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June 24- 4 p.m.
Oct. 28 - (time and location to be announced) evening
meeting open to all staff
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Our commitment is:
River Valley Child Development
Services was established in 1971 as the Region III Early Childhood Demonstration
Center, a component of a statewide system of regional early childhood centers.
The purpose of the regional early childhood center was to demonstrate
appropriate programs for preschool systems. In Region III, centers were
set up in
Cabell, Kanawha, Lincoln, Mason and Wayne
counties the first six months. In 1998, the High/Scope Educational Research Foundation, in collaboration with the National Associate for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), established the Program Recognition Project. Growing out of work by NAEYC’s Program panel on Quality, Compensation, and Affordability, the project selected River Valley Child Development Services as one of ten “Exemplary Programs” chosen nationwide. River
Valley is going green
Support TIPS (Tuition Investment Program Support) to help ensure that all families can access high quality child care at prices they can afford. (more)
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It is a classic case of pay now or pay
later. Children enrolled in quality early childhood programs are more likely
to graduate from high school, complete college, stay at a good job, buy a
home and raise a healthy family. An early learning investment has been documented to save $7 for every $1 that society spends. Yet, less than a third of West Virginia's children benefit from early care and education. And, for the children who do attend these programs, a quality environment is not guaranteed. Treated differently? Does Racism still thrive in 'post-racial' America? Suzi Brodof (Executive Director of River Valley Child Development Services) and her colleague Marsha Dawson were mentioned in the national child care magazine Child Care Exchange in an article by Holly Bruno as members of a Bi-Racial team of diversity trainers presenting nationally where they still face discrimination issues. Suzi's credit card is immediately accepted when they check into hotels whereas Marsha's is not (Marsha being an African American). For more on this please read the article by Holy Bruno "Mary Catherine and me: building cross-cultural relationships in "post-racial" America " in the November/December issue of Child Care Exchange magazine (No 190).
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e schedule for River Valley Child Development Services Board Meeting’s
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have
partnered with Planet Green in a fundraising effort to collect empty
cartridges and used cell phones. It’s a great way
to raise money while helping our environment too! 
three years of life,
providing an unprecedented window of opportunity to shape the
capacity of our state's future citizenry.
productive futures. This
results in an increased burden on all West Virginia taxpayers and continues
to strain the resources of our small state.
