WALLA WALLA, Wash.-Grant funding awarded to the Walla Walla Center for Children and Families will provide early learning support and allow for the hiring of additional staff.
The $50,000 grant was recently awarded to Walla Walla Public Schools for the WWCCF by the Washington State Department of Commerce.
The WWCCF provides birth-to-five services for children and parents as a coordinated and comprehensive community learning hub according to a press release from Walla Walla Public Schools.
The Walla Walla School District will work with the WWCCF to provide a support framework of summer parent, family and community engagement.
“Summer is a critical time for engaging new families, as well as for maintaining connections to vulnerable families who are working towards goals that will improve their children’s lives,” says Brent Cummings, Director at the Center for Children & Families.
The grant will also allow the WWCCF to hire additional staff to extend services into the summer months, including the positions of enrollment coordinator, four head start family advocates, and two ECEAP family support specialists according to today’s press release.
Funding will also help support the hiring of a year-round Communities in Schools (CIS) Student & Community Advocate at the WWCCF.
“The addition of the CIS Student & Community Advocate at the CCF will build the Center’s capacity to provide both drop-in and comprehensive family support services, especially for the approximately 150 families not served by the intensive Head Start and ECEAP programs,” Cummings said.
