Delaware's Early Childhood Program
What is the Early Childhood program?
The Division of Public Health has received two grants to support initiatives addressing needs of children birth through five and their families.
Community Integrated Service Systems/Healthy Child Care America is a federal grant program designed to link a variety of systems together to ensure optimal delivery of quality, health focused child care. These funds are used to provide training and services to child care providers. Funding is also used to increase awareness of health and safety issues among child care providers.
Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems (ECCS) is a new federal grant program whose purpose is to provide a framework and leadership to the state to ensure a family-centered early childhood system in which every young child will be ready to learn and able to grow into competent, independent, nurturing adults, who can in turn, successfully parent the next generation.
To find out more, follow the links below if you are:
- A parent interested in participating
- An early childhood or health professional
- A member of the general public
DPH collaborates with others to develop an early childhood comprehensive system. Links to our partners include:
- Early Childhood Work Group
- Office of Child Care Licensing
- Child Mental Health Services
- Family and Workplace Connection
- Wesley College
Call the Early Childhood Program Office to learn how you can participate .
