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For Immediate Release
Friday November 21, 2008

Success By 6 Coalition of Douglas County is pleased to announce that Douglas County has been awarded an Early Childhood Block Grant from the KS Children’s Cabinet and Trust Fund.

The block grant program invests in the infrastructure needed for a functioning child care financial aid system for working families with infants and toddlers. The block grant also invests in the expansion and enhancement of preschool programs. Parents, employees, employers and the community will benefit from the block grant’s investments in a continuous quality improvement system for participating early learning programs. Finally the block grant funds a program to support the development of “soft skills” that our future workforce will need to be productive in the workplace.

This block grant supports the efforts of the Douglas County Leadership Delegation on Early Learning which sponsored the September 26th Building Our Future Right From the Start community summit to address the economic promise of investing in early childhood. Success By 6 would like the block grant, particularly in the FIAT financial aid system, to spur local public and private economic development investments in quality, affordable early learning opportunities for young children of working families.