Overview
HELPING CHILDREN SUCCEED
Community Connections for Children supports families in finding and paying for quality child care and provides resources, training, and on-site technical assistance to help all types of early childhood education providers improve their programs to ensure that every child is successful in school and life.
Each year, Community Connections for Children:
- Serves 2,800 children through the Child Care Works program
- Along with 750 child care programs and approximately 12,000 children through the Keystone STARS program which promotes high quality early childhood education
- Provides over 1,500 professional development workshops, college classes, and conferences for early childhood educators
- Works with 100 home-based child care programs serving over 500 children through the CACFP program which provides nutrition and wellness education and financial support for healthy meals for children who are cared for in home-based programs in 21 counties across PA
- Consults with 250 home-based providers through training and on-site technical assistance to help them become certified by the PA Department of Human Services (DHS) and enroll in Keystone STARS
- And assists over 1,500 families in finding quality child care for their children
