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All children, families, and communities thrive.

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NWIR focuses on helping children and family through a variety of programs and services.

Early Learning Resource Center

The ELRC provides a single point-of-contact for families, ECE professionals and communities to get information and access services that support high-quality child care and early learning programs.

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JAM Team Foundation

The JAM Team Foundation’s mission is to support a vibrant community and productive workforce by providing access to holistic early learning environments.

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ECE Learning Alliance

The ECE Learning Alliance is a network of early childhood education providers who work together to share information, resources, workload and costs with our member organizations.

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The ITCS pilot program is an alternative to the traditional voucher system focused on fiscal stability for ECE providers.

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PDO@PASSHE

NWIR partners with the ECE Professional Development Organization at the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) to offer Child Development Associate (CDA) courses.

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Wonderschool

NWIR partners with Wonderschool to help families find high-quality child care, while strengthening the business, coaching, communication and marketing tools available to ECE providers.

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Identogo

NWIR offers state fingerprinting services for employment, volunteering, coaching, etc. Please visit www.identogo.com to learn more.

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Sesame Street in Communities

NWIR, through ELRC Region 1, has partnered with WQLN, Northwest Tri-County IU5 and CPB to offer Sesame Street in Communities to our region.

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PDG Rapid Response Team

Rapid Response Teams support a grassroots and collaborative approach to provide a cross-sector team for ECE programs that are facing challenging behaviors from children.

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All children, families, and communities thrive.

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Early Learning Resource Center

JAM Team Foundation

ECE Learning Alliance

Infant Toddler Contracted Slots

PDO@PASSHE

Wonderschool

Identogo

Sesame Street in Communities

PDG Rapid Response Team

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Our Core Values

NWIR is committed to a set of core values, the foundation of which is T.H.R.I.V.E.

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