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

Email:  rcss1@sbcglobal.net