Nurturing Parenting Program activity will be provided for families and their children birth to five, living in Surry County and at risk of child abuse and neglect and/or domestic violence.

  • DSS Subsidy activity in which Smart Start funds are dispenses in conjunction with the regular county child care subsidy program for financial assistance for all families with children age 0-5 who are income eligible, both parents working, single parent working or full time students.

  • Surry County Early Childhood Partnership's Administration provides support to all Smart Start programs, including Direct Service Providers and In-house activities, the North Carolina Partnership for children and the state auditor.

  • Surry County Early Childhood Partnership's Child Care Resource and Referral provides child care referrals to families, works with child care providers through training and technical assistance to raise the quality of child care and provides information to the community about child care concerns.  This activity provides sick leave pay and star bonuses to eligible child care providers.

  • Surry County Early Childhood Partnership's NCPK Program Coordinator.  SCECP will provide NCPK services up to the allocated number of slots as determined by the NCPK program agreement in the following types of facilities:  Public schools, Head Start programs, non-profit child care centers and for-profit child care centers.  The Surry County Early Childhood Partnership will act as the designated administrative agency for the NCPK contract.  The Coordinator will assist in the oversight procedures to ensure meeting the requirements that are established and set forth by the NCPK Program for all participating sites.

  • Surry County Early Childhood Partnership's Evaluation and Program Coordination compiles data from Direct Service Providers and In-house activities for reporting to NCPC and the state legislature.  Involved in contract monitoring, including both programmatic and fiscal components.

  • WAGE$ provides incentives for child care workers to decrease turnover rates, increase education levels, and increase professional recognition.

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To contact us:

 Telephone: 336-786-1880
Fax: 336-786-1879

Email: smartstartofsurry@embarqmail.com