Boston Community Partnerships for Children

Mission Statement

The Boston Community Partnerships for Children's mission is to ensure access to a high quality early education expereince regardless of setting for all of Boston's children and their families.

To support our mission, we will:

• Provide leadership and a collective, local voice of experience about ther value of early education and its long-tern impact on our community.
• Advocate for children and families for the right to equal access to early care and education.
• Advocate for the early education and care workorce, icluding supporting and directing workforce members to opportunities for professional development.
• Collaborate together in an effort to strengthen and support Boston's early education community.
• Inform, share and promote best practices.
• Identify ways to support alternative settings for high educational expereices for children and their families.
• Promotes practices that value diversity to include, but not limited to, racial, linguistic, developmental, and economic differences.

At the core of our partnership, driving our goals, we value:

• Children
• Parents (and other primary caregivers) as equal partners
• Our workforce
• Diversity
• Inclusive Collaboration
• Social justice
• All members of the organization as equal partners
• A commitment to mutual respect for our partners and for each one's contributions.
• Best practices that are driven by data and research, and complemented by expereice, yet have the flexibility to adapt to diverse situations.
• Program evaluation and developmentally appropriate child assessments that optimize learning opportunities.

About the Boston Community Partnerships for Children:

The Community Partnerships for Children (CPC) Program in Boston helps parents of three and four year old children to pay for child care and helps child care providers achieve accreditation standards for quality of care. CPC brings together the early child care community in Boston to make child care better and more affordable.

Currently, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts gives Boston $9.8 million a year for the Community Partnership program. Boston uses 75% of its annual grant for subsidies that parents access through a participating provider. CPC uses a sliding fee scale to determine the amount each family will have to pay for subsidized care and education.

Boston’s CPC involves 75 private child care centers, 24 independent family child care providers, 10 family child care systems with 51 family child care providers and 19 Head Start centers. The number of providers varies each year depending on funding. Parents can find a CPC provider through Child Care Choices of Boston http://www.bostonabcd.org/cccb/ or they can call the CPC office for the names of CPC providers in their neighborhood.

Boston uses 25% of its annual grant to improve the quality of care offered by participating providers. All providers are welcome to join their neighborhood council to participate in CPC.

Boston’s CPC Governing Council has 28 members who are representatives of parents, public schools, Head Start Programs, private center-based preschool programs, family childcare systems and independent providers, and community based organizations that support preschools. The Boston Public Schools is the Lead Agent for Boston’s CPC program.

Click here for a history of the Boston CPC