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A Child Start Board of Directors Member and Secretary has been awarded the “I Love My Librarian” award sponsored by the American Library Association.  Mychal Threets was chosen as one of 10 winners nationwide from a pool of over 1,400 librarians.  Today at the Solano County Board of Supervisors meeting, Mychal was acknowledged by Supervisors and the Director of Library Services for receiving the award and for garnering national attention about the value of public libraries to local communities.

Congratulations Mychal!  You truly deserve it!

To see Mychal’s recognition and his own speech, please click on the link below and fast forward to the 19:00-minute mark.

https://solano.granicus.com/player/clip/2411?view_id=8&redirect=true&h=b171ffb5d181f2bc64cd3610be7dd963

The Solano County Board of Supervisors adopted a resolution today declaring the former Beverly Hills Elementary School site located at 1450 Coronel Ave, Vallejo, California as surplus property and transferring the property to Child Start, Inc. subject to deed restrictions requiring Child Start to use the property as an early learning center for at least 25 years.  Further, the Board approved the Funding and Construction Agreement with Child Start to renovate the existing facility for use as an early learning center and authorized the County Administrator to execute the Funding and Construction Agreement and any other documents necessary to complete the restricted deed transfer of title to Child Start, Inc.

Comments about the Early Learning Center and the County’s relationship with Child Start can been seen at the link below at about the 32:35 minute mark for Supervisor Hannigan and at about the 35:00 minute mark for Supervisor Brown.

https://solano.granicus.com/player/clip/2411?view_id=8&redirect=true&h=b171ffb5d181f2bc64cd3610be7dd963

Child Start in the Limelight!

Congratulations to Andrea Calderon, who represented Child Start at the Solano County Board of Supervisor’s meeting on Tuesday, January 9^th.  Andrea is the Family Services Manager for Child Start and the Positive Parenting Awareness Month lead for Head Start programs throughout Napa and Solano Counties. In her presentation, she shared how implementing the Triple P program through workshops, group meetings and one-on-one sessions virtually or in-person, have created positive impacts on families throughout the entire county.  Triple P offers a solution for every parent whether they have a young child, a teen, a child with a disability or other needs.  Most importantly, Triple P, as a research-based curriculum, has demonstrated that, when implementing Triple P across a county-wide system like we have in Solano County, can lead to:

• Fewer hospitalizations from child abuse injuries (13% lower)
• Fewer out-of-home placements (21% lower), and
• Slowed growth of confirmed child abuse cases (31% lower)

Thank you, Andrea, for representing Child Start so well!  To cheer her on, other members of the Child Start team were there, including Family Services Specialist, Zeba Manzoor.

If you would like to see Andrea’s speech, click on the link below and fast forward to the 12:00 minute mark.

https://solano.granicus.com/player/clip/2411?view_id=8&redirect=true&h=b171ffb5d181f2bc64cd3610be7dd963

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Over 50 California Organizations Call for State Funding for Head Start

Happy 25th Birthday Early Head Start!

Early Head Start (EHS) is celebrating its 25^th year working with infants, toddlers, and families. Watch this heartwarming video to learn about the impact EHS programs have had on our communities. Through the years, EHS programs have served 3 million children—and counting! #EHS25

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Child Start, Inc. would like to extend the warmest ‘Thank You’, to The Napa Valley Vintners for their generous support of Child Start’s mission and those of so many of our partner community agencies.  Their generosity makes it possible to provide resources that best serve those in our community. We are proud to be able to provide our future generations with a Head Start!

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To celebrate Head Start Awareness Month this October, NHSA is catching up with Head Start alumni who are doing amazing work in their fields.

One day this past summer, Tyrone Olverson stumbled upon NHSA’s office. He was in the neighborhood attending a meeting for school superintendents, and he noticed the “National Head Start Association” sign on our building. Being a Head Start alumnus himself — and a curious and ever-eager learner — he came inside to share his story and hear about ours.

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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — When federal officials inspected this city’s Head Start program five years ago, they found moldy classrooms, exposed wires, leaking sewage, a sagging roof and trash-strewn playgrounds littered with safety hazards. A teacher had jerked a student so hard she dislocated the girl’s shoulder.

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One of the United States’ most successful anti-poverty measures starts very early in life: Head Start, a preschool program for disadvantaged kids, increased children’s education and significantly reduced the likelihood of adult poverty, according to a University of Michigan study.

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The U.S. Senate passed its Fiscal Year 2019 funding package for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and related agencies. The bill includes a $250 million increase for Head Start in order to meet the rising costs of high-quality services for our nation’s most vulnerable children and their families.

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The Napa Valley Vintners (NVV) trade association announced $2.5 million in grant funding for children’s education in Napa County, including $200,000 for Child Start. Helping children enter kindergarten ready to learn, supporting students in achieving academic goals and assisting young people in developing healthy behaviors are just a few of the ways in which this round of donations from the NVV will help Napa County youth thrive in school and in life.

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