Partnership Of Ashe

Family support - family foundations program offers support and education to parents using parents as teachers curriculum. This is a home visitation program with a group component. This category also includes literacy focused programs, such as dolly parton imagination library and planting the seeds to read project. Planting the seeds to read project is a small grassroots activity designed to promote literacy and put books in the hands of children.

Child care and early education quality - activities including child care resource and referral. Program elements include resource and technical assistance to child care centers and homes, trainings to maintain the quality of centers and homes, training for child care educators, and a resource lending library. A professional development and education incentive program is also offered to encourage early childhood educators to obtain a 2-year or 4-year degree in the early childhood education field or a related field.

Hurricane helene relief efforts, providing various assistance avenues outside of the normal programs