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Local Partnership For Children
Planning New 'Smart Start ' Push
BY SUSAN USHER
A lack of child development aad p? ? ?*?g
education for parents and others who csst for
children.
Tbo many children who start school without
the skills they need to succeed.
Tbo many children starting school without
proper immunizations from disease.
A lack of affordable, appropriate day care.
More children eligible for Head Start pre
school than there is space available to serve them
A lack of classroom space for pre-kindergar
ten classes.
Acctss to health care and other service* for
children hindered by lack of transportation, limit
ed agency hours and money, and by bureaucratic
tangles.
Do you share any of these concerns or others
related to preschooi-age children in Brunswick
County?
If so. Brunswick County's Partnership For
Children wants to involve you in efforts to obtain
a "Smart Start" grant through the North Carolina
Partnership for Children to develop a better way
to deliver services needed by preschool children
and their families.
An organizational meeting will be held Thurs
day, Aug. 4, at 5 JO p.m. in the Public Assembly
Building at the Brunswick County Government
Center at Bolivia. The history of Smart Start and
the local project will be reviewed, along with the
results of a recent needs and resources survey,
and the next steps will be discussed.
White Brunswick County isn't necessarily a
"shoe-in" for project funding. Chairman Lori
Bates of long Beach believes the local partner
ship stands a good chance of being one of the 12
projects funded this time around.
"Unless we blow it wc should get this," she
?aid. "We should receive around $900,000 to Si
mlfHwi"
Smut Start it Gov. Jim Hant't package ap
proach for improving human asrvicea for pre
tchool children, to insure they are ready?in
terms of physical, mental and emotional develop
ment ? for a successful start in school.
In the first round of fending Brunswick
County's package was ranked 18th, bat only 12
projects were funded. Another 12 will be funded
inis xpuaioei.
Bates said SO counties are either dose to in
corporating a local partnership or are incorporat
ed. Of thoae 20 are "active" in aome fashion.
Since the first round of applications the local
Partnership received funds from Brunswick
County toward conducting s needs assessment to
provide more accurate and specific data for plan
ning purposes.
The local partnership operates under a 29
member board of directors. It has a 178-person
mailing list and anticipates developing a working
committee structure.
Brunswick County Partnership participants
have developed a "wish list" of how it would like
to addreas aome of the local problems it has iden
tified.
"One of the main things is a mobile pediatric
van," said Bates. "It would travel into local com
munities at hoars that are accesaibic to working
parents and provide immunizations and perhaps
other services. We think that is really important."
Also near the top of their list are more staff
development for child care center workers and
parenting skills classes.
There are so many things to look at and try
to deai with," said Bates. "One thing we've real
ized is that when you intend to help children you
have to work with the family."
Local parents, educators, churches, service
providers, bus mem people, ail interested persons,
will have a chance to discusi the needs of local
pteachool children and their families and possible
solutions to thoae problems during a aeries of
meetings in August.
After the Aug. 4 organisational meeting, a
public meeting will be held each Thursday in
August, also at 5 -30 p.m. at the Public Assembly
Building, to make sure all viewpoints are incorpo
rated into the Smart Start proposal.
On Tuesday evenings a team of volunteers
will work on drafting and refining the actual ap
plication package.
Last year the Smart Start initiative involved
more than 100 people from all walks of life and
ifnwuniiiiB a broad range of community agen
cies and organizations. This year, said Bates, the
Partnership wants at least 200 people involved.
Thoae who cannot attend the Aug. 4 meeting
but would like more information can contact
Bates at 278-6210.
Meeting Sat. Morning
For North Bruns. Soccer
North Brunswick High School students inter
ested in playing on the soccer team this fall are
asked to attend a meeting Saturday at 9 a.m. at
Northwest Township Park.
Coach Randy Collins said prospective team
members will be filling out paperwork at the
meeting. All players will be required to get a
physical before the first practice.
Anyooe who cannot attend the meeting or
needs more information can call Collins at 371
3665.
New BCC Program Seeks To Boost
Skills Of Jobless; Underemployed
BY SUSAN USHER
Brunswick Community College
will begin offering a pie-job training
program sometime this fall designed
to help unemployed and underem
ployed workers get jobs or gain
skills for future jobs.
With a start-up budget of
$100,611, BCC was one of 14 cam
puses chosen as new Human Re
sources Development (HRD) pro
gram sites. That will bring the total
to 55 campuses throughout the state.
"This was unexpected," said Dean
of Continuing Education Iny
Thrift, who will administer the pro
gram. Department of Community
College requests to fund additional
HRD sites had been considered and
rejected in the past "We occasional
ly get a good surprise."
Thrift said it is doubtful that the
new program will be operating by
the start of fall quarter on Sept 6,
but estimates it will be start some
time Hi to fall
Thrift has past experience over
seeing an HRD program and said
the state Department of Community
Colleges is ready to assist as well.
"It shouldn't take us too long to
get darted," he said. "We'll proba
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uty uc tuitug a itiu-uiuB uireuui.
But HRD is not the type of thing
that has to operate on a quarter sys
tem."
Through HRD students are taught
how to took for job* and bow to
ftmdiflfl ss employees.
-HRD blends weU with the JOBS
and JTPA programs," said Thrift,
two programs that also have voca
tfcmil preparation and job placement
as their goals, but an open only to
specific target groups such as wel
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rare recipients or tne uisauvintigeo.
"Almost anybody can take an HRD
dflML**
Statewide a total of 29,622 HRD
graduates employment dur
ing a 17-year period ending with the j
1991-92 school year, including
2,012 in 1991-92.
While all HRD programs must
provide pro-vocational orientation
?m motivational additional
course contest is developed tod
modified according to the employ
ment needs of each local communi
ty
"We can customize classes to
meet county needs," said Thrift.
"However we need a market for
whatever we're upgrading people
to."
typical instruction includes as
sessing students' attitudes, pff**1
sppcaiaHte, interpersonal behavior
goals. Students typically work de
velop skills in problem-solving,
communication and employ ability,
such as completing a job applica
tion, preparing a resume and han
dling job interviews.
Instruction can also include short
term skills training and basic acade
mic instruction.
Graduates receive follow-up ser
vices for 12 months alter they com
plete the program, with staff mem
bers monitoring progress and check
ing to see if additional training or
counseling is
HRD programs are evaluated on
the basis of their graduates, the
number of students completing the
program, placed is job or training
programs. Increases in earned in
come and decreases in public assis
tance for graduates are compared to
training coats as a measure of pro
gram nffirirncy.
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