Spring 2015
A Publication of Child Care Aware® of Missouri
Virtual Child Care Business Center Wins Youthbridge/Skandalaris
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Center Social Enterprise Competition
(www.showmeresource.com) online web portal that launched at the
n April 9th, 2015 Child beginning of March. Show Me
Care Aware® of
Child Care Resources offers a “one
Missouri won $25,000 in the
-stop shop” online that allows
Youthbridge/Skandalaris Center
program owners and directors to
Social Enterprise competition, for its shop for deep discounts on
Child Care Aware® of Missouri to
Virtual Child Care Business Center
commonly used products and
concept.
services.
Participate in the 2nd Give STL Day!
The Virtual Child Care Business
In future years, additional tiers of
to help make donation
Center is designed to foster business service—including shared backdollars go even further!
planning and entrepreneurial
office supports, professional
ay 5th kicks
thinking, as well as provide business development, and business training
Follow Child Care Aware®
off the 2nd
management support, for early care and coaching— will be added.
of Missouri on Facebook
Annual Give STL Day.
and education programs. Building
and Twitter for the most
The $25,000 awarded to Child Care The event includes 24
upon the work by national thought
up-to-date information
Aware® of Missouri was made
hours of giving and is
leaders in child care financing, such possible by the Lutheran
sponsored by the Greater AND….
as Louise Stoney, the Virtual Child
Foundation of St. Louis. This was St. Louis Community
Care Business Center educates about the 10th year for the Skandalaris
Foundation to promote
and provides support for shared
Center/Youthbridge Social
Mark your calendars to
philanthropy.
services business models. These new enterprise competition, which is
donate to Child Care
models create economies of scale
Throughout the day there
open to both Washington
Aware® of Missouri.
that strengthen their outcomes both University students and social
will also be prizes and
programmatically and financially.
incentives awarded
entrepreneurs from the
M
The Virtual Child Care Business
Center offers three ties of services
that will be rolled out over the next
five years. The first tier of service is
the Show Me Child Care
Resources
community. Since the inception of
the program, it has awarded more
than $1.2 million to more than 40
winning social ventures.
www.givestlday.org
MAY 5th
Executive Notes
Dr. L. Carol Scott ●Chief Executive Officer
The Future is Bright
I live in Missouri for the
seasons. Truly, I love the
changes and find something
beautiful in each of our four
strikingly different times of year.
One favorite aspect of Spring is
the atmosphere of newness, of
birth and rebirth. That fresh
feeling invites the mind to
innovate, to invent, to create….
State Network Staff
Dr. L Carol Scott
Chief Executive Officer
Kelsey Blackman
Resource Specialist
Cindy Dehner
Director of Training
Megan-Ellyia Green
Chief of Data and Communications
Joyce Hoffman
Accounting Specialist
Megan Klenke
Director of Wellness Initiatives
Sue Kuda
Resource Specialist
Beth Ann Lang
Chief of Quality Improvement/
T.E.A.C.H MISSOURI Scholarship
Director
Shelly Lock
Director of Program Services
Melissa McAlpine
T.EA.C.H MISSOURI Program Specialist
Jonni McCaslin
Network Training Coordinator
Penny Mosher
T.E.A.C.H MISSOURI Program Manager
Misty O’Keefe
Chief Operating Officer
Katie Orf
Resource Specialist
Janet Robison
Assistant Director of Program Services
Emily Sims
Resource Specialist
And that’s us, all over!!
We are birthing new, award-winning
programs and services that will change the
face of early care and education (ECE) in
Missouri. We are creating a new vision of
how we “do the business” that is ECE,
adding models that strengthen programs
and improve outcomes for children. Why?
Because every new babe who comes into
the world reminds us that quality infant
care is in short supply everywhere in the
state. Every new infant born reminds us
that, even where available, quality infant
care is largely un-affordable, with an
annual cost higher than for a college
education.
And now the joy of human birth is visiting
us “up close and personal,” as one of our
staff members returns to work after
bringing a new child into our world. I
watch this new family piecing together an
ECE solution and am truly sobered. Even
with the “inside track,” as an employee at
an agency that provides child care referrals
and consumer education to parents all
over the state, our colleague is not
especially advantaged in her search. All she
and her spouse want is to continue their
careers, comfortable and at peace with
how their newborn is spending his day…
and that reality is not easy to create.
With the fresh, new, birthing energy of
this season, join us in our invention of a
new vision for ECE, by literally joining
our latest innovation – subscribe to Show
Me Child Care Resources today. No matter
what your role, in no matter what type of
ECE program, at showmeresource.org you
will find resources to meet your needs.
Tips, tools, and templates for managing an
ECE business of any size are available
alongside resources for the classroom
teacher. Community chat groups give you
a venue in which to ask questions relevant
to you, and to gather the best thinking of
your peers. Best of all, deep discounts on
commonly-purchased supplies will save
you more than the annual subscription…
and then some!
Come spring ahead with us!
Sincerely,
Dr. L. Carol Scott
CEO
Professional Development
1000 Executive Parkway Drive, Suite 103
St. Louis, MO 63141-6369
800-200-9017 ● www.mo.childcareaware.org
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