First Steps Programs

Since its inception in 1999, First Steps has helped nearly 340,000 of South Carolina's youngest children and their families get ready for school. First Steps focuses on five broad strategy areas: Early Education, Family Strengthening, Child Care Quality, Healthy Start and School Transition. Click here for specifics on these programs.

MORE INFORMATION

• Private 4K Expansion (Now Accepting Provider Applications for 2007-2008)

• Pre-K Fact Sheet (pdf)

• Early Childhood Quality Standards Task Force

• Countdown to Kindergarten

• Dolly Parton's Imagination Library

• Family Friendly Workplace

• PAT Trainings

• Prevent Child Abuse and Neglect (Training Opportunities!)

• Publicly Funded Pre-K (pdf)

• T.E.A.C.H.