Cornerstone 1: Quality Early Care & Education
The Bright Futures Roadmap is a community-wide strategy to support the health and well-being of our community’s youngest children and families. The Roadmap is organized around four cornerstones or key strategies. Partners have begun to identify opportunities for cross-cornerstone collaboration.
CORNERSTONE 1: Families have a variety of high-quality early care and education options that meet their needs, provided through a mixed-delivery system.
This cornerstone has three primary strategies, which you can read more about on this page:
- Develop an implementation plan and secure a dedicated public funding stream for universal preschool and other early care and education initiatives.
- Recruit, retain, and support a qualified early care and education workforce across child care and preschool settings.
- Ensure school-district and community-based enrichment programs and activities (e.g. library reading programs, before- and after-school programs, summer camps, child care, etc.) are accessible to all who want to engage across age continuum of prenatal to eight years old.