SC First Steps - Pickens County First Steps

Family strengthening-first Steps works To increase parents' ability To stimulate their child's intellectual, social and physicial development through evidence-based home visitation and parenting programs such as parents as teachers.

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 summer before School entry. Teachers complete six visits with each family,centered upon classroom and content expectations.

Healthy start-first Steps recognizes the importance of a health start in maximizing both School Readiness and the long-term well being of the state's children. The initiative partners wiht families, the medical community and other stakeholders To leverage resources for- and increase awareness of- the healthcare, nutrition and early developmental needs of the state's young children.

Indirect program expenses