Commissioner Shiprack
On Early Childhood
May 04, 2010
Goal: Improve Early Childhood Education
Effective services need to begin as early as possible. Successful programs involve the whole family, including the parents, the child, and caregivers.
If we target the 6.7% of children who enter kindergarten lacking the social and emotional skills necessary to learn successfully, we will have made a tremendous investment in their future, and in ours.
I will work to make a successful system that links services for at-risk children, including; preventative health care, behavioral health care, child and parent mental health, parenting training, affordable housing, child care and early education.