What is Smart Start?
SMART START of RENO/RICE COUNTIES is a parterning agency whose focus is to improve and support families and child care providers with children age 0 through 5. The design is to ensure that children are healthy and ready to succeed in school.
SMART START of RENO/RICE COUNTIES partners with many agencies in this initiative which includes but is not limited to:.
Child Care Links
Early Education Center
Early Head Start
Head Start
Healthy Families/KCSL
Hutchinson Community College Early Childhood Education Center
Hutchinson Community Foundation
Hutchinson Hospital
Kanas Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies/KACCRRA
Including the TEACH and WAGE$ Programs
Partner Agencies for Child Excellence/PACE
Reno County Health Department/RCHD
Reno County Growth Coalition
Child Development Associate/CDA
Kansas Social and Rehabilitation Services /SRS
Center for Hope Child and Family Counseling
CISRC
First Christian Church Preschool
Kansas Department of Commerce
Kansas Registered Early Childhood Associate Apprenticeship Program/ECAAP
Reno/Rice counties area Childcare and Preschool Centers
SMART START of RENO/RICE COUNTIES is supported by a grant that is administered through the Kansas Children's Cabinet.
Janet Hamilton, Hutchinson Community Foundation, is the grant writer.
Hutchinson Community Foundation is the fiscal administrator.
For more information/help contact:
Dr. Marilyn Graham, Grant Coordinator
Smart Start of Reno/Rice Counties
200 West 2nd Avenue, Suite A
Hutchinson, KS 67501-5236
Office: 620-669-5047