SC First Steps - Laurens County First Steps

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. Nurse family partnership-a registered nurse visits your home To provide parenting, health and child development support beginning during the second trimester of pregnancy and lasting until your child's second birthday. Your family will receive 64 total visits by a registered nurse over a 2 1/2 year period. This program is for first-time, low-income mothers.

Core functions/community partnerships/public awareness

Childcare scholarships-childcare scholarships are available for families that qualify. South Carolina First Steps leverages state, local and private resources To increase the quality of, and number of children participating in, high-quality pre-kindergarden programs in both the public and private sectors. Childcare training-a program that supports child care providers and equips them To advance along the center for child care career development (ccccd) career framework, advance within the abc quality system, improve an approved measure of program quality and/or To provide training on a topic- specific focus based on regional ta coordination meetings.