Champion for Children 2013 Award Nominations NOW BEING ACCEPTED!

Do you know someone in Rockingham County who is a CHAMPION FOR CHILDREN?

In an effort to recognize the many contributions made to the early childhood education field countywide, the Board of Directors of the Rockingham County Partnership for Children has established a special Champion for Children award to be given in April 2012.  The Champion for Children award will recognize an individual, nominated by the community, who has made significant contributions of time, talent and/or financial resources to the early childhood community in Rockingham County. 

Past recipients include Trish Gwyn, Lisa Fargis, Tina Hensley, Dr. Vickie Brinkley, Bennie Totten and Fran Daniel.

The Rockingham County Partnership for Children (RCPC) is a non-profit organization that administers Smart Start, North Carolina Pre-kindergarten and other private and public funds for the use of enhancing services for children birth through five years of age and their families. Our mission is helping all children enter school healthy and ready to succeed.  RCPC works towards this mission by seeking out agencies, organizations and individuals that work with young children and their families and looking for opportunities to collaborate and enhance or create needed services.

The Champion for Children award seeks to honor an individual who has consistently enabled our mission through their commitment to quality early childhood services.  Completed nomination forms must be postmarked by March 18, 2013 to receive consideration for this year’s award.

Click here to access the nomination form. 

Do you have a little one who will be 5 by August 31, 2013? It's almost KINDERGARTEN registration time!

Check out the video from Take A Big Step.....

http://www.rceno.com/RCENO/news/local-news/take-a-big-step-project-to-focus-on-early-childhood-literacy/

READING ROCKSTARS-Parent Conference, 1/26

Check out this great opportunity!  Click here to learn more about our Reading Rockstars Parent Conference on January 26, 2013.

RCPC Receives Nurse Family Partnership Planning Grant

The Rockingham County Partnership for Children is pleased to announce it has received a grant to support the planning process for the Nurse Family Partnership Program from the Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

Nurse Family Partnership (NFP), an evidence based maternal child health program, works with first time, at-risk mothers from early in their pregnancy until their child turns two years old.  NFP has successfully helped improve birth outcomes, supported mothers to increase

self-sufficiency and improved literacy and education rates in communities across the country.  In Rockingham County, the program will help meet a critical need currently not being met by existing programs.

“Nurse Family Partnership will dramatically improve the lives of at-risk mothers and their young children in Rockingham County,” says Heather Adams, Executive Director of the Rockingham County Partnership for Children.  “We feel very fortunate to have the support of the Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust as we work to bring this valuable program to the county.”

The Rockingham County Partnership for Children is a public, private nonprofit organization which administers Smart Start funds serving children prenatal to age five and their families in Rockingham County.  The Partnership has a mission of ensuring every child in the county enters school healthy and ready to succeed.

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The Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust was established in 1947 and is now one of the largest private trusts in North Carolina.  Its mission is to improve the quality of life and quality of health for the financially needy of North Carolina.  The Health Care Division promotes wellness

state-wide by investing in prevention and treatment.  The Poor and Needy Division of the Trust responds to basic life needs and invests in solutions to improve the quality of life and health for the financially needy residents of Forsyth County.  Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. serves as sole trustee.

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