Hope From the Start
Hope From the Start, a task force which formed in 2018 to focus on early childhood education, is composed of key community leaders from the education, health, faith, business, nonprofit, and local government sectors. Our goal is to create and support healthy behaviors and lifestyles through education, awareness, programming, and access to services. These key leaders continue to identify value in identifying and strengthening efforts to address health and health care needs from a collective perspective. Priorities identified: Access to Health Care, Nutrition, Physical Activity, Mental Health, Substance Use and Prevention; Early Childhood Education; and Adolescent Health.
Early Childhood Education
Hope From the Start is a collaboartive which works to increase the proportion of children who are ready for schools in all five domains of healthy development: physical development, social-emotional development, approaches to learning, language, and cognitive development. The task force is co-led by Franklin County Head Start and Franklin County Government. In addition to the Hope From the Start task force, The Early Childhood Partnership is a group of providers that meets monthly to discuss issues facing early childhood providers as well as share resources and knowledge.
For more information contact:
Hope From the Start:
Franklin County Head Start, Annette Searfoss at asearfoss@fchsweb.org or call 717-263-8019
Franklin County Government, Stacie Horvath at smhorvath@franklincountypa.gov or call 717-264-4125
Early Childhood Partnership:
United Way of Franklin County, Amy Hicks at office@uwfcpa.org or 717-262-0015
hope from the start
2018 meeting minutes
early childhood partnership
2018 meeting minutes
2017 meeting minutes
2018 meetings
United Way of Franklin County, 11am
- 3rd Monday of the month
Early Learning coaltion
2017 meeting minutes
2016 Meeting Minutes
2017 Meeting Dates
Chambersburg Chamber of Commerce, 8:00am
- 1st Friday of the month