About Us
Our impact on the community is to prepare our preschoolers to reach first grade
healthy and ready to succeed, Georgetown County First Steps Partnership
provides both direct services about resources to children, families, and
daycare centers. Our direct services include parent education through our
Parents as Teachers program and through monthly workshops. In these sessions,
parents learn about child development and how to foster growth and learning. In
addition they receive information about community services and resources and
are empowered to give their children the best possible start in life.
Along with these direct services, we also provide resources to enhance child
development and literacy as well as to prevent reading difficulties. We work
directly with children, work through teachers, or even work with parents in
their homes. Our Facility Quality Enhancement program makes available to
childcare providers training, technical assistance, developmentally appropriate
child educational materials, as well as healthcare education and screening. The
preschool programs at four Georgetown County childcare centers are being
transformed with high quality, research-based language and cognitive
instructions through our Centers of Excellence program, which also features a
component to help ensure the children's successful transition to kindergarten.
In addition to the
direct benefit to our community from the resources and services Georgetown
County First Steps delivers, we also provide another benefit that is equally
important, through perhaps not as measurable. Our experienced staff are
passionate about raising the quality of early childhood care and education.
That passion, and the dedication that results are contagious and have helped us
to build strong partnerships that support our efforts. The child care providers
participating in our programs, the families of our students, the public
schools, the Library, DSS, and other government entities, and private support
is evidence of the impact that First Steps has in coalescing our community
around the importance of improving outcomes for our young children.
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