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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.