South Carolina First Steps To School Readiness Board Of Trustees
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- EIN 57-1087576
- (803) 734-0479
- 636 Rosewood Dr Columbia SC 29201-4683 USA
- http://scfirststeps.org/
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Causes: Education
Mission: Per south carolina code section 59-152-30: "the goals for south carolina first steps to school readiness are to: (1) provide parents with access to the support they might seek and want to strengthen their families and to promote the optimal development of their preschool children; (2) increase comprehensive services so children have reduced risk for major physical, developmental, and learning problems; (3) promote high quality preschool programs that provide a healthy environment that will promote normal growth and development; (4) provide services so all children receive the protection, nutrition, and health care needed to thrive in the early years of life so they arrive at school ready to learn; and (5) mobilize communiites to focus efforts on providing enhanced services to support families and their young children so as to enable every child to reach school healthy and ready to learn. "
Programs: South carolina first steps provides both funding and technical assistance to the state's network of independent, non-profit first steps county partnerships so that services are available to the children who need them. In each of south carolina's 46 counties, first steps provides or expands community early learning services available for young children, their families, and caregivers. These services fall into five important areas:1. Family strengthening2. Health and operations3. Childcare quality4. Early education5. School transition
south carolina first steps works with other agency and community partners to offer babynet, south carolina's early intervention program under part c of the federal individuals with disabilities education act (idea). Babynet provides early intervention services to infants and toddlers (birth-36 months) with identified developmental delays.
south carolina department of education and south carolina first steps administer the 4k program. The 4k program utilizes a public-private service delivery model so that parents may enroll their child in either a public school or an approved private child care center.
the early head start child care partnership is a federally-funded grant for early childhood programs designed to serve low-income infants and toddlers (from birth until the child's third birthday). Participating families will receive high-quality, full-day early care and education services (within contracted preschool settings) and comprehensive, wrap-around programs provided by sc first steps. The following first steps county partnerships are included as service locations within the grant: allendale, anderson, bamberg, berkeley, dillon, georgetown, laurens, lexington, newberry, orangeburg, saluda, and york. First steps will contract with a limited number of child care providers within the defined twelve county service areas.