Ready for School. Ready for Life.

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Ready for School. Ready for Life.
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Our Focus

• Quality Child Care
• Family Support
• Developmental Screenings
• Community Awareness
• School Partnerships
• Community Leadership

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Enhancing Quality Child Care
160 increase with Seal of Quality Child Care
(QRIS) QRIS providers serve 1,200 children
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Enhancing Quality Child Care
40 curriculum resource boxes Ongoing staff
training series

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Developmental Screenings
___3 years -uses four- to five-word
sentences ___2 years - points to objects
named ___18 months -plays pretend ("talks" on
toy phone)

• 270 children screened
• 54 (20) referred to services
• Partnering with pediatricians and child care
  centers

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Family Support
Parenting skills, resources, and support to 100
families
Latino Moms Group
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Measuring School Readiness
Charlottesville and Albemarle schools
partnership to analyze data Comparison of
early learning experiences and PALS (language
and literacy) assessments
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Transition to Kindergarten

• Pilot programs with
• elementary schools
• Smart Beginnings
• Kiosks with parent
• information

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Leadership Council 27 business, government and
community leaders

• Bob Pianta, Chair
• Dean, UVA Curry School of Education
• Measuring Local School Readiness
• Mike Chinn, SNL Financial
• Increasing Community Awareness
• Suzanne Morse, Pew Partnership for Civic Change
• Enhancing Quality Child Care
• Eric Johnson, Bank of America

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Business Involvement

• 15 Employers
• Bank of America
• CB Richard Ellis
• Charlottesville Regional Chamber
• of Commerce
• City of Charlottesville
• County of Albemarle
• LexisNexis
• Piedmont Virginia Community
• College
• Region Ten CSB
• SNL Financial
• State Farm Insurance
• The Daily Progress
• United Way
• Virginia National Bank
• Volvo of Charlottesville
• Williams Mullen

Employee Perspectives Child
Care and Workforce Impact SURVEY State
Farm supports the Charlottesville/Albemarle Smart
Beginnings initiative to increase school
readiness and the quality of early learning and
education in our community. To help improve the
quality of child care and education in our
community, please share your comments with us. We
welcome all responses whether or not youre a
grandparent, parent or caregiver. Early
Learning/Child Care 1. To what degree do you
feel preschool and early education is important
to the future development of children? ___ Very
Important ___ Somewhat Important ___ Not
Important 2. If you have children 0-5, what
type/s of child care do you use during work?
___Family member ____Child care center
____Babysitter___(someones home)___ (in my home)
___Public preschool (Head Start, Charlottesville
City Preschools or Albemarle Bright Stars) 3.
Do you use an after school program? ______ Yes
_____ No 4. How satisfied are you with the
child care option(s) available? __Very satisfied
___Somewhat satisfied ___Very dissatisfied 5.
Did you have any problems finding child care?
__Very easy ___Easy ____Some problems ____Very
difficult 6. If yes, what is the major problem
you encountered? ___Cost ___No
openings___Limited hours ___Location
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Enhance Quality Child Care
Child care tours Quality enhancement grants
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Increase Community Awareness
Media TV, radio, print Chamber of Commerce
luncheon Women United in Philanthropy panel

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Sustainability

• Setting community priorities
• Identifying and committing
• resources
• Enhancing United Way
• funding

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• Ready for School.
• Ready for Life.