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.