Child & Family Services Early Care & Education Programs
Ceres High School, 1325 H Street, Modesto, CA 95354
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Child & Family Services Early Care & Education Programs offers early childhood education programs and child development services along with family support services. The program provides teacher and family training on incorporating daily physical activity into schedules and on healthy cooking. It also offers courses on CPR/First Aid and an 8-hour Preventive Health & Safety course and recruits, trains, and retains licensed family child care providers.
• Ages: 0–13 years old
The Stanislaus County Office of Education’s Child & Family Services Division was established with the mission to provide the foundational resources and services children ages 0–5 need to become lifelong learners. Child & Family Services states that its mission is to create opportunities, impact lives, and unite communities by educating children, supporting parents, and developing professionals. CFS provides early childhood education programs to 9,300 children and 7,200 families across eight California counties with 168 classes within 78 early childhood education centers and 111 directly contracted licensed Family Child Care Homes. The program partners with a local farmer to provide children with fresh and locally grown fruits and vegetables.
The program provides early, continuous, intensive, and comprehensive child development and family support services to infants and toddlers and their families, and to pregnant women and their families. It also provides early, continuous, intensive, and comprehensive child development and family support services to infants, toddlers, preschool children, and their families. Head Start within these programs provides early, continuous, intensive, and comprehensive child development and family support services to preschool children and their families. Early Head Start is a program for pregnant women and families with infants and toddlers and is offered in child care centers and as a home-based program.
The program provides a comprehensive, coordinated, and cost-effective system of child care and development services for children from infancy to thirteen years of age and their parents. It offers part-day and full-day preschool services for children ages 3–5 who live in Madera, Merced, and Stanislaus Counties. It helps families arrange child care services and makes payment for those services directly to the child care provider selected by the family.
The program supports improved diets of children under 13 years of age by providing nutritious, well-balanced meals and by helping children develop good eating habits that will last through later years. It provides teacher and family training on incorporating daily physical activity into schedules and on healthy cooking. It provides reimbursements and offers courses on CPR/First Aid and the Preventive Health & Safety 8-hour course to eligible persons, as funds are available.
Child & Family Services supports the planning and implementation of Universal Prekindergarten in partnership with 10 consortia-member school districts across Stanislaus County. It provides financial incentives for early educators, including family, friends, and neighbors who care for children ages 0–5 in Stanislaus County. The program supports and ensures that children with disabilities have a greater rate of enrollment in inclusive, subsidized early learning and care programs, increases access to inclusive programs for children with a broad range of disabilities and support needs, and provides individualized and necessary supports to enable children to meet high expectations within early learning and care settings. The Area Served for the Inclusive Early Education and Expansion Program is Stanislaus County. It also improves the training capacity of the Child Care Resource & Referral program and enhances professional development activities.
Last updated April 1, 2026.
• Ages: 0–13 years old
The Stanislaus County Office of Education’s Child & Family Services Division was established with the mission to provide the foundational resources and services children ages 0–5 need to become lifelong learners. Child & Family Services states that its mission is to create opportunities, impact lives, and unite communities by educating children, supporting parents, and developing professionals. CFS provides early childhood education programs to 9,300 children and 7,200 families across eight California counties with 168 classes within 78 early childhood education centers and 111 directly contracted licensed Family Child Care Homes. The program partners with a local farmer to provide children with fresh and locally grown fruits and vegetables.
The program provides early, continuous, intensive, and comprehensive child development and family support services to infants and toddlers and their families, and to pregnant women and their families. It also provides early, continuous, intensive, and comprehensive child development and family support services to infants, toddlers, preschool children, and their families. Head Start within these programs provides early, continuous, intensive, and comprehensive child development and family support services to preschool children and their families. Early Head Start is a program for pregnant women and families with infants and toddlers and is offered in child care centers and as a home-based program.
The program provides a comprehensive, coordinated, and cost-effective system of child care and development services for children from infancy to thirteen years of age and their parents. It offers part-day and full-day preschool services for children ages 3–5 who live in Madera, Merced, and Stanislaus Counties. It helps families arrange child care services and makes payment for those services directly to the child care provider selected by the family.
The program supports improved diets of children under 13 years of age by providing nutritious, well-balanced meals and by helping children develop good eating habits that will last through later years. It provides teacher and family training on incorporating daily physical activity into schedules and on healthy cooking. It provides reimbursements and offers courses on CPR/First Aid and the Preventive Health & Safety 8-hour course to eligible persons, as funds are available.
Child & Family Services supports the planning and implementation of Universal Prekindergarten in partnership with 10 consortia-member school districts across Stanislaus County. It provides financial incentives for early educators, including family, friends, and neighbors who care for children ages 0–5 in Stanislaus County. The program supports and ensures that children with disabilities have a greater rate of enrollment in inclusive, subsidized early learning and care programs, increases access to inclusive programs for children with a broad range of disabilities and support needs, and provides individualized and necessary supports to enable children to meet high expectations within early learning and care settings. The Area Served for the Inclusive Early Education and Expansion Program is Stanislaus County. It also improves the training capacity of the Child Care Resource & Referral program and enhances professional development activities.
Last updated April 1, 2026.
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