Feb
28
2022
In celebration of Family Support Awareness Month, Smart Start is taking time to recognize the importance of home visiting and parenting education services to early childhood development. Smart Start will feature select sessions from the 2022 Home Visiting &...
Feb
17
2022
In celebration of Family Support Awareness Month, Smart Start is taking time to recognize the importance of home visiting and parenting education services to early childhood development. Smart Start will feature select sessions from the 2022 Home Visiting &...
Feb
09
2022
In celebration of Family Support Awareness Month, Smart Start is taking time to recognize the importance of home visiting and parenting education services to early childhood development. Smart Start will feature select sessions from the 2022 Home Visiting &...
Jan
31
2022
Recognizing the Impact of Home Visiting & Parenting Education
By Amy Cubbage, President of the North Carolina Partnership for Children
Today the North Carolina Partnership for Children, Smart Start, the North Carolina Home Visiting & Parenting Education System Collaborative, and many partners kick...
Jan
21
2022
This week Smart Start celebrated a major milestone –10 million books sent to North Carolina children through Dolly Parton's Imagination Library!
Imagination Library is dedicated to inspiring a love of reading by gifting books free of charge to children from...
Jan
19
2022
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, more than 38 million Americans, including 12 million children, were food insecure in 2019. In North Carolina, 1.4 million people are food insecure, including 419,470 children, according to Feeding America.
COVID-19 has only exacerbated food...
Jan
17
2022
“Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic."
— Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
In honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., we reflect on this profound message. Our work at Smart Start requires us...
Jan
05
2022
The North Carolina Partnership for Children (NCPC) has released Shape NC: Celebrating the Shape NC Journey, a report highlighting Shape NC’s efforts to develop healthy lifestyles in young children across the state by promoting physical activity and healthy nutrition....
Dec
16
2021
In celebration of the upcoming new year, Smart Start is celebrating our hard work and taking this time to recognize the role of Smart Start local partnerships in each community. Smart Start is working across the state to create a...
Dec
14
2021
In celebration of the upcoming new year, Smart Start is celebrating our hard work and taking this time to recognize the role of Smart Start local partnerships in each community. Smart Start is working across the state to create a...
