Community Services for Children Inc.

Filing Period

Jul 1, 2012 to Jun 30, 2013

Signed

Feb 11, 2014

Return Version

2012v2.1

Gross Receipts

$41,803,833

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

Subsidized child care services for low income families who are working or are in training programs help make child care more affordable and provide a safe early childhood or school age experience. Families whose income is less than 235% of the federal poverty guidelines are eligible for the subsidy. Each family is required to pay a portion of the cost of the child care based on their family income. Requirements for the program include: working or in training at least 20 hours per week, must be citizens of the u.s., and must provide verification of need for child care for employment or training.parent services to families include family counseling (approximately 1,500 calls) on the quality child care programs available based on a parent choice model. All families may select a provider that best meets their child's needs. Other services include the processing of over 2,000 applications annually, determining eligibility for over 2,100 families enrolled, providing affordable child care to over 9,000 children each year. Provider services include subsidy payments to over 1,800 providers totaling approximately $16.5 million annually.

Activity 3

Early learning and school age quality initiatives (northeast regional key) - the northeast regional key is responsible for coordinating and administering a variety of professional development activities, quality improvement activities and financial awards and grants for more than 1,500 programs in northeastern pennsylvania. The northeast regional key provides services to regulated programs in berks, bucks, carbon, lackawanna, lehigh, luzerne, monroe, northampton, pike, schuylkill, susquehanna, wayne, and wyoming counties. Accomplishments in the last program year include:- developed and implemented a northeast region quality improvement plan for professional development and technical assistance in partnership with colleges and professional development organizations.- offered approximately 55 college courses and 1,019 professional development activities- 121 children received ecmh consultation services- more than 18,386 teachers and directors attended professional development activities sponsored by the northeast key- 45 programs participated in health and safety consolations- 19 programs received infant/toddler consultation support- 110 programs participated in on-site stars technical assistance- 4 programs participated in school age on-site technical assistance - implemented the keystone stars quality initiative for more than 770 programs- offered individual, group and telephone consultation to assist programs in meeting the stars standards.- the keystone stars program promotes quality in early learning and school age programs. Programs that participant in keystone stars earn a star 1 to star 4 based on meeting quality standards. There were 770 programs in keystone stars serving more than 33,897 children daily. - early learning and school age programs were awarded $6,806,619 to provide quality early learning environments.- inform the early learning community about the status of early learning/school age- convened conference calls with practitioners, distributed the northeast key connection, simply sac (school age newsletter) quarterly and an ecmh newsletter to distribute information and seek input into program design.- convened meeting with higher education leaders, professional development organization, leadership council directory advisory committee and community engagement organizations to share outcomes, new information and seek input into program activities and design.- provided 12 community engagement groups with funds and support to develop an outreach plan to develop relationships with parents, policy leaders, businesses, and schools to assist them in learning more about the issues facing the early learning community and the programs that meet the needs of pa's children. These organizations developed linkages between schools and early learning programs as well as other community stakeholders to support the successful transition into kindergarten.

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EIN

23-2204725