Each Child. Every Community.

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...

Raising Healthy Children is a Community Effort by Khadijia Tribié Reid, MD, MPH It was my turn. After two years of providing guidance to thousands of parents as the town pediatrician, I would become a mom for the first time. I...

The Smart Start Network works year-round to ensure children and families thrive, creating a brighter future for each child in every community. To celebrate the new year, Smart Start will showcase the impact of the Network with early care...

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...

Smart Start is working across the state to elevate the voices of family leaders and support them in advocating for their children and their communities. Governor Cooper recognizes the importance of lifting up Family Voice, and November has been...

- For Immediate Release (Download press release PDF) - NC Healthy & Resilient Communities Initiative Funds 9 Nonprofits to Support Resilience The North Carolina Healthy and Resilient Communities Initiative (NCH&RCI), housed at the North Carolina Partnership for Children (NCPC) has granted...

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...

“Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.” —...

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....