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Driving Attendance in
On Health Care Day, students tour Doctors Medical Center and Memorial Medical Center.
Need Quality
Child Care? Childhood Education programs and a
Finding quality child care
in Stanislaus County begins
with a call to the Stanislaus
County Child Care Resource &
Referral (R&R) program. R&R
maintains a database of school- Development Courses (12 units). With
aged exempt child care centers,
licensed child care centers and
family child care homes in the
county. Currently, Stanislaus
County has 130 licensed child
care centers, 308 licensed
family child care homes, and
93 license-exempt child care
centers. Child care referrals are
free of charge, and staff can
focus a search based on age of
the child, need and location. If
you need help paying for child
care, program staff can place
you on the StanWait eligibility
list for subsidized child care.
Community members may
obtain a personalized list of
child care referrals or add their
names to the StanWait list at
www. findchildcarestanislaus.
org. For more information, call
(209) 238-6400.
Stanislaus County
Thanks to the continued support of Modesto Toyota, for the second
consecutive year a brand new Toyota Corolla will be awarded to a public
high school student in Stanislaus County at the end of the school year.
The Perfect Attendance Drive is a partnership between Modesto Toyota
and the Stanislaus County Office of Education to help promote school
attendance for students in public high schools. Each month that a student
has perfect attendance, his/her name will go into a drawing for a chance
to win the car. This means students will have a chance to improve their
attendance from month to month (August 2018 - April 2019), and have their
names entered into the drawing multiple times at their school site based on
good attendance. This year's winner will be announced in May 2019.
Last year's Toyota Corolla winner was Julia Vossekuil from Patterson High
School. Official rules are online: www.stancoe.org/go/DestinationGrad
Child & Family Services
Parents Become Teachers Due to Innovative Program
Due to a staffing shortage in Early
need for substitute teachers, SCOE’s Child
& Family Services Division developed a
program to assist interested parents in
becoming teachers and substitutes. Through
a partnership with Modesto Junior College
and Brandman University, 55 Head Start
and Preschool parents completed four Child
this and 150 volunteer hours, these parents
are now eligible to apply for the California
Commission on Teacher Credentialing
Associate Teacher Permit.
Domarin Eivazi said she is so grateful
for the Parent to Teacher Program. “Many
years ago, I worked as an Associate Teacher
in Iran,” she said. “It’s a miracle that I have
been given this opportunity to enter this
field again and perhaps become a teacher.”
She also said she learned a lot through this
program and that everyone was very helpful Domarin Eivazi with her son Dimitri in his Head Start classroom.
to her, especially her MJC advisors and instructors.
English is her third language so she was grateful for the programs for agricultural workers.
support she received. “We provide engaging, play-based, learning
SCOE’s Child & Family Services (CFS) Division has environments where children can explore, discover, and
been giving children a head start in school and life for the interact through a host of activities designed to help them
past five decades. Last year, through its early childhood develop a solid foundation of language, early literacy, and
education (preschool) and support programs, the CFS early math and science skills,” said CFS Executive Director
Division provided early education programs to more than Tony Jordan. “Children also develop healthy habits
8,400 children (from birth to age five) and 7,100 families and routines, and social-emotional skills through peer
in Stanislaus County. Approximately 20% of those interactions and positive, nurturing relationships with their
children are served in five other California Counties in early educators. In short, we help with school readiness.”
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