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> Early Care and Education - Strategies

Our work is guided by a five-year strategic plan for Montgomery County, Maryland.

Planning Brighter Futures for Children, Youth and Families, FY 2007 – 2012 provides key strategies in each concentration area we cover.

Key Strategies for Early Care and Education

Over 55,000 families are nurturing the needs of 79,000 children under age 6 in Montgomery County. These young children are more racially and ethnically diverse than the population as a whole. The following strategies were selected to address their needs:

Strategy 1: Increase the availability of home-visiting services

Strategy 2: Increase early childhood emotional and behavioral health resources

Strategy 3: Increase opportunities for parents to receive education and support in childhood development and effective parenting for positive outcomes

Strategy 4: Increase access to formal high quality, developmentally appropriate early childhood education for three-year-old children at risk

Strategy 5: Increase accessible, affordable, quality child care

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