Quality Improvement System
This comprehensive, voluntary early care and education improvement system seeks to enhance the quality of child care sites so children birth to 5 are healthy and ready to learn when they enter school.

Comprehensive Services
This program, funded by CSC and implemented by the Health Care District of Palm Beach County, provides teams of social workers and nurses to screen very young children in subsidized child care settings for problems such as vision, hearing, child development and family functioning and follow-up services.  

School Readiness – Subsidized Child Care
In collaboration with the Early Learning Coalition of Palm Beach County, CSC works to assure that working poor families have access to affordable, quality child care. By providing expanded funding, struggling families can still afford child care using a sliding-fee scale based on income.

Continue-to-Care
Because one of the most important ingredients in quality child care is consistency of care, CSC works with the Healthy Beginnings system to assure families served through Healthy Beginnings also have child care options.

Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY) and Parenting Smart Babies
Not all children enter child care or formal early education prior to kindergarten, so these programs ensure that those spending their preschool years at home or in other settings still receive quality, early cognitive stimulation. Because parents are their child’s first teacher, these two programs offer parents simple things to do with even the youngest babies to stimulate brain development.

Literacy
Reading is the basis of success in school and in life; therefore, CSC works to ensure that literacy skill development is intertwined in all service areas.

Educational Sponsorships
A strong bond between the child and early childhood staff over time is very important, but, unfortunately, the high turnover rate among educators often prevents that. In fact, it is not uncommon in child care settings to have an annual turnover of 25-50% - far above the average of 7% or less for public school teachers. SEEK and T.E.A.C.H. scholarships support early childhood caregiver staff development through continuing education and training to gain specific credentials. Palm Beach Community College helps coordinate all professional development work as well as WAGES and educational incentive awards to child care practitioners working in Quality Improvement System programs.