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Why pick this one
Wilkes Community Partnership for Children provides free birth-to-five family programs in Wilkes County, including monthly Imagination Library books and Family Foundations support.
Best for
- Wilkes County families with children under age five
- Parents seeking free early-literacy resources
- Families needing parenting, child-development, safety, or nutrition guidance
- Caregivers seeking Play 2 Learn groups for children not enrolled in licensed child care
- Parents looking for local child care providers, NC Pre-K information, or child care assistance
- Child care providers needing training, technical assistance, health consultation, or social-emotional development support
Look elsewhere if
- Families seeking services for children older than five
- Families located outside Wilkes County
- Customers seeking a commercial child care center rather than a community support organization
Specialties
- kindergarten readiness for children birth to age five
- family support and parent education
- early literacy programs
- child care resource and referral
- child health, nutrition, and social-emotional development support
Certifications
- Local Smart Start agency
- NC Partnership for Children support
What makes them different
- Serves children from birth through age five in Wilkes County
- Provides the Dolly Parton Imagination Library at no cost to eligible Wilkes County children under age five
- Offers Family Foundations parent education and family visits from prenatal stages through age five
- Maintains a local directory of licensed child care providers and public-school NC Pre-K locations
- Accepts donated diapers, formula, baby supplies, and gently used books for community programs
Distilled from this business's own website.
Contact & Location
- Address
- 668 Withrow Rd, Forest City, NC 28043-9695
- Website
- https://www.wilkeschildren.org
- communityoutreach@wilkeschildren.org
Services
- free family programs
- Family Foundations home visits
- Dolly Parton Imagination Library enrollment
- Circle of Parents support groups
- Play 2 Learn groups
- Raising a Reader
- NC Pre-K information
- child care subsidy information
- Jump Start Child Care Scholarship Program
- child care provider training and technical assistance
- child health consultation
- early literacy support
- Healthy Habits programming
- W.A.G.E.$ salary supplement coordination