For Ages Birth – 5

Child Development

 

The Children’s Collective, Inc. provides a developmentally appropriate program that promotes school readiness, encourages a positive sense of self-worth, meets children’s nutritional needs, addresses family health and social service needs, and engages parents, schools and communities in its implementation.

 

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Kids eating in a food program
For ALL AGES

Food Program

 

The Food Program works with our Child Development department to provide healthy meals and snacks to both infant/toddler and preschool programs at TCCI. All meals emphasize fresh fruits and vegetables, with limited salt and saturated fats. TCCI serves more than 225,000 breakfasts, lunches, and snacks each year.

 

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For Newborns and parents

Black Infant Health

 

The Children’s Collective, Inc.’s Black Infant Health Program (BIH) is designed to reduce the high infant mortality rate among African American babies, as well as reduce the high death rate from pregnancy complications among African American women.

 

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Happy toddler walking
For ALL AGES

FamilySource Center

 

The FamilySource Center addresses two key issues that keep families in poverty – low adult income and low student achievement. Its first goal aims to increase adult income in order to help families attain financial self-sufficiency and stability. The program’s second goal improves student achievement in order to provide youth with better opportunities for education and employment.

 

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For ALL AGES

CalFresh Healthy
Living

 

The CalFresh Healthy Living (CFHL) program provides various nutrition and physical activity resources for TCCI’s preschool sites. The program provides fresh produce distributions to enrolled families each month. CFHL also helps our sites use Smarter Mealtimes strategies to encourage kids to eat and try more fruits and vegetables.

 

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Kid learning about vegetables