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Early Childhood Collaborative briefs board on Early Start CT role and local needs assessment
Summary
Joanne Kelleher told the board that the Early Childhood Collaborative of Southington is the town’s local governance partner for Early Start CT (contracted as of July 2025), that the town currently has 45 state-funded preschool slots and will need a community needs assessment to compete for more slots as the state expands funding.
Joanne Kelleher, director/presenter for the Early Childhood Collaborative of Southington, briefed the board on the state’s Early Start CT initiative and the collaborative’s new role as local governance partner under a contract with the state (held through the intermediary Shine Early Learning). She said the program’s intent is a mixed-delivery model of state-funded slots distributed across public schools, child-care centers and family providers and that local governance partners will help align services and communicate needs to the Office…
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