Mission
To collaboratively foster strong communities by leveraging resources and mobilizing advocacy to ensure high quality early education and family support for children and their families in Charlotte’s fragile neighborhoods.
Vision
Charlotte Preschool Partnership will be a recognized leader and model for long-term collaboration that enhances each school’s capacity to nurture children and families in Charlotte’s fragile neighborhoods. As a result of our work, more children will succeed in school and more families will have access to the resources they need to break the cycles of poverty, violence and abuse.
Core Values
- All children and families deserve access to quality early education and family support.
- Holistic approaches addressing social, emotional, physical and educational needs can best prepare children to enter school and succeed.
- Supporting children in school and in life requires connections that extend beyond the classroom to include families and communities.
- Involving families in education supports children’s success and promotes positive development for the whole family.
- Successfully educating children and supporting families strengthens communities.
- Culturally competent practice is necessary for effective learning at all ages.
- Quality programs demonstrate positive, long-term outcomes.
- Leveraging resources can benefit member organizations and expand community impact.
- Multiple organizations speaking with a collective voice yield more powerful advocacy and stimulate greater social change.
- Collaborative thinking can improve individual and joint issue resolution.
- Effective partnerships recognize the unique strengths and needs of individual members.
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