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Families Can Sign-up with Smart Start and DPIL to Receive a Bilingual Book Each Month Starting in June. The North Carolina Partnership for Children and the Smart Start Network is excited to announce a significant expansion of Dolly Parton’s Imagination...

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...

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...

The Smart Start Network works year-round to ensure children and families are supported, creating a brighter future for each child in every community. Each Local Partnership provides critical social and emotional support, needed resources and referrals, crucial infrastructure support,...

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...

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...

Since December of 2017, Smart Start has sent over 8 million books to young children across North Carolina through Dolly Parton's Imagination Library (DPIL)! This milestone is a testament to the hard work by our local partnerships across North...

The Catawba Partnership for Children and the Catawba Leadership Academy are installing 12 Little Free Libraries to encourage families to grab a free book.  Little Free Libraries, free standing, weather-resistant wooden boxes, house books for families to grab to read...

In July of 2017 The Orange County Partnership for Young Children transitioned from implementing Every Child Ready to Read to the project Time to Read which incorporates training child care teachers and staff in Story Exploring.  Story Exploring provides strategies...