• Assure that all working families have access to high-quality affordable child care.
• Make sure that all local children from birth to five years of age have access to affordable health care and are being raised in safe and healthy environments.
• Ensure that working parents are supported and strengthened in their role as their children's primary caregiver.
• Promote communication and collaboration, and provide assessment and evaluation of programs that target families with young children to ensure a true Partnership for Children in Lincoln and Gaston counties.

The Partnership for Children of Lincoln & Gaston Counties:

• administers North Carolina's Smart Start funds for programs that benefit children ages 0-5 years and their families;
• is a catalyst for bringing different groups together for the sake of children, and
• educates the community on the critical needs of young children and helps develop solutions to those needs.

Our mission: To serve as a leading advocate and financial resource, in collaboration with other community agencies, to provide affordable access to high quality services for young children.

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Please join us to celebrate!

Open House- Wednesday, August 11- 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Ribbon Cutting at 11:15 a.m.

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Please read our Team Covenant on Facebook!

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Call, email and write our local legislators and tell them to support Smart Start!

Here is the link for legislators in Gaston County:

Gaston

Here is the link for legislators in Lincoln County:

Lincoln

Membership Application for ECP

View the 2009 PFCLG Annual Report

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View our Annual Report 2008
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