Jan
25
2022
Jan
25
2022
Jan
19
2022
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, more than 38 million Americans, including 12 million children, were food insecure in 2019. In North Carolina, 1.4 million people are food insecure, including 419,470 children, according to Feeding America.
COVID-19 has only exacerbated food...
Oct
28
2021
by Lisa Familo, Executive Director, The Iredell County Partnership for Young Children
The Need
COVID-19 has exposed the fragility of our early education workforce, all of which predated the arrival of the pandemic. Early childhood educators are the workforce behind the...
Sep
17
2021
The Smart Start network understands that North Carolina families’ needs are great in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, and their continued struggles have impacts for us all. Difficulty finding reliable child care is keeping many parents from the...
Sep
10
2021
My first year with NCPC and Smart Start has come to a close. Like many folks, these past 12 months were a time of tremendous change for me, both personally and professionally. I've learned about so many places across...
Aug
26
2021
Today is Women's Equality Day, when the nation marks the contributions that women have made to our democracy and progress toward realizing full equality of opportunity. The day recognizes the passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920, which symbolically...
Aug
03
2021
This is a joint blog post published by Marsha Basloe, President of Child Care Services Association, and Amy Cubbage, President of the North Carolina Partnership for Children. You may download this post as a PDF here.
It’s time to talk about the workforce...
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...
Apr
23
2021
The North Carolina General Assembly is deep into the 2021 Long Session. There are several big new opportunities for North Carolina to increase its level of investment in early childhood.
Federal COVID Relief. Earlier this year, Congress passed the...
