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Strengthening Families
Once a month in Dillingham, a small group of fathers and their children get together for an activity chosen by the fathers. It might be pure fun. It might be instructive, too. The important thing is they do it together, strengthening family ties and community bonds. In Fairbanks, a faith-based child development center offers concrete Read More
Providence Earns Family-friendly Workplace Honors
On-site child care and flexible scheduling are among the family-friendly features that earned Providence Health & Services a place on Working Mother magazine’s list of the “100 Best” companies for employees. Providence has made the magazine’s Best 100 list three of the past four years and was the only Alaska company to make the list. Read More
More Books in Baby Hands
Families in Southcentral Alaska are receiving baby board books, thanks to a collaboration between The CIRI Foundation, Title Wave Books, and Best Beginnings. The CIRI Foundation (TCF) provided a grant for the approximately 1,500 books and Title Wave discounted the cost. The books are distributed to families through Southcentral Foundation’s Nutaqsiivik home visiting program. “Lots Read More
Yuut Elitnaurviat (Yuut)
A public-private nonprofit partnership in Bethel is raising capital funds for a project that would offer training toward certification in early childhood teaching and provide needed child care for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers. Yuut Elitnaurviat (Yuut) is a nonprofit corporation that provides training and educational opportunities for the people of the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta Region. Programs Read More
Preschool Pilot Grants
Six school districts in urban and rural communities will start pilot preschool programs with grants announced recently by the Alaska Department of Education & Early Development (DEED). Earlier this year, the state legislature appropriated $2 million to fund the Alaska Pilot Pre-Kindergarten Project. Alaska is one of only 12 states that don’t have state-sponsored preschool. Read More
Major Grocer Pushes Books
Carrs/Safeway encourages employees to read with their kids Carrs/Safeway is encouraging Alaska parents to read with their children by distributing “ABC Read and Talk With Me Anchorage” book bags to its employees. The book bags, a project spearheaded by Anchorage’s First Lady Deborah Bonito with funding from BP, were designed to help parents and care Read More
Statewide Education Summit
Alaska educators convened to attend “Building Alaska’s Future One Student at a Time,” held in Anchorage, Alaska, Nov. 13-14, 2008. The purpose of the summit was to draft a vision, mission, goals, and outcomes for education in Alaska prekindergarten through secondary education, as well as to broadly define what every Alaska high school graduate should Read More
Employers and Child Care: Credit Union 1
For many working parents the struggle to balance family and a career is complicated. Parents struggle to find high-quality, affordable child care, which keeps some parents who would like to work or continue to work, from doing so. Other challenges working parents face are work environments that do not have policies that support working parents Read More