Exploring Roles in the ECE Community: Local and State Levels

Local/State Organizations

NC Child- http://www.ncchild.org

This organization is geared to helping children in terms of health, safety, well-educated, and economically secured communities that can inform and influence decision makers. This organization has reached more than 1.1 million children are enrolled in public health insurance programs due to the establishment of NC Health Choice. They have helped secure $2 million in additional funding for the NC Child Treatment Program, which serves children, adolescents, and families coping with serious psychological trauma or loss. Along with the passage of a comprehensive anti-bullying bill in 2009, all school districts in the state must implement and enforce an anti-bullying policy.

 

Learning Together- http://www.learningtogether.org/

This organization is a center in which inclusion of all individuals, no matter the disability, is incorporated. This center represents special needs children along with informing and practicing methods that incorporated essential developmental skills needed for life. During 1981, they moved to the Dorothea Dix Hospital campus to help individual students with developmental delays. From then on they have produced a means of helping children who need just a little more special attention.

 

Prevent Child Abuse-NC http://www.preventchildabusenc.org/

 

This organization, also known as PCANC, is the only statewide organization dedicated to the prevention of child abuse and neglect. Through investment in innovative programs proven to prevent child maltreatment before it occurs, PCANC works with North Carolina’s communities to help build safe, stable, nurturing, and healthy relationships for all children.  Whereas their motto “

WE CAN ALL HELP NC CHILDREN HAVE A HAPPY, HEALTHY CHILDHOOD” remains as an important slogan captivating on taking action for each child and producing a means of promoting positivity along with having the envision of  a future without child abuse and neglect, where every child grows up to achieve his or her dream

Job Opportunities:

Child Care Administrator-The Goddard School

   -Standard Licensure

  - Administrator License III

  - 2 years of teaching experience

Adjunct Professor-Peace University

    -Masters Degree or at least 18 semester hours within the applied field

   -NC Teaching Licensure

  -2 years of Teaching Experience