DCCYC Steering Committee Members

DeKalb County Regional Office of Education (backbone organization)
DeKalb County Community Foundation (Co-chair)
Community members (Co-chair)
DeKalb County Health Department
DeKalb County Mental Health Board
4-C: Coordinated Community Child Care
Trauma-informed Committee Co-chairs
Coordinated Intake for Home Visiting
Educators
For a comprehensive history of DCCYC, please visit here.
For more information about collective impact visit here.

Partner Committees

Kindergarten Readiness Toolkit Grants

Kindergarten Readiness Toolkit Grants provide resources that 
schools distribute to incoming kindergartners and their families to build skills. All school districts in DeKalb County are eligible to apply for a grant here.

Basics Ambassadors

Basics Ambassadors is a partner committee of champions for Basics DeKalb County. These ambassadors brainstorm ways to increase awareness of Basics DeKalb County. They are tasked with promoting Basics in their spheres of influence to further community saturation.

Educator Vertical Alignment

The strategy of this partner committee is to provide professional development and 
networking opportunities to educators along the early learning continuum. 

Family Council

The Family Council is a group of parents and caregivers from each school district in DeKalb County. The purpose is to partner with DCCYC in planning, implementing, and evaluating the strategies of the collaborative to support families and the community in preparing our children for kindergarten and life success.
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Child Care Sites

This partner committee has a goal of increasing capacity or available seats in child care.  Moreover, this committee wants to support currently licensed child care providers to increase their ExceleRate quality rating.  

Community and School Alignment

This partner committee focuses on strategies to better align the early learning continuum from birth to 3rd grade. 

Trauma-informed Committee

This partner committee advocates for and supports a system of care, specifically mental health care, for our youngest residents in DeKalb County. 

Home Visiting

This partner committee advocates for and supports the coordinated intake system for home visiting with the goal of increasing enrollment in home visiting.