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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  |  June 20, 2017 Press Contact: Heather Strickland 919-821-9564, 919-749-5013 [email protected] The following joint statement from Dolly Parton and Cindy Watkins, President of the North Carolina Partnership for Children/Smart Start, is in response to the release of the...

Shared Measures of Success to Put North Carolina Children on a Pathway to Grade-Level Reading is a new report that outlines the research basis behind the NC Pathways to Grade-Level Reading Measures of Success Framework: http://buildthefoundation.org/2017/06/new-report-outlines-research-behind-measures-that-move-the-needle-on-third-grade-reading/. Also, Pathways is inviting people and organizations...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE = February 24, 2017 Press Contact: Heather Strickland - 919-821-9564, [email protected] Two Smart Start Local Partnerships Take the Lead on Fighting Early Childhood Obesity – Wake County SmartStart (WCSS) and the Down East Partnership for Children (DEPC)...

New research from Nobel Laureate economist James J. Heckman and colleagues finds that comprehensive, birth-to-age-five early childhood programs can produce higher economic returns than those previously established for preschool programs serving 3- to 4-year-olds. Professor James Heckman and colleagues from...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 9, 2016 Press Contact: Heather Strickland, 919-821-9564, [email protected]   New Study Shows ABCD Increases Number of Young Children Being Detected for Developmental Delays – A recent report shows that a statewide partnership between Smart Start and Community Care...

  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - November 17, 2016 Press Contact: Heather Strickland, 919-821-9564, [email protected] The following statement is in response to a study by Duke University researchers that found that children who were enrolled in North Carolina’s early childhood programs (Smart Start and NC...

Over 40,000 Books Given to Children Through Smart Start and Reach Out & Read Recent Report Says Parents Participating in the Program Are More Likely to be Reading with Young Children – A recent report shows that a statewide partnership...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - August 16, 2016 Press Contact: Heather Strickland - 919-821-9564, $4 million from Social Innovation Fund will instill healthy behaviors in our youngest children for communities across North Carolina – Today, the North Carolina Partnership for Children (NCPC)/Smart Start...

The goal of this project is to build the first-in-the nation Child Care Health Consultant Certification (CCHC-C) process to address the need for qualified on-site support for health and safety in child care programs in NC... View the entire...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - Date: June 1, 2015 Contact: Heather Strickland - [email protected], 919-821-9564 RALEIGH — For the 12th consecutive year, The North Carolina Partnership for Children, Inc. (NCPC) has received a clean audit from the Office of State Auditor. A...