Enhanced Early Education
The Enhanced Early Education strategy seeks to enhance education services offered by early childhood classrooms.
Evidence Based
The Enhanced Early Education strategy seeks to enhance education services offered by early childhood classrooms.
Evidence Based
Through supplemental materials and books distribution to classrooms, this program provides important support to students and their families, that may not otherwise be provided by their school district or childcare provider.
This map only shows programs funded by South Carolina First Steps. For more information about services available in your area, contact your local First Steps partnership.
School districts and child care providers with children age 3-5.
Opportunities for early childhood teachers, paraprofessionals, and program directors
Families with preschool-aged children
Parent educators meet with classroom teachers bi-monthly to discuss and distribute supplemental materials that align with classroom learning.
A focus on language and literacy development
Learning experiences for early childhood professionals
Early Care & Education
Quality EnhancementIntensive support to child care centers, Head Start and preschool classrooms to improve quality
Early Care & Education
Quality CountsQuality Counts is a community-based child care quality improvement strategy, designed to build and sustain high quality in early care and education programs.
Early Care & Education
Child Care ScholarshipsEligible children receive tuition-free enrollment at quality child care centers
Early Care & Education
Child CareProviding local families with access to high-quality early care and education.
Early Care & Education
Early Head StartNationally, Early Head Start programs serve over 160,000 children and pregnant women annually.
Early Care & Education
Training and Professional DevelopmentCertified and registered training hours for the early childhood workforce
Early Care & Education
First Steps 4KFirst Steps 4K offers free, full-day four-year-old kindergarten to qualifying children in South Carolina. We partner with more than 270 licensed child care centers and private schools across the state, making it easy for families to find a high-quality program that meets their needs.
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