SC First Steps - Clarendon County First Steps

Parenting support: parents as teachers-a parent educator visits your home and provides guidance and resources To enable you To support your child's development and School Readiness. Pat aims To increase your knowledge of early childhood development and improve parenting practices, provide early detection of developmental delays and health issues, prevent child abuse and neglect, and increase children's School Readiness and School success. Strengthening families program-an internationally recognized parenting and family strengthening program that focus on parenting skills, children's social skills and family life skills training. This 14-session program is specifically designed for high-risk and general population families.

School transition developed by South Carolina First Steps - and identified as a promising state practice by the national governor's association in 2005 - countdown To kindergarten is a home visitation program pairing the families of high- risk rising kindergartners with their future teachers during the sumer before School entry. Teachers complete six visits with each family, centered upon classroom and content expectations.

Core functions

Child care: child care quality-first Steps assists child care providers through training programs ceritifed through sc endeavors and include topics in the areas of nutrition, health and safety, curriculum, child guidance, professional development and program administration. Additionally, the child care quality enhancement program aims To produce measureable improvements in the quality of care provided To young children. Also, First Steps provides scholarships To high quality child care programs for eligible families so their families can return To work or School.