| The local Partnership 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. By blending and leveraging
existing resources and providing funding through Smart Start - the following programs are
made possible to the young children:
Laptops For Learners
Thanks to a $20,000 grant from Bank of
America, parents of young children in Franklin, Granville and Vance
counties will be leaving their children with child care teachers who are
continuing their education through a unique project. The FGV Partnership
for Children was selected to participate in Phase II of the Project
College Opportunity Networks and Technology Access for Child Care
Teachers (Project CONTACT), an early childhood distance learning
initiative. Local child care teachers now have access to 20 laptop
computers (and support) to participate in early childhood education
classes at a distance. Classes are provided through Vance-Granville
Community College.
More At Four
More At Four is
designed to provide high quality educational experiences for
four-year-old children who are at risk of school failure. The More at
Four legislation requires every county that wants to participate to
establish a community committee to make local decisions about the
program, including determining where More at Four children will be
served. The committee is co-chaired by the local school superintendent
and chair of the local Partnership for Children board of directors.
Children may be served in a school setting or by private child care
providers. The public school systems in Vance and Granville counties
began operating More at Four programs during the 2001-2002 school year,
with one class in each county. By the 2003-2004 school year, those
programs had expanded to two classes in each county and a class was
started in Franklin County at Centerville Learning Center, a private
child care provider. The programs in the three counties served a total
of 81 children. FGV Partnership provides funds to supplement the More at
Four dollars allocated to each program.
Dolly Parton's Imagination
Library
Franklin-Granville-Vance Partnership for Children
is implementing Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library to stimulate
increased literacy activities in families in the region. The program
provides a book each month to participating children under the age of
five years. Parents of any
child in the age range may apply. |
