An On-Going Commitment to Partnering
by Patti Woolley and Martha B. Naber Child and Family Services, Kennebec Valley Community Action Program

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For ten years, Child and Family Services (C&FS) of Kennebec Valley Community Action Program has explored and established partnerships within a variety of settings and communities in its service area. The partnerships, designed to meet a wide variety of identified community needs, have included:

• Establishing Head Start classes in public schools;
• Establishing Head Start-child care partnerships where comprehensive child care was needed;
  
• Working with the local technical college to implement school year on-site child care;
  
• Working with the local birth-to-five early intervention system, the school district, and a vocational high school, to build a new facility at an elementary school to provide inclusive therapeutic Head Start/preschool services;
  
• Establishing a family resource center for the community at the Head Start site;
  
• Working with a vocational high school program to initiate and operate an infant/toddler child care center for parenting teens to finish high school;
  
• Partnering with Catholic Charities of Maine to promote a local child support group, "Stand for Children";
  
• Jointly implementing family literacy programming by Head Start and Chapter 1 in a public school; and
  
• Jointly staffing and funding a continuum of Head Start services, ranging from home-based to five-day, center-based programming in a public school.

For more information, contact:
Child and Family Services,
Kennebec Valley Community
Action Program,
P.O. Box 1529,
Waterville, ME 04903.
T: 207/873-2122, F: 207/873-0158

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