SMART START OF PENDER COUNTY
PO Box 429, Burgaw, NC 28425 www.pender4kids.com

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Organizations Filed Purposes: The organizations primary exempt purpose and mission is to support services that provide opportunities for every child to grow into his or her potential as a person.

CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL (3104):Child Care Resource and Referral (CCR&R) may employ up to 3.5 FTE. CCR&R will collaborate with the Region 4 lead agency to offer consumer education to provide information to help parents and caregivers make informed choices about child care. CCR&R will serve as a resource center for caregivers of children 0-5, early childhood educators and community members, and maintains a resource library where members and young children have access to educational materials, including literacy development information and materials. This activity may provide programmatic oversight of Quality and Professional Development activities, facilitate communication among those who provide TA to child care facilities, coordinate and/or provide trainings for early childhood educators, and assist with coordinating trainings for parents. Classroom management tools and refreshments may be provided at workshops and events. CCR&R may host an annual" child care provider" recognition event and an annual child care professional conference. CCR&R and resource library services are typically available Monday-Thursday, 8:00 AM. to 5:00 PM., Fridays, 8:00 AM to 1:00 PM, the first Saturday of each month from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., and other times, based on community needs.

QUALITY MATTERS (3125):Quality Matters will employ up to 2 FTE Quality Staff to provide technical assistance (TA) to licensed child care facilities to create Learning Environment Plans (LEP) to provide a framework for increasing or maintaining program quality for grant and incentive approved awardees. The quality improvement grant focused LEP, for legally operating facilities up to 3 stars, will include plans for program improvements including: materials, teacher-child interactions, classroom arrangement, and training needs. The Quality Improvement grant will provide up to $2000 per child care home and $4000 per child care center. The incentive focused LEP, for 4 and 5 star facilities, will include plans to help increase low scores on the Environment Ratings Scales and maintain high scores. This LEP will focus on short-term goals in five categories: teacher training/professional development, classroom environments, curriculum implementation, sanitation/health/safety and pre-emergent literacy. Other incentives and bonuses will be available to all eligible child care sites for quality maintenance, which includes, Smart Start literacy. Based on criteria, facilities will be eligible for funding up to a maximum as follows: $750 for four star homes and $1500 for five star homes; $1500 for four star centers and $2750 for five star centers. Child Care facilities participating in Quality Maintenance may be eligible for an increase in incentives and bonuses for meeting additional specific literacy goals as outlined in the LEP. Quality Maintenance grants may not exceed $2,000 for homes and $5,000 for centers. Early Educators working in child care facilities may apply for professional development awards related to for credit courses. Individual professional development awards will not exceed 600.00 per semester. The Quality Staff may develop and provide TA for non-grantees upon request. Refreshments may be served at information and trainings sessions.

Program Evaluation and Coordination (5603):Program Evaluation/Coordination (PE/C) may employ up to one full-time Program Evaluation/Coordination staff person to provide Evaluation/Coordination. Up to two additional staff persons may cost allocate time to this activity. The program will offer technical assistance (TA) to all Service Providers. Individualized meetings and/or training sessions and TA may be held with all service providers to orient them to Program Evaluation/Coordination and to provide an opportunity to assist with the development of outcome strategies. TA will be provided on-site or telephonically to ensure the quality of service provision, to encourage program development, and to assist in the delivery of services. PE/C will offer on-going TA and conduct an on-going evaluation with all service providers to include reviewing and measuring activity outputs and outcomes and reporting efficiency and effectiveness of each program on a quarterly basis. PE/C will monitor each activity to assess compliance with the funded activity description at a frequency consistent with the Monitoring Policies and Procedures and PE/C will provide bi-annual reports to the partnership board as well as the Finance/Grant Review Committee. Program Evaluation/Coordination may host an annual community planning event to assess community needs, and may serve refreshments at sanctioned events.

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