Our Partners
We can’t do our amazing work without the support and contribution of our partners! We would like to recognize our funding partners and implementation partners.
Enlighten plays a pivotal role in supporting providers on their journey towards enhancing the quality of childcare in Santa Clara County and cultivating equity across the provider community. Enlighten implements the Quality Matters (formerly known as QRIS) stipend program and partners with providers on their professional development journeys.
The Department of Education serves our state by innovating and collaborating with educators, schools, parents, and community partners. Together, as a team, we prepare students to live, work, and thrive in a multicultural, multilingual, and highly connected world.
First 5 Association is a nonprofit membership organization that advocates for and works with the state’s 58 First 5 county commissions to build strong, effective, and sustainable systems serving California’s youngest children.
At First 5 California, we fund programs that educate parents, grandparents, caregivers, and teachers about the critical role they play during a child’s first five years. Since our creation in 1998, we’ve supported millions of families with programs and services designed to help more California kids grow up healthy and ready to succeed in school – and in life!
The Local Early Education Planning Council (LPC) is a collaborative association of representatives from the early care and education field, including parents, child care providers, businesses, and government.
The Santa Clara County Office of Education Childcare Resource and Referral (R&R) Program’s philosophy is to provide every family and provider with the support they need by implementing the Santa Clara County Office of Education’s core equity values, diversity,
inclusion, and partnership. The goals of the R&R Program are to help families in Santa Clara County find high-quality early care and education (ECE) that meets their needs and that the full variety of ECE professionals in the county has access to an R&R system that supports their programmatic success.
The R&R Program offers a variety of free supports, including the Santa Clara County Childcare Portal, with information about licensed childcare programs to help families find a program that meets their needs. Additionally, the R&R Program offers free training on various early learning and development topics, shares information about current childcare topics, and provides technical
support to providers while assisting anyone interested in becoming a licensed childcare provider.
Strong Start of Santa Clara County is a coalition of community leaders, individuals, and organizations committed to expanding access to high quality early learning opportunities for all children age 0 to 8 in Santa Clara County. High quality early learning opportunities support children's brain development, strengthen our schools, and more than pay for themselves through benefits to children, families and our community.
The California Preschool Instructional Network (CPIN) is funded by the California Department of Social Services, Child Care and Development Division and has provided high-quality professional learning, technical assistance, and support to California’s preschool program and School District administrators and teachers working with children 3-5 years old through its statewide network since 2004.
CPIN Region 5, located in Santa Clara COE, support educators in Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, San Benito and Monterey County through regional communities of practice (CP) and a series of professional learning experiences. CPIN promotes promising practices in early learning, family engagement, and equity and emphasizes a whole-child approach.
The Inclusion Collaborative of SCCOE promotes a culture that values all children by strengthening, sustaining, and ensuring inclusive practices. We believe every individual regardless of abilities and disabilities has the right to full access to quality inclusive learning and community environments.
Quality Counts California is a statewide system of locally-implemented quality rating and improvement systems (QRIS), which helps to connect parents and families to high-quality early learning and care programs, and ensures that infants, toddlers, and preschool-age children have quality early learning experiences in their local communities.
Healthier Kids Foundation is a family forward health agency that gives children and those who love them the education and cutting edge tools they rightfully deserve to live a healthy life.
The County of Santa Clara Public Health Department focuses on protecting and improving the health of communities through education, promotion of healthy lifestyles, disease and injury prevention, and the promotion of sound health policy. The Department is comprised of a highly diverse workforce that encompasses many professional disciplines and areas of focus. It’s mission is to prevent disease and injury and to create environments that promote and protect the community’s health.
FMCI is a community partnership that supports children from cradle to career through: 1) Hub Schools; 2) Safe and Strong Neighborhoods; and 3) Economic Development.
ECEPTS works to support the engagement of local, state, and federal partners to create a coalition of stakeholders invested in the professional development, economic well-being, and advancement of the ECE workforce.
The San Jose Public Library enriches lives by fostering lifelong learning and by ensuring that every member of the community has access to a vast array of ideas and information. Standards and guidelines have been developed to enable our staff to consistently and effectively provide quality customer assistance. The SJPL mission remains constant, to create bright, beautiful, inviting libraries, to provide patrons with materials with high customer service, and support a floor staff that provides teachable moments regarding services, equipment, account management, programs, and all our available resources.
KidConnections Network (KCN) is a partnership between Behavioral Health Services Department (BHSD) and FIRST 5 Santa Clara County. This partnership provides a unique opportunity in leveraging FIRST 5 funding to provide Birth – 5 services throughout Santa Clara County.
The West Valley-Mission Community College District unites West Valley and Mission Community Colleges in a shared vision of educational excellence where students representing diverse experiences and identities feel connected and supported in pursuit of their goals and aspirations.
The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors is the board of supervisors governing Santa Clara County, California. It is made of elected representatives from each of the county's five districts.