SC First Steps - Union County First Steps

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

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.

Indirect program expenses

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