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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.
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Lifespan'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.
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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.
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NC Cooperative Extension's EFNEP
(Expanded Food and Nutrition Educational Program) activity teaches
parents about the value of proper nutrition, food buying, food safety, and meal
planning.
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Northwestern Regional Library's
Literacy Outreach activity exposes kids to books, stories, and
activities, as an encouragement toward lifelong learning.
Literacy Outreach Coordinators will travel to Surry County child
care centers and homes to provide early literacy activities to
children ages 0-5.
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Surry County Health and Nutrition
Center's Health, Education, & Well-being activity will
refer children birth to five who need health or developmental
screenings; teach health, safety, nutrition, and child development
seminars for childcare providers in childcare centers and homes, and
provide limited education directly to children. Chart audits
at the childcare facilities will be done to ensure that health
policies and procedures are in place, that children have a medical
home, and that immunizations are up to date. Toothbrushes and
toothpaste will be purchased for educational purposes and
distributed to children in centers and homes until supplies are
depleted. Children will be screened and referrals made to
pediatric dentists for children 0-5 of age who do not have Medicaid
or insurance.
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Surry County Health and Nutrition
Center's In-Home Breastfeeding activity purpose is to
encourage and educate mothers to breastfeed to improve the health of
their children.
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Surry County School's 4 Year Old
School Ready activity promotes school readiness through
readiness intervention sessions. Twelve Pre-K classrooms at
nine 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 180 preschool children.
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Surry County School's Teaching for
Tomorrow activity encourages teenage mothers and fathers to
complete their high, school education or the equivalent and
introduces them to services and resources they may use.
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Children's Center of Surry's Family
Resource Coordinator will provide information, support,
and referrals for children birth to five with special needs.
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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.
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Children's Center of Surry's Parents
as Teachers/Newborn Coordinator activity will provide 9-week
sessions of prenatal classes followed by hospital and home
visitation until the child reaches 3 months of age. Families
will be provided with information packets and community resource
directory to help them access needed services. Families in
need of further assistance or at risk of developmental delays will
be provided with Parents as Teachers, which includes home visitation
and bi-monthly group meetings to increase parent knowledge of early
childhood development, improve parenting practices and increase
school readiness.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Surry County Early Childhood
Partnership's MAF Program Coordinator will coordinate MAF
Pre-K Program services for up to 400 slots in the following
facilities: Public School classrooms, Head Start classrooms,
private for profit and non-profit early care and education
facilities in Surry County. Will assist in the oversight
procedures to ensure meeting the requirements that are established
and set forth by the More at Four Pre-K Program for all
participating sites.
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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.
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Surry County Early Childhood
Partnership's Substitute Reimbursement activity will promote
teacher education by providing a supplement to offset the cost of
hiring a substitute while a child care provider attends college
credit classes during regularly scheduled work hours.
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WAGE$ provides
incentives for child care workers to decrease turnover rates,
increase education levels, and increase professional recognition.
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Surry County Early Childhood
Partnership's Enhancement activity provides sick leave pay
and star bonuses to eligible child care providers. This
activity also provides training/technical assistance to child care
personnel.
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Surry County Early Childhood
Partnership's Expansion activity will provide a bonus to
child care centers for increasing the number of quality child care
slots for children birth to 5. Existing Surry County licensed
child care facilities that expand their total licensed capacity and
enroll new children will be eligible to receive a bonus.
