| In 1993, North Carolina Governor Jim Hunt founded Smart Start, North Carolina's nationally recognized and award-winning early childhood initiative. It was designed to ensure that ALL young children 0-5 enter school healthy and ready to succeed.
Smart Start is a public-private initiative that provides early education funding to all of the state's 100 counties. Smart Start funds are administered at the local level through local nonprofit organizations such as the Robeson County Partnership for Children. Services offered reflect documented community needs. Currently, the Robeson County Partnership for Children has 18 funded activities.
Smart Start funds are used to improve the quality of child care, make child care more affordable and accessible, provide access to health services and offer family support to ALL families, not just low-income families. Smart Start has achieved tremendous results in these areas and continues to strive to reach all children in North Carolina.
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- 2008 Child Care Provider of the Year, Kenny Britt -
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- Rumba on the Lumber Chili Team 2008 -
The Early Childhood Engineers. All Aboard for a Smart Start!!!
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- Smart Start Day Painters -
It's never to early to learn how to paint!
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I WON A BIKE AT SMART START DAY!!!
(Ken and Jennifer Stephenson of Speech Pathology Services of Robeson donated
four bicycles and two electronic ride-ons as Smart Start Day door prizes)
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