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 Building Early Education Strategies (BEES) – The BEES program aims to provide timely consultation to ensure that child care providers, children, and their families receive the support they need to strengthen the child’s social and emotional development. BEES is a prevention-based program that pairs a Mental Health Consultant with adults working with infants and children to strengthen the child’s social and emotional development needed for school readiness.
 Home Visiting – A voluntary program, Home Visiting, is funded by First 5 Los Angeles that provides hospital and home-based assistance to pregnant and post-partum women. Home Visiting is a service that focuses on families with young children 0–5 and expectant moms. A Home Visitor utilizes the Parents as Teachers curriculum to support the family in developing positive parenting skills and to help parents when they interact with their child. They provide activities based on the child’s age as well as local resources and community referrals to help children and the overall well-being of the family. The services provided can help to prevent child abuse and neglect and help children get ready to start school. To participate, families must live within the boundaries of the 14 Los Angeles communities supported by First 5 Los Angeles’ Best Start initiative.
 Emergency Child Care Bridge – In partnership with the County of Los Angeles Department of Children and Family Services, CCRC assists with the identification of, and funding paid to, foster/resource parents who take in children under the age of five that have been removed from their home in emergency situations.
Child Care Resource & Referral
 Family engagement – CCRC offers a variety of programs as a vehicle to support relationship building and children's healthy development. These programs include School Age Read Along Cohorts, Pop-Up Playgroups, Nurturing Fathers, and Inclusion Trainings.
 Help finding child care – CCRC’s Referral Specialists assist parents, at no charge, in locating and selecting the best child care for their family’s needs—types of child care, how to identify a quality environment, and referrals to licensed child care providers.
Statewide Initiatives
 Preschool Development Grant – CCRC administers funding and provides guidance to a statewide network of Resource & Referral agencies designed to deliver Parent Cafés. The café experience is designed to be a safe and nurturing space for parents to receive new information, share experiences, ask questions, and learn about resources to help raise strong, resilient children. Topics include “The Growing Brain,” “Raising Safe Kids,” “Strengthening Families,” and “Learn the Signs. Act Early.”
Child Care Resource Center, Inc. Notes to Financial Statements
Note 1 – Nature of Operations (continued)
Family Well-Being
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