Program areas at CCPFC
Nc pre-kindergarten-77 four-year olds at risk of failure in kindergarten received quality pre-kindergarten services in order to enhance kindergarten readiness skills.
Family support- 3 early childhood education programs served as raising a reader sites. 58 Children participated in the program. 12 family literacy activities were provided. 92 parents/guardians participated in at least one family literacy activity.2 medical clinics participated in the reach out and read program; 117 developmentally appropriate new Children's books were distributed during well-child visits, changing the way parents interact with their Children around language and literacy and building home libraries. 760 Children participated in dolly parton's imagination library, including 162 new Children and 6,915 books were mailed to the participants.
Child care and education quality-through the quality child care program, 26 early childhood educators, representing 4 child care programs, attended non-credit based training or workshops. 9 trainings were provided. Through the resource lending library, 34 adults utilized the resource lending library, including 11 parents and 11 early childhood educators from 3 child care programs. Professional development incentives were provided to 15 early childhood educators working in 6 child care programs, helping to promote a stable and educated workforce by encouraging pursuit of higher education, providing increased compensation and supporting employment longevity. 3 early childhood educators from 3 child care programs earned early childhood education college credits.
Program planning, coordination and evaluation-annual program plan was updated, an annual program evaluation report was developed, a request for proposal process was completed, support was provided to the local interagency coordinating council, and six programs were monitored for program compliance.
Youth activities-ccpfc received a $1,237 grant from the community foundation of the dan river region to support youth education programs/activities. Ccpfc used the grant funding to support a learning opportunity for the Caswell County homeschoolers and to add educational learning kits to the ccpfc resource lending library. Ten Children and four coaches participated in educational learning activities, including a coaches training for parents and two fairs and one tournament for Children. Children increased their knowledge of steam and developed team building skills. Ccpfc was able to address an identified need in the community by adding eight school age educational learning kits to the resource lending library.