National Nutrition Month Spotlight: Wilkes Community Partnership for Children Increases Access to Fresh Food

National Nutrition Month Spotlight: Wilkes Community Partnership for Children Increases Access to Fresh Food

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...

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National Nutrition Month Spotlight: Down East Partnership for Children (DEPC) Addresses Food Procurement through Community Partnerships, Education, and Experiential Learning

National Nutrition Month Spotlight: Down East Partnership for Children (DEPC) Addresses Food Procurement through Community Partnerships, Education, and Experiential Learning

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...

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National Nutrition Month Spotlight: Partnership for Children of Wayne County Makes an Impact On Child Care Food Purchasing

National Nutrition Month Spotlight: Partnership for Children of Wayne County Makes an Impact On Child Care Food Purchasing

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...

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Cabarrus Partnership for Children Addresses High Quality Child Care

Child care providers and teachers work daily to ensure children have the support they need to thrive. However, as the state continues to battle the pandemic, early child care providers are still struggling, experiencing financial challenges and difficulty with...

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Durham’s Partnership for Children Expands Pre-K for Durham County’s Children

In 2017, Durham County rallied stakeholders to engage in developing a taskforce to drive efforts to improve early childhood outcomes for children in the county. The work of the task force led to funding from the county government to...

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Robeson County Partnership for Children uses CLASS tool and My Teaching Partner Coaching to assist in ECE classrooms

Robeson County Partnership for Children has been funding use of the CLASS tool and My Teaching Partner Coaching with teachers since 2013. My Teaching Partner is designed to address the complexity of being...

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Partnership for Children of Lenoir and Green Counties celebrates One Year of StoryWalk

The Partnership for Children of Lenoir and Green Counties hosted a one year celebration of Lenoir County StoryWalk. The celebration included a scavenger hunt, gardening, physical activity, and an opportunity to experience interactive learning. StoryWalk is an interactive, literacy experience...

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Buncombe County Partnership for Children Receives NCWorks Local Innovation Grant

Buncombe Partnership for Children received a $400,000 grant to help expand the Western North Carolina (WNC) Early Childhood Workforce Development Program which addresses the shortage of early childhood educators. Buncombe will lead the initiative to increase the number of teachers...

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Alamance Partnership for Children Hosted its Sixth Annual Early Education Summit

Local Partnership hosts Sixth Annual Early Education Summit  Alamance Partnership for Children hosted its Sixth Annual Early Education Summit on January 22.  The Summit created a forum for the local community to discuss early childhood education and was a big hit...

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Partnership for Children of Cumberland County Helps in the Creation of NC’s first Community Child Abuse Prevention Plan

The Partnership for Children of Cumberland County and 40 other agencies met as part of a collective movement to ensure that all families and children lead healthy and prosperous lives.  The Partnership for Children of Cumberland County worked alongside Prevent Child Abuse...

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