South Carolina First Steps To

“A copy of form 990 is made available to the executive director for review prior to filing. The financial information on form 990 is based primarily upon the organization's audited financial statements, which are provided to the board.”

“The organization's governing documents, conflict of interest policy, and financial statements are made available for public inspection upon request.”

“Through the south carolina freedom of information act, all governing documents, such as the conflict of interest policy, and financial statements, are available for public inspection. Those who wish to inspect these documents must make the request in writing. The documents are then required to be provided within two weeks of the written request.”

“Per south carolina code of laws section 59-152-10: there is established the south carolina first steps to school readiness, a comprehensive, results- oriented initiative for improving early childhood development by providing, through local partnerships, public and private funds, and support for high-quality early childhood development and education services for children by providing support for their families' efforts toward enabling their children to reach school ready to succeed.”

“Child care: childcare training-a program that supports child care providers and equips them to advance along the center for child care career development (ccccd) career framework, advance within the abc quality system, improve an approved measure of program quality and/or to provide training on a topic- specific focus based on regional ta coordination meetings. Childcare quality enhancement-a program for individuals who provide consultation/coaching and mentoring. Coaching and consultation and mentoring include a wide range of behaviors including specific and direct feedback, action planning, modeling, reviewing, role-playing and goal setting. Childcare scholarships-childcare scholarships are available for families that qualify. South carolina first steps leverages state, local and private resources to increase the quality of, and number of children participating in, high-quality pre-kindergarten programs in both the public and private sectors.”

“SCHOOL TRANSITION”