SC First Steps - Sumter County First Steps

Child care quality-first Steps assists child care providers To improve program quality by funding targeted upgrades To meet dss licensing or abc- enhanced requirements, and To further enhance learning environments for young children.

Healthy start-first Steps recognizes the importance of a healthy start in maximizing both School readiness and the long-term well being of the state's children. The initiative partners with families, the medical community and other stakeholders To leverage resrources for- and increase awareness of- the healthcare, nutrition and early developmental needs of the state's young children. They accomplish these goals through the early identification and referral program.

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

Indirect program expenses