• Quality early care and education programs help children learn and develop important skills, while also enabling parents to work or attend school.
• Reading to a child promotes brain development. Giving a child time and full attention when reading them a story tells them they matter. It also builds self-esteem, and vocabulary, feeds imagination, and even improves their sleeping patterns.
• Empowering parents to be their child’s first teacher involves providing parents with knowledge and support to promote child development, parenting strategies, early detection of developmental delays, prevent child abuse, and increase school readiness.