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Meals available for ALL children 18 and under. JCPS Nutrition Services began distributing free breakfast and lunch yesterday to ALL children 18 and under as well as all JCPS students…

Community Coordinated Child Care (4-C), in partnership with Family & Children’s Place, has indefinitely suspended all Head Start and Early Head Start programming in an effort to prevent the spread…

In an effort to do our part to reduce the potential spread of the COVID-19 virus and follow the recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the…

The 2020 Census begins in March. Research shows that children under the age of 5 are the most under-counted of any age group. The 2020 Census helps to determine critical…

I have a brother who was born on February 29 and we somehow manage to find a way to treat him like however many 29ths he’s had in his life,…

I had the opportunity to read the book, The Help, recently. January is when the country celebrates the birth of Dr Martin Luther King, JR, so it seems fitting to…

Happy New Year to everyone. In many ways, a new year brings hope for brighter days. For some, it’s the beginning of the end. How, you may ask? Gone are…

Cupcakes by Rusty (age 6) “You put em in the oven and then you cook em and get em out. You put about 4 scoops of sugar in em. And…

I was taken with a comment made during a reception we had for our Spanish speaking child care providers the other night. Edouardo, a very eloquent gentleman who used to…

“Study Finds That Effects of Low-Quality Child Care Last Into Adolescence” “Good Child Care Has Benefits That Last Into High School-But Free Play Is Important” These headlines are both reporting…