Horry County Schools Family Literacy Centers offer free early child care & early education for the children of parents who are attending adult education classes!
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Click here to apply online: 2023-2024 Childcare Application
Locations:
Conway Education Center:
1620 Sherwood Drive, Conway 29526
Myrtle Beach Adult Education:
3301 N Oak Street, Myrtle Beach 29577
Monday - Friday, 8 am - 12 noon
Ages: 6 weeks-5 years old (not enrolled in school)
Required documents are birth certificate(s) and vaccination record(s)
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Core Message
Horry County Schools’ Family Literacy Center program is designed to provide comprehensive, long-term educational services for parents and their preschool children to make sustainable changes in family/literacy, by integrating parenting, interactive literacy activities, early childhood education, and adult education/literacy. Each participant is a full partner in the educational process and setting their goals. The center offers weekly Interactive Literacy Activities, weekly parenting classes and bi-weekly visits with the Parent-Child Home program. |
Program Mission Statement
To increase educational opportunities for community/family members that will improve their employability skills, raise their educational levels, improve parenting skills, improve school readiness in preschool children and thus, improve the quality of life for families. |
Family Learning Center Goals
- Strengthen parent involvement in the learning process of preschool children birth through five years and therefore create a continued parental process.
- Encourage parents to be fully participating partners in their child’s education starting at birth and continuing throughout the child’s school years.
- Promote school readiness of preschool children.
- Provide parents with developmental information about their preschool children and assist parents in planning for the upcoming stages of development.
- Assess children for developmental milestones.
- Refer children for vision, hearing, and speech screenings.
- Encourage educational parent and child together time by modeling, instructing and guiding.
- Offer parents opportunities to improve their literacy skills and education.
- Increase parent involvement in the educational process of the child.
- Enhance parenting skills.
- Partner with community agencies to provide families with the resources they need to raise children who are ready to learn.
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Family Literacy Sites
Horry County Schools' Family Learning Centers offer free early child care and early education for the children of parents who are attending adult education classes.
- The Family Literacy Centers are open to anyone aged 17 and older who wishes to attend Adult Education classes and who has a child from six weeks to five years of age.
- The Family Literacy Center is comprised of four components: Adult Education, Early Childhood Education, Parenting, and Parent & Child Together Time.
- Educational childcare is available for parents who are participating in Adult Education.
- Educational childcare is available only on days that the adult education centers are open.
- The educational child care is free; however, parents must participate in Parenting classes, Parent & Child Together Time and Home Visits.
- A menu of parenting classes is available at the Conway and Myrtle Beach Education Centers to help educate and support moms and dads in their parenting roles such as; developing early literacy skills, Motheread, toddler tips, nutrition, and health and safety.
- Parent & Child Together Time is offered weekly with instructional activities encouraging the parent to become the child’s first teacher.
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For more information contact:
Horry County Schools Adult and Community Education
1620 Sherwood Drive
Conway, SC 29526
(843) 488-6200
(843) 488-6201 FAX
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