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Why
Develop the Community Approach?
The
goal of the community approach is to achieve emotional,
educational, societal, and medical well-being of
all children. This approach blends funding of public
and private resources to distribute learning programs
and resources community-wide more efficiently, and offers
many benefits to children, families, schools, and communities.
The
community approach allows families options in providing
quality care and education to all four-year-olds, regardless
of ability or family income. The community approach
preserves the health of the child care system in the
community while generating additional state funds for
the community to educate four-year-olds.
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Districts
Recommended for Minigrant Site Visits
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communities that have completed three years of planning
and implementation minigrants and have demonstrated
exemplary outcomes on behalf of young children with
disabilities and their families have been identified
as Demonstration Projects and receive additional
funding for expansion and dissemination efforts.
For a listing of nine exemplary programs click
here. |
Benefits
to Children and Families;
Schools; Child Care and Head Start
Click
here to view benefits
The
Forces for Four-Year-Old Committee and Initiative also
have many resources to help districts explore or implement
community approaches. Go to Forces
for Four
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