Chatham-Savannah Youth Futures Authority

The 2016 Youth Futures Authority Internship Program applicants receive their job assignments earlier this week.

Congratulations to these YFA -YCares grant recipients. These child care providers have applied to become Quality Rated by the State of Georgia. Pleazant Place, Simply Start Smart, Davis Little Blessings, Adorable Angels and Desiree Chisolm.

TEEN MAZE 2014 will be held at the National Guard Armory on Eisenhower Dr. September 29th beginning at 5:30 PM for community and parents September 30th thru October 2nd for all Eight grade students in Chatham County. The Teen Maze is a life size interactive exercise where youth and teenagers are the pawns and life’s choices are the dice. It is designed to help youth and teens a better understand potential outcomes to life decisions. Realistic scenarios help teens navigate their way through the Maze and find out about consequences of behaviors.

Early childhood development that includes quality early learning opportunities to ensure more children are school ready is one of the key advocacy areas of the Chatham-Savannah Youth Futures Authority (YFA). In an effort to promote this awareness, as well as engage more child care providers in the process of becoming Quality Rated, the YFA Cares pilot mini-grant was implemented. By targeting licensed, registered and compliant child care providers and facilities, the YFA Car...es mini-grant provides cash incentives to encourage them to apply to be Quality Rated and embark on the process of becoming a Quality Rated facility. T YFA is pleased to announce that the first recipient of the cash incentives from the mini-grant is Ms. Tiniki Harris of Tiniki’s Learning Center. Ms. Harris received the second cash incentive during a Quality Rated/YFA Cares orientation session held on August 23, 2014. Ms. Katrina Chance with the Early Start: Child Care Resource and Referral (CCR&R) of Southeast Georgia conducted the orientation and training session, and helped to motivate child care providers to get onboard with Quality Rated.