Ensuring all children have access to
high quality early childhood education.
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Facts about Early Childhood Development- Did you know?

  • There are only 2,000 days between the time a baby is born and when that child shows up for the first day of kindergarten?
  • With quality early childhood education, children will be school ready; have higher graduation rates and grow into productive citizens and valuable employees?
  • In the first few years of life, 700 new neural connections are formed each second?
  • During the first years of life, children’s brains are developing rapidly and laying the foundation for learning.  The interactions that children have with adults influence how children develop and learn.  As a result, early childhood educators have a prime opportunity to provide children with interactions that can support children’s growth and development, particularly their language and communication skills.
  • High quality early childhood programs improve health and nutrition?
  • 85% of a child’s brain is developed by age 3?
  • Playing with blocks and other building toys teaches children about geometry?
  • Talking with your child is one of the most important things you can do?
  • You can help your child learn while driving? Help your child to tell you the color of signs, shapes of signs and count how long you sit at a red light!
  • Music helps a child learn to rhyme?

Step 1: Do I Qualify?

Our goal is to provide families with equal access to quality options. First, let’s see if you qualify for a publicly funded program.

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Step 2: My Options?

Thanks for asking. The importance of your child’s development begins even before birth. If you are on this site, you are likely in the crucial development years for your child. So, what are your best available options in providing quality care?

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Step 3: Apply & Complete Application

If you would now like to enroll your child in the Avoyelles Parish Early Childhood Network, fill out the enrollment application. Upon completion, you will be contacted with follow-up information.

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