| FGV Smart Start works with many
different local agencies who provide services to children and families and works to
identify needed programs and services as well as resources to meet those needs. Often,
programs exist but are not being utilized. Sometimes duplication of services are noted.
The Partnership was formed to eliminate those duplications and fill the voids in the
service delivery system.
High quality childcare continues to
positively predict children's performance well into their school
careers. That is why FGV Smart Start spends
70% of its funds to improve affordable, accessible, high quality child
care and other child care related activities.
Child
Care Subsidy: Provides funds for those families needing
assistance with child care. Quality
Enhancement Grants: Supplies grants for child providers to
enhance the quality of their facilities Wages:
Grants supplements to teachers, directors, and family child care
providers in licensed centers and homes. Child
Care Resource & Referral: Offers resources and training
to child care providers, parents, and the community in the area of
child development and child care issues. Child
Care Quality Maintenance Program: Assists with the costs of
managing a four or five star licensed child care program. Professional
Development Program: Provides assistance to child care
providers in their pursuit of returning to school and enrolling in
Early Childhood Education (ECE) classes. 
FGV
Smart Start has opened at satellite office at the Oxford Housing
Authority. Pictured above are staff and children at the Open
House. |
