Harnett County Partnership For Children Hosts Leaders For Readers Event
Harnett County Partnership For Children Hosts Leaders For Readers Event
The Daily Record 05/11/2012, Page A02
The Harnett County Partnership for Children (HCPC) hosted Leaders for Readers in celebration of Week of the Young Child. Week of the Young Child is a national annual celebration sponsored by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), to focus public attention on the needs of young children and their families and to recognize the early childhood programs and services that meet those needs.
HCPC was delighted to have former educator Fay Etheridge, Superintendent of Harnett County Schools Tom Frye and candidate for N.C. House of Representatives Joe Langley participate in Leaders for Readers. The group enjoyed breakfast at the Harnett County Partnership for Children while discussing early childhood topics and discussing the importance of early childhood investments.
“Children’s earliest experiences literally determine how their brains are wired. With quality early childhood education, children will be school ready, have higher graduation rates and grow into productive citizens,” said Lisa Familo, executive director of HCPC.
Following the breakfast, participants departed to three local N.C. Pre-K classrooms to read and spend time with Harnett County’s youngest citizens. N.C. Pre-K is North Carolina’s prekindergarten program for 4-year-old children. It is designed to help prepare 4-year-old children for kindergarten, through a curriculum-based, classroom-style learning environment.
Each Leaders for Readers participant read the book “The Crayon Box that Talked” by Shane DeRolf. Fay Etheridge read at Lillington-Shawtown Elementary School, Superintendent Tom Frye read at North Harnett Primary School and Joe Langley read at Lilly Pads Child Development Center.
About HCPC
The Harnett County Partnership for Children is a nonprofit organization which utilizes Smart Start and N.C. Pre-K funds as well as private donations to provide programs and services that impact children during the earliest years of life, birth through age 5. For more information about Smart Start services in Harnett County, contact 893-2344 or www.harnettsmartstart.org.
