Cleveland County Partnership for Children

Child care & education affordability care/subsidy: preschool classrooms served 20 at-risk and disabled Children in inclusive classrooms. Purchase of care/subsidy adminstration provided subsidized child care for 116 low income Children in regulated child care homes or licensed child care facilities having a minimum rating of 4 stars and 134 families were provided with star rating information. Early head start provided comprehensive childcare, education, health, and family support services for 162 low-income/at-risk Children aged birth through three.

Child care & education quality program: includes early head start, child care resource & referral, education bonuses, child care quality enhancement & sustainability, early childhood education specialists, and education-based salary supplements. Through child care resource and referral, 155 families received child care referrals; 195 direct service providers participated in one or more of the professional development training opportunities offered to child care providers, and 249 sessions of technical assistance were provided to child care center classrooms. 54 child care providers participated in the education bonuses program with 33 providers in child care facilities receiving an education bonus. Quality sustainability supplements were provided to 22 eligible four and five star child care facilities in order to maintain their current star rating. 40 licensed child care facilities participated in education-based salary supplements to 91 child care proffessionals. Early head start provided education and training for 34 child care center teachers, directors and staff and technical assistance, materials and equipment for quality improvement for 7 child care center facilities.

Nc pre-k program: provided preschool classrooms for Children who will be four years of age on or before august 31, 2021 based on established criteria including special needs, family income or developmental concerns in order to prepare program Children for educational success beginning in kindergarten. 435 Children were served in preschool classrooms; although on-site technical assistance visits to ncpk child care facilities were prohibited based on covid-19 child care rule provisions, 496 technical assistance services were provided to ncpk classrooms.

Family support - the dolly parton imagination library provided 35,987 books for 2,999 eligible Children in order to increase family literacy in Cleveland County and 456 informational packets were distributed to parents.