{"id":4845,"date":"2019-07-15T17:48:26","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T17:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prichard-backup.com\/July\/2019\/07\/15\/press-release-pilot-child-care-program-launched-in-covington\/"},"modified":"2022-09-27T19:49:13","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T19:49:13","slug":"press-release-pilot-child-care-program-launched-in-covington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prichard-backup.com\/July\/press-release-pilot-child-care-program-launched-in-covington\/","title":{"rendered":"Press Release: Pilot Child Care Program Launched in Covington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image img_size=&#8221;overlap-medium&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; image=&#8221;6724&#8243; animation=&#8221;fadeInUp&#8221;][wyde_heading subheading_tag=&#8221;h3&#8243; style=&#8221;2&#8243; title=&#8221;Statement from Prichard Committee: Pension Stress Must Not Harm Student Success&#8221; subheading=&#8221;Pension Solution Needed for Kentucky Colleges&#8221; animation=&#8221;slideInLeft&#8221;][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text animation=&#8221;fadeInLeft&#8221;]<b>July 15, 2019<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<br \/>\n<\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For more information, contact:<br \/>\n<\/span><\/i><b>Brigitte Blom Ramsey, Executive Director<br \/>\n<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(office) 859-233-9849<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(cell) 859-322-8999<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text animation=&#8221;fadeInRight&#8221;]Covington, KY \u2013 Increasing the availability of quality family child care for infants and toddlers in the state\u2019s underserved areas is the focus of pilot programs now underway in Northern Kentucky. The work is being done by the Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence, in partnership with the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services Division of Child Care.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative\u2019s central office is in Covington, where an aggressive effort to attract participants is being spearheaded by Sandra Woodall, Team lead of Northern Kentucky 4C for Children, Amanda Greenwell, Director of NKY Center United Greater Way of Cincinnati, Child Care Aware, and Children\u2019s Inc. These organizations are working in partnership with Northern Kentucky University, SHP Leading Design, the Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce, and the Community Child Care Councils.<\/p>\n<p>Focused mainly on developing groups of providers, the team is working on an ambitious program that includes increasing workforce development and building family and community awareness of early childhood options. Training for participating family child care providers and developing relationships with community partners is a focal point that cannot be left out as it is an emergent aspect of the great work that is being done.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe aim to increase our regional capacity to recruit and support high quality early education by developing and testing innovative models to expand and sustain regulated family child care for infants and toddlers in underserved areas through collaboration with community partners working together,\u201d Woodall explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cQuality early learning, when the brain is developing most rapidly, is the most important precursor to success in school and life,\u201d said Brigitte Blom Ramsey, executive director of the Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence. \u201cWe look forward to learning from the implementation of these pilots as we seek to contribute to national best practices to expand access to quality, home-based child care for more youngsters and their families.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">###<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>The Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is an independent, nonpartisan, citizen-led organization working to improve education in Kentucky \u2013 early childhood through postsecondary.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image img_size=&#8221;overlap-medium&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; image=&#8221;6724&#8243; animation=&#8221;fadeInUp&#8221;][wyde_heading subheading_tag=&#8221;h3&#8243; style=&#8221;2&#8243; title=&#8221;Statement from Prichard Committee: Pension Stress Must Not Harm Student Success&#8221; subheading=&#8221;Pension Solution Needed for Kentucky Colleges&#8221; animation=&#8221;slideInLeft&#8221;][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text animation=&#8221;fadeInLeft&#8221;]July 15, 2019 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For more information, contact: Brigitte Blom Ramsey, Executive Director (office) 859-233-9849 (cell) 859-322-8999[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text animation=&#8221;fadeInRight&#8221;]Covington, KY \u2013 Increasing the availability of quality family child care<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"passster_activate_protection":false,"passster_protect_child_pages":"","passster_protection_type":"password","passster_password":"","passster_activate_overwrite_defaults":"","passster_headline":"","passster_instruction":"","passster_placeholder":"","passster_button":"","passster_id":"","passster_activate_misc_settings":"","passster_redirect_url":"","passster_hide":"no","passster_area_shortcode":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-press-release"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prichard-backup.com\/July\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prichard-backup.com\/July\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prichard-backup.com\/July\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prichard-backup.com\/July\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prichard-backup.com\/July\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prichard-backup.com\/July\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5860,"href":"https:\/\/prichard-backup.com\/July\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4845\/revisions\/5860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prichard-backup.com\/July\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prichard-backup.com\/July\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prichard-backup.com\/July\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}