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The Early Years Count!

An education initiative

of the Community Foundation

of St. Joseph County

 

Early Years Count!, coordinated by The Family Connection since 2001, focuses like a laser on raising quality in Head Start, early childhood centers, preschools, registered ministries,  and family home providers.

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We’re thrilled to announce that we’ve been selected as a proud recipient of an Early Years Initiative grant from Early Learning Indiana! We’re stepping up our efforts to provide crucial support for infants and toddlers in HighScope classrooms in St. Joseph County. This grant empowers us to offer Infant Toddler HighScope training and curriculum support to Spanish speaking childcare providers, ensuring a brighter future for our little ones. Stay tuned for updates! 

Upcoming Training

Fall Training Calendar coming soon....

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Free Little Library

Have you visited Ann and Sue's Little library yet?  It is tucked away just outside of the Notre Dame campus, at Kelly Park.  Help us keep it stocked with books!  We are collecting book donations, especially looking for children's books.  Thank you.

 

We stand in solidarity against injustice, racism, and hate. Our team shares in the collective outrage and heartbreak of our nation. We realize we have much to learn and unlearn. We are reading, watching, and listening.  We are looking at ourselves as individuals and as an organization. We are learning to sit with discomfort.  We are grateful for the grace offered by Maya Angelou who says, ‘Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.’  We are committed to doing better by ‘using our mouths to speak out against injustice, our noses to sniff out implicit bias, our eyes to identify privilege, our ears to listen to the people of color experience, our hearts to cultivate empathy for the oppressed, and our hands to take actions and make change.’ (@ohhappydani)

                      

                           - The Family Connection Team

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FREE BOOKS
in the mail every month for children
birth to five 
in St. Joseph County!!!
Thanks to the Community Foundation and a host of dedicated funders.
Information and registration here.

A growing collection of useful links to state and local resources and like-minded national organizations.

 

Click here

We are always on the lookout for qualified candidates with early childhood and/or elementary school expertise.

 

Click here

Coming events and 

other things we're

up to month-by-month.

 

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© 2015 by The Family Connection of St. Joseph County.

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​Find us: 

132 N. Lafayette Blvd.

South Bend, IN 46601

​​Call us:

(574) 237–9740

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