Durham's Partnership for Children

Quality early care and education - based on research showing the long-term impact on early education, the Partnership focuses on strategies that improve the quality of child care, increase access to child care for low income families, and support early childhood teacher education. The Partnership also offers nc pre-k, a quality pre-kindergarten classroom program for 628 at risk four year olds. The Partnership is a durham pre-k partner. Durham pre-k is a county-funded initiative that ensures all 4-year old Children in durham county have access to high-quality pre-kindergarten. The Partnership manages two federal grants to provide full comprehensive early head start services to 172 infants and toddlers (0-3) via two program models, center-based and home based services.

Community development and capacity building - the Partnership funds a community outreach, information and resources activity and a program coordination and evaluation activity, both of which focus on community development and capacity building. The community outreach, information and resources activity creates educational materials; develops, manages, and supports public relations activities; and coordinates events in order to build awareness of issues affecting young Children and their families. Th program coordination and evaluation activity conducts technical assistance, monitoring, evaluation, program development, data collection and analysis and needs assessments in order to achieve program excellence and effectiveness. Several community based iniatives also fall under program coordination: transition to kindergarten, the early childhood mental health task force, durhaess.

Health, early intervention and family support - physical and developmental health is critical to a child being in the best condition to learn. In response to this need, Durham's Partnership for Children invests in a variety of evidence based/evidence informed programs that offer support for parents and Children's health and developmental interventions. The Partnership funds a continuum of family support programming in english and spanish in durham county including linking families to community resources, curriculum-based parent education and literacy series, consultation and training on Children with challenging behaviors, intensive home visiting programs, case management, and child safety support. A literacy program provides books and encourage early literacy to reach more than 9,000 Children through dolly parton's imagination library.