Stanly County Partnership For Children

Stanly County Partnership For Children, doing business as Smart Start, is a non-profit organization registered to receive federal grant awards. Through subawards, Stanly County Partnership For Children provides high quality pre-kindergarten and preschool services to eligible four-year-old children in North Carolina.

The federal subawards to Stanly County Partnership For Children have been made under North Carolina's Pre-Kindergarten Program, administered by the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services. The purpose of the subawards is specifically to provide high quality pre-kindergarten and preschool services to enhance school readiness and yield better learning and development outcomes in kindergarten and beyond for eligible four-year-old children. Additional services funded in recent subawards include supplemental summer learning programs to mitigate potential learning loss due to COVID-19, teacher training through the Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling (LETRS) program, and funding to stabilize program operations and administration. Through these federal grant subawards from the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Stanly County Partnership For Children delivers pre-kindergarten and preschool instruction and services to four-year-olds in its service area.