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Causes: Education, Preschools
Mission: The early learning coalition works to serve children ages birth to kindergarten, and their parents, to provide excellent early care and education opportunities, recognize parents as teachers and meet special needs in order to assure that children are ready for school.
Programs: School readiness - subsidized childcare services include expenses for child care which provides a safe, nurturing, educational environment for at-risk and low-income children and assists parents in gaining financial self sufficiency. This includes non-direct services expense for activities that support direct services, such as enrollment, monitoring, and reimbursement. (4143 unduplicated children served)
voluntary pre-kindergarten includes expenses for administration and education in this legislatively mandated program designed to prepare every four-year-old in florida for kindergarten and build the foundation for their educational success. (2079 unduplicated children served)
quality services includes expenses for activities that improve the quality of care and education provided by contracted child care providers in alachua county and a resource and referral service for all county residents.