Abilities Network Inc.

Filing Period

Jul 1, 2012 to Jun 30, 2013

Signed

Dec 19, 2013

Return Version

2012v2.1

Gross Receipts

$9,646,309

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

Project act - all children togetherproject all children together is a program that provides training and mentoring to childcare providers and teachers throughout the state of maryland. Project act receives funding from a grant through the maryland state department of education - office of child care. Under these grants, childcare providers can receive free training in core of knowledge areas that will assist with keeping their credentials current to meet childcare licensing requirements and learn how to fully include children with disabilities in childcare settings. The core of knowledge areas include: professionalism, child development, health, safety, and nutrition, special needs, and community. Under these categories, project act develops and delivers training modules onsite to meet the needs of childcare professionals and teachers. As a result of these trainings, childcare professionals are more comfortable with working with a variety of children and delivering the best services possible to all children in their care. Project act provides free onsite child consultation services in baltimore, harford and cecil county. Through this project, project act consultants provide case management services to children who have challenging behaviors and are in danger of expulsion from the child care center. The goal of this project is to retain children in child care and to provide the necessary resources to child care providers, children and parents. Project act also provides mental health consultation to the maryland rural development corporation's head start programs in harford, cecil and caroline counties.project act receives funding to implement inclusive child care programming and to raise the quality of early childhood education for all children. Partners include the baltimore county community development block grant program, the national inclusion project and other foundations. Project act also works to increase inclusive opportunities in and out of school and summer camp programs for school aged children.

Activity 3

Healthy familieshealthy families baltimore county (hfbc) is part of a national effort to support new parents with helping their children have a healthy start in life. Services are available to families of children prenatally through age five. Initial contact must occur either prenatally or within two weeks of the baby's birth. Hfbc provides assessments, information and referral services, intensive home visitation, parent education, crisis intervention, advocacy, child development assessment, and parent group meetings to participating families.

Filer

EIN

52-6060453