Jan
11
2024
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...
Jul
07
2023
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...
Jul
05
2023
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...
Jan
05
2023
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,...
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...
Dec
09
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...
Jun
04
2021
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...
Oct
14
2019
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...
Aug
15
2019
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...
Jun
04
2019
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...