Blue Ridge Partnership for Children

Child care and education quality: includes program child care resource and referral. 81 parents/guardians received a direct resource and referral to community resources or services. In avery county, of the 254 Children enrolled in regulated childcare, 100% are enrolled in 4 or 5 star centers. In mitchell county, of the 177 Children enrolled in regulated child care, 56% are enrolled in 4 or 5 star centers. In yancey county, of the 234 Children enrolled in regulated child care, 68% are enrolled in 4 or 5 star centers. More than 89 teaching staff in licensed programs attended trainings sponsored by ccr&r (unduplicated) representing 13 centers/homes and impacting 493 Children. 233 visits were made to the family resource library with 1086 items being checked out.

Health & safety - provided costs for contracted child care health consultant serving avery, mitchell, yancey, mcdowell and madison counties, supporting the health & safety of Children and staff in child care centers across those five counties through october of 2023.

Family support: includes programs for transportation services, play and learn, imagination library and community outreach. 14 Children received transportation services from yancey county transportation authorty (ycta) to and from child care. Of the 5 health and human services agencies surveyed, 58% reported knowledge of smart start funded transportation services to child care and to health and human service agencies - 65% reported referring families to a brpfc service or program. 9 Children received transportation services from mitchell county transportation authority (mtca) to and from child care. 58% of agencies surveyed reported knowledge of transportation services being available for child care. 65% reported knowledge of transportation services being available for health and human services appointment. 45% reported that they supported families aranging transportation services. 16 parents/caregivers, along with 19 pre-school age Children participated in weekly play and learn groups in yancey county. Of the 2 parents/caregivers who were surveyed, 100% p report increasing their knowledge regarding activities that foster their child's learning and 100% report increased reading daily to their child after their first 8 sessions. The imagination library program distributed 21829 books to 2,249 Children. Community outreach staff convened 41 meetings and attended 102 meetings to improve the early childhood system of services. Additionally, 6,179 families were reached through quarterly newsletters and other media outlets - social media (79 posts), print media (17 newspaper articles) and radio (5 psas). 58% of agencies surveyed reported knowledge of transportation services services being available for child care with 45% reporting making arrangements.services. 65% reported knowledge of child care referral services with 29% referring families. 77% reported knowledge of the community resource library with 48% reporting either using the library or referring the library. 81% reported knowledge of dolly parton's imagination library with 58% assistaning families with signing up.

Child care and education affordability preschool scholarships. 10 Children received assistance with preschool tuition at church street preschool. 9 Children received assistance with preschool tuition at Children's garden. Of the 19 continuing in the program for the entire year, 78% demonstrated improvement/mastery on 75% of the school readiness indicators as evidenced by pre- and post- program evaluations.