Support for Families

Burke County Smart Start works with many different local agencies who provide services to children and families and works to identify needed programs and services as well as resources to meet those needs. Often, programs exist but are not being utilized. Sometimes duplication of services are noted. The Partnership was formed to eliminate those duplications and fill the voids in the service delivery system.

By blending and leveraging existing resources and providing funding through Smart Start, the programs below are made possible to the young children of Burke County:

Burke Family Literacy Programs

This agency promotes literacy and English as a Second Language (ESL) to parents of children birth to five. Additionally, the Motheread program is provided to families of children prenatal to five.

Contact:  Browning Rochefort, Burke County Literacy Council, 828-437-7477.

Burke County Smart Start works with many different local agencies who provide services to children and families and works to identify needed programs and services as well as resources to meet those needs. Often, programs exist but are not being utilized. Sometimes duplication of services are noted. The Partnership was formed to eliminate those duplications and fill the voids in the service delivery system.

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is dedicated to inspiring a love of reading by gifting books free of charge to children from birth to age five, through funding shared by Dolly Parton and local community partners in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia and Republic of Ireland.

Contact:  Vickie Deal, Burke County Smart Start, 828-439-2326.