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October 2020 COVID-19 continues to challenge Preschools and child care programs. Many still areoperating at reduced capacity, creating tremendous financial burdens for theseessential, low-margin businesses. Administrators and teachers are doing truly heroicthings to keep serving families who want their children learning in-person or whomust be at a job site and don’t have the option of keeping their children at home. We are so humbled by these woefully underappreciated and underpaid professionalswho keep finding safe and creative ways to ensure children are nurtured andcontinuing to learn under incredibly stressful and uncertain conditions. We can’t thank them enough for all they do!

Robyn Lightcap Executive Director

We’ve rolled out a new free initiative — Preschool Promise PLUS — for families of4-year-olds who are not ready to return to in-person learning, or who are concernedthat their child may not be able to consistently attend Preschool this year. Morefamilies are signing up every day! Families who join Preschool Promise PLUS receive a tablet (and a small data plan ifneeded); a year-long subscription to the fun learning app ABC Mouse; a Book-of-the-Month; a monthly Play Box with learning materials; and a monthly postcard withKindergarten Readiness tips — all for FREE! Preschool Promise PLUS was designed to respond to the needs of families during theCOVID-19 crisis. Any family in Montgomery County whose 4-year-old is in their lastyear of Preschool before Kindergarten can join — regardless of whether their child isactually attending Preschool in-person and even if they’ve chosen a Preschool thatdoes not partner with Preschool Promise. Families who are enrolled in PreschoolPromise and whose children attend one of our 88 partner Preschools receive all of thePreschool Promise PLUS benefits and are eligible to receive tuition assistance ifthey’re not already receiving free Preschool. Preschool Promise is only able to assistfamilies for one year. Families with questions about their application and eligibility should email

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questions@preschoolpromise.org or call (937)329-2700. We are distributing tablets as quicklyas possible. Please be patient as we work to meetthe overwhelming response! Finally, if you know a family in MontgomeryCounty who has a 4-year-old child, encouragethem to go to PreschoolPromise.org to learn moreand enroll. We can’t let children lose a year of learningbecause of COVID-19!

Community partners are helping make our themed monthly Play Boxes for PreschoolPromise PLUS families engaging and fun. Developed with ideas from early learningprofessionals, the Play Box activities are designed to help young learners witheverything from math and science to art and movement. September’s Play Box theme was super heroes and Back to School. Muse Machinegenerously created a video inviting children to get up and move. Every monthwe’ll share a new video where families and Preschoolers can sing and read along, andpractice Kindergarten readiness skills using their Play Boxes. All videos will bearchived at PreschoolPromise.org and on our Facebook page and YouTubechannel. PNC Grow Up Great donated Learn atHome kits, which include art supplies forfall fun in October, and activity bookswith additional learning materials forDecember. In November, the K-12Gallery and TEJAS will lead children inan activity designed to thank theirteachers. Dayton Children’s HospitalCommunity Teaching Kitchen willhost a cooking activity in December. Thank you to these creative andgenerous organizations!

So many organizations are working to support young children and ensure they startKindergarten on track even in the face of COVID-19!

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Thank you:

Dayton Metro Library, which selects age-appropriate Books-of-the-Month forPreschool Promise families and their children’s teachers. Librarians also provideengaging questions to encourage conversation and promote children’s verbalskills.Five Rivers MetroParks, which is providing activities and ideas to child carecenters to help children love and learn in nature.Boonshoft Museum of Discovery, which is hosting events and providing freepasses for us to distribute to Preschool Promise families. (Masks are required,and the museum is operating at limited capacity to keep visitors sociallydistanced and safe.)PNC Grow Up Great, which is providing funding and learning materials forfamilies in need.

Thank you to the multiple child careprograms that are hosting virtualtours of their centers for candidatesrunning for political office. We’reinviting all Montgomery Countycandidates running for Ohio Houseand Senate seats to join in a virtualtour of a child care program. Last month we participated in thevirtual visit with State RepresentativePhil Plummer at Dayton Children'sHospital Child Care Center. As of thisnewsletter's release we have confirmed discussions with candidates Niraj Antani,Willis Blackshear Jr., Andrea White and Tom Young. Thank you, On PurposeAcademy and Mentoring Center, Good Shepherd Academy, and WenzlerDaycare and Learning Center for hosting these important events. We are excitedto set up visits with all of the other candidates!

We want our leaders to see up close all that child care professionals aredoing to keep children and staff safe and why it’s so critical to support theindustry with federal and state funding. These discussions are a greatchance for candidates to hear and learn from from these truly essentialworkers.

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Montgomery County Commissioners Judy Dodge, Debbie Lieberman andCarolyn Rice, along with other Montgomery County leaders and PNC Grow UpGreat, are prioritizing support for child care by providing grants to help centers andfamilies.

The Montgomery County Office of CARES Act is dedicating $5 million fromthe federal CARES Act to help programs. Eligible programs can receive up to$30,000. In September, Preschool Promise hosted a webinar about the grants, andwe’re offering centers consulting help with their grant applications.

PNC Grow Up Great, along with The Frank M. Tait Foundation and The COVID-19 Response Fund of Greater Dayton, awarded Preschool Promise funding thatwill be passed on to child care programs and Preschools that must temporarily closein the event of a COVID-19 exposure. Even when a program or classroom is closed,programs still have fixed expenses and must continue to pay their staff. Thank you toall of these partners for helping to keep programs financially sound.

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