DURHAM'S PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN

Community development and capacity building - the partnership funds a community outreach, information and resources activity and a program coordination and evaluation activity, both of which focus on community development and capacity building. The community outreach, information and resources activity creates educational materials; develops, manages, and supports public relations activities; and coordinates events in order to build awareness of issues affecting young children and their families. Th program coordination and evaluation activity conducts technical assistance, monitoring, evaluation, program development, data collection and analysis and needs assessments in order to achieve program excellence and effectiveness. Several community based iniatives also fall under program coordination: transition to kindergarten, the early childhood mental health task force, durhaess.