As the convener and facilitator of Durham’s early childhood system, Durham’s Partnership for Children invests in and works alongside high-quality early childhood programs offered through our partnering organizations that receive Smart Start grants. Below, you can explore a list of our current programs and services provided by partner organizations to children and families across Durham.
Provider: Early Years
Website: earlyyearsnc.org
The Child Care Education & Referral Program assists families in understanding child care regulations, helps families identify high quality child care, supports families in their child care search process through a continuum of services that can include accompanying them to visit child care facilities, and provides Spanish/English bilingual assistance to help families access care and related resources. Referrals include only programs with 3-, 4-, or 5-star ratings, national accreditation, or licensed programs on contract for technical assistance to improve quality and increase star-licensure levels.
Provider: Early Years
Website: earlyyearsnc.org
Rebuilding Capacity for Quality (RCQ) is available to 3, 4 or 5 star child care programs interested in making classroom and program improvements through coaching for teachers and center administrators. Participating programs will be able to select needed support from a menu of tiered areas related to licensing, administration, instructional supports, and high quality accreditation standards. Available in Durham, Orange and Wake counties.
Provider: Early Years
Website: earlyyearsnc.org
The Strengthening Learning in Family Child Care project serves licensed family child care homes in Durham County. Participating Family Child Care programs will be able to select needed support from a menu of tiered areas related to licensing, business practices, instructional supports, and improving health and wellness including outdoor learning environments.
Provider: Early Years
Website: earlyyearsnc.org
Shaping Healthy Lives (SHL) serves 4 or 5 star child care programs in Durham County. This project aims to reduce childhood obesity and increase physical activity in children ages birth-5 years in early childhood education programs in Durham.
Partner: Book Harvest
Website: bookharvest.org
Book Babies is an innovative combination of books and literacy-coaching home visits that empowers families to support children’s school readiness, academic success, and a lifetime of literacy. Book Babies targets Medicaid eligible Durham County families with newborns and continues services until the child turns 5 years old. Book Babies provides Pre-K/K Transition coaching to eligible children, parents, and families to facilitate success in school by providing support and education to parents to help navigate through the critical transition from Pre-K to formal education.
Provider: Early Years
Website: earlyyearsnc.org
The scholarship program supports working parents by increasing the affordability and accessibility of quality child care and improves school readiness by promoting quality in the Durham early care and education system.
Provider: Early Years
Website: earlyyearsnc.org
The Child Care WAGE$® Program provides education-based salary supplements to low-paid teachers, directors and family child care providers working with children between the ages of birth to 5 in participating counties.
Provider: Exchange Family Center
Website: exchangefamilycenter.org
EChO provides consultation, support and referral services to Durham child care providers and families when a child’s behavior presents a challenge. This activity increases the capacity for childcare providers to foster social-emotional development and address children’s mental health issues.
Provider: Center for Child & Family Health
Website: ccfhnc.org
Healthy Families Durham (HFD) offers early childhood intervention services through an intensive home-visiting program for first-time parents. The program is designed to improve parent-child interaction and child social-emotional well-being, promote parenting skills, enhance child health and development, increase school readiness, support family self-sufficiency, and reduce risk for child maltreatment.
Healthy Families Durham includes additional services:
Attachment & Biobehavioral Catch-Up: Attachment & Biobehavioral Catch-Up (ABC) Infant is a strengths-based parent/child home visiting model for families with children ages 6 months to 24 months. ABC Infant enhances the attachment security between a child and their caregiver, fosters strong, healthy relationships between parents and children, and promotes the child’s development.
Child Parent Psychotherapy: CPP is therapy for young children from birth through age 5 and their caregivers. It aims to help children who have experienced stressful events that impact negatively their mental health, attachment and behavior. CPP helps caregiver and their children to understand each other, talk and play about difficult experiences, respond appropriately to strong feelings and behaviors, while changing the negative perception that children and caregivers have of themselves and each other. CPP creates a sense of hope in the family where the child feels protected and safe.
Provider: Welcome Baby (Durham County Cooperative Extension)
Website: welcomebaby.org
Welcome Baby, part of the Durham County Cooperative Extension, provides unwavering support to local families with children. They offer a comprehensive range of resources and programs that are designed to strengthen families and promote healthy child development. Services include positive parenting workshops, breastfeeding support, car seat safety, literacy-based workshops and a free clothing program that provides clothing up to size 5/6.
The Welcome Baby program offers emotional and practical support, child development education, and prevention services designed to strengthen families and caregivers with young children ages 0 to 5. Programs include: The Incredible Years, Motheread, and Triple P.
