Association for the Education of Young Children - Southeast Alaska

Services to child care providers - services provided within this program include training, professional development, and support to child care providers: child care food services providing reimbursement to providers for food served during care; technical onsite assistance; Education incentives; other support with child care licensing and assistance. During this reporting period twelve individuals working in licensed child care programes received assistance with cda training.

Community support programs - projects related to parenting, literacy and health promotion. Family night at the turf field was held for 16 sessions with total participation of 2,400. Headstart and family child care homes and centers participated in weekly sessions at the turf field house with 1,730 Children for a total of 62,300 participant hours of physical Education activities. Born learning bulletins were sent to 1300 families each month for 9 months of the grant year. Dolly parton's imagination library had 1,500 Children signed up to receive a book a month and over 16,000 books were distributed. Our annual community event, early learning fair and kindergarten registration, was held with attendance of over 250 families.

Parent support services - home visitation program for families with Children from prenatal to three years old. Services were provided to 125 families and 161 Children in juneau. 746 home visits were conducted and families received developmental screenings and referrals to programs as needed. Program also sponsors monthly group connection meetings, which are an opportunity for parents to meet each other and learn from a theme-based activity. 16 connection meetings were held in juneau with a total of 185 participants. Circles of security parent Education classes were held to increase parenting skills and parent/child attachment. A total of 40 parents attended the 4 sessions of eight week classes.