United Way Of Central Virginia Inc

Bright beginnings central virginia (bbcv)bright beginnings central virginia (bbcv) is an early childhood care and education initiative of the united way of central virginia. Bbcv convenes a network of educators and other key stakeholders to address issues concerning early childhood education and kindergarten readiness. Its coalition includes agencies, early childhood educators, health providers and community organizations that work to ensure that children in our region enter kindergarten ready to learn and be successful in school and beyond.bbcv works with public and private programs, licensed childcare centers, home-based and religious childcare programs, and collaborates with virginia's ready region system.bbcv also coordinates the dolly parton imagination library for uwcv, a program that provides a new, age-appropriate book to enrolled children each month until they reach age five. Children can be enrolled at birth.bbcv is currently engaged in planning a new and exciting initiative to enhance the quality of early childhood education programs, supporting children and educators through the americorps model of community service, and working with uwcv to address the concurrent issues of childcare availability and workforce participation.

2-1-1 virginia2-1-1 virginia is a free service that connects people with available community services in central virginia and throughout the commonwealth. The service is available 24 hours a day, 365 days per year. Trained community resource specialists answered over 4,100 calls and gave over 11,300 referrals for the fiscal year ended, june 2024. In addition, the central virginia site, which is housed at the united way of central virginia, is responsible for maintaining the statewide 2-1-1 database. Approximately, 18,000 programs were updated during the year.