[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image img_size=”overlap-medium” alignment=”center” image=”6724″ animation=”fadeInUp”][wyde_heading subheading_tag=”h3″ style=”2″ title=”Statement from Prichard Committee: Pension Stress Must Not Harm Student Success” subheading=”Pension Solution Needed for Kentucky Colleges” animation=”slideInLeft”][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text animation=”fadeInLeft”]July 15, 2019<\/b><\/p>\n
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The initiative\u2019s central office is in Hazard, where an aggressive effort to attract participants is being spearheaded by June Widman, executive director of the Eastern Kentucky Child Care Coalition, and Kristin Walker Collins, associate executive director of the Foundation for Appalachian Kentucky. These organizations are working in partnership with Community Early Childhood Councils, Partners for Education Promise Neighborhood Projects, Save the Children, Early Head Start and Head Start, HANDS, and New Beginnings Child Care Center.<\/p>\n Focused mainly on developing groups of providers, the team is working on an ambitious program that includes building family and community awareness of early childhood options, training for participating family child care providers and developing relationships with community partners. While quality child care is at the center of the work, the project also addresses the business aspects of the service: business development, entrepreneurship, building personal credit, home improvement and access to capital.<\/p>\n \u201cWe see this project as an opportunity to support and expand family child care to meet the needs of families and communities and to create a viable business in our region,\u201d Widman said.<\/p>\n \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 ###<\/span><\/p>\n The Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence <\/b>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":" [vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image img_size=”overlap-medium” alignment=”center” image=”6724″ animation=”fadeInUp”][wyde_heading subheading_tag=”h3″ style=”2″ title=”Statement from Prichard Committee: Pension Stress Must Not Harm Student Success” subheading=”Pension Solution Needed for Kentucky Colleges” animation=”slideInLeft”][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text animation=”fadeInLeft”]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=”fadeInRight”]Hazard, 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-4847","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\/4847","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=4847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prichard-backup.com\/July\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5862,"href":"https:\/\/prichard-backup.com\/July\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4847\/revisions\/5862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prichard-backup.com\/July\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prichard-backup.com\/July\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prichard-backup.com\/July\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/b>For more information, contact:
\n<\/span><\/i>Brigitte Blom Ramsey, Executive Director
\n<\/b>(office) 859-233-9849
\n<\/span>(cell) 859-322-8999<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text animation=”fadeInRight”]Hazard, 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 Eastern 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