Happy Holidays from SBDPOur quarterly newsletter, Success for All Teachers, Students and Families, is now available. Click on the link below or call 797-8887 to be added to our mailing list. Please keep in touch! December 2019 Newsletter
Free Car and Safety Seat Program Re-Established!
Excerpt from the November 2018 issue of Smart Beginnings DP Newsletter
Success For All!Are you looking for high quality childcare?When choosing childcare, it's important to know what quality is and where to find it. Click here to read our brochure with tips on what high quality childcare is and resources you can use to help find it. |
RECENT NEWSSmart Beginnings DP receives new fundingThursday, January 31, 2019
Smart Beginnings Danville Pittsylvania (SBDP), a regional school readiness coalition, will receive a $7,000 grant from the Virginia Early Childhood Foundation (VECF) to develop a customized “data capacity action plan” and expand its school readiness data dashboard. Would you like to honor a loved one or celebrate a special milestone?Monday, July 3, 2017
Support Smart Beginnings and the Imagination Library by making a tax-deductible contribution in honor of or in memorial of a friend, colleague or loved one. Simply complete the memorial-honorarium form and return by mail. Your support ensures that individuals working with young children have the support and training the need to meet the needs of young children. It also ensures that we can provide vulnerable children with age appropriate, high quality books each month by mail. Congratulations!Saturday, July 1, 2017
This past year, 11 childcare centers and family day homes completed the VA Infant and Toddler Specialist Network training. |
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READY FOR SCHOOLVirginia's Getting Ready Model
Ready Families. Able to support and provide for healthy children. Ready Communities. Able to support families as child's first teacher. Ready Services. Able to provide high quality care to all young children. Ready Schools. Able to accept "ready" children and provide seamless transitions. Ready Children. Age appropriate in all six developmental domains: physical developmental and health; social and emotional development; approaches to learning; language and literacy development; cognition and general knowledge and fine arts. |
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The Danville Life Saving Crew has recently partnered with the Virginia Department of Health and Community Healthcare Workers to not only implement the program, but also to complete proper car and safety seat installation training in hopes of preventing our community’s youngest citizens from injury or death in the event of a motor vehicle accident. This resource has been underutilized in our area for a long period of time. Through the work of the Community Liaison, Heather Spencer, and Johnny Mills with the Danville Life Saving Crew, the program now has a permanent home in Danville. With the help of this program and its trained workers, parents will be more aware and better empowered when it comes to their children’s safety while on the road. They will not only be taught proper safety seat installation, but important skills that will grow with the child, such as how to make adjustments to fit and position.
