Each Child. Every Community.

About the NC Healthy & Resilient Communities Initiative Hosted by NCPC, the NC Healthy & Resilient Communities Initiative (NC HRCI) commenced in 2019 with a core mission of creating resilience across each generation by bringing together more than 50 multi-sector community collaboratives...

Guest Blog Post: Our Children’s Place Smart Start offers evidence-based and evidence-informed, family-focused programs that offer support and education to increase parental knowledge of development, enhance parent confidence, and increase positive parenting practices. Smart Start is also able to connect...

The Smart Start Network has worked alongside Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library (DPIL) to distribute over 15 million books to children across North Carolina. Smart Start and Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library- The History and Funding In 2017, Smart Start expanded Imagination Library...

Everything Happens in the Context of Relationships! At PBS North Carolina’s 2023 Impact Early Childhood Education Summit, Daphne Alsiyao, NCPC’s Family Support Manager, and Christina Peterson, Child and Family Health Manager, presented on the importance of relationships and how children’s...

- For Immediate Release (Download press release PDF) - New Website Will Engage Communities Statewide Around Resilience Download press release PDF RALEIGH- Resilient North Carolina, a website created by the NC Healthy & Resilient Communities Initiative (NCH&RCI), has launched. Resilient North...

Smart Start Recognizes the Impact of Community Based Doulas We must continue to reduce health inequities for black children and their families. We must do better. Smart Start’s mission is to advance a high quality, comprehensive, accountable early childhood system that benefits...

Healthy & Resilient Communities Dashboard Launched as Part of the NC Healthy & Resilient Communities Initiative The NC Healthy & Resilient Communities Initiative (NC HRCI) hosted by NCPC works to reduce adversity experienced in multiple realms by children and families...

Early health and development support is critical towards ensuring children grow into healthy adults. In celebration of National Nutrition Month, Smart Start is celebrating the work of Local Partnerships in promoting healthy eating, increasing healthy behavior patterns, and advancing...

Early health and development support is critical towards ensuring children grow into healthy adults. In celebration of National Nutrition Month, Smart Start is celebrating the work of Local Partnerships in promoting healthy eating, increasing healthy behavior patterns, and advancing...

Early health and development support is critical towards ensuring children grow into healthy adults. In celebration of National Nutrition Month, Smart Start is celebrating the work of Local Partnerships in promoting healthy eating, increasing healthy behavior patterns, and advancing...