Featured Initiatives
Smart Start helps North Carolina’s youngest children arrive at kindergarten healthy and ready to learn. Smart Start Local Partnerships support children and their families through innovation, flexibility, and collaboration, leveraging state support and local resources to support communities.
Each Local Partnership is supported by NCPC, and through the collective power of the Network, each is better equipped to support children, their families, and the professionals and community members that collectively support each child.
Smart Start may focus on a key critical issue to ensure children and families can thrive. NCPC and Local Partnerships will work together to create change across the state–using the collective power of the Network to impact children and families statewide.
Current featured initiatives include:
- NC Tri-Share Child Care Pilot: An opportunity provided through state investments in which there is a public/private partnership. Through Tri-Share the cost of child care will be shared equally between employers, eligible employees, and the state.
