Smart Start Rowan works to:

• Build community wide awareness of the importance of quality early learning experiences both in the home and in organized early learning facilities;
• Promote the activities and services provided by Smart Start Rowan;
• Identify the needs of young children and their families;
• Improve the quality of child care;
• Make child care more affordable and accessible for parents;
• Provide families with essentia information and resources;
• Educate the community about the critical needs of young children
• Provide services without bias to race, color, religion, age, nationality, gender, marital status, mental or physical ability or sexual orientation.

• Support the healthy, growth and development of children;
• Provide family support services;
• Enhance early care and education environments to promote quality and to support a well qualified early childhood workforce.

Grant Funded Activities:

Dental Varnish Program provided in collaboration with local pediatricians to help prevent tooth decay in young children- Funded by The Blanche and Julian Robertson Foundation

Imagination Library:  A literacy program that provides a book per month for young children.  Funded through local donations.

Expanded child care resource and referral services for parents looking for child care for school age children.  Funded through a Regional Child Care Resource and Referral grant.

For more information on either of these grant funded activities please call Smart Start Rowan, 704-630-9085.