
Strong Start Calaveras is part of a statewide Quality Counts California (QCC) initiative dedicated to supporting and improving the quality of early care and education throughout California. The goal of QCC is to ensure consistent high-quality early care and education experiences for California’s infants, toddlers, and preschool-aged children, whether in center-based or home-based programs.
Vision: Young children and their families in Calaveras County will have access to high-quality early learning opportunities in both public and private settings.
Mission: Early childhood education programs across a variety of learning settings in Calaveras County will strive for continual quality improvement.
Principles:
- The California Quality Rating Improvement System (QRIS) Framework will guide the planning and implementation of quality improvement efforts across multiple early learning settings in Calaveras County.
- Strong Start Calaveras Members will work collaboratively and will look for opportunities to share resources and training opportunities across programs and funding sources.
- Strong Start Calaveras efforts will include both publically funded and privately funded early childhood learning settings.
- Strong Start Calaveras will ensure that efforts toward quality improvements in early education settings are inclusive of all children.
- Strong Start Calaveras will focus on building sustainable efforts toward quality, through recognizing and building on existing strengths and resources.
- Strong Start Calaveras will direct their work toward strategic and creative efforts to blend, braid, and coordinate funding sources to build a stronger and more sustainable early quality improvement system.

Click the link above to learn more about QRIS efforts in California.
If you are a Calaveras childcare provider, please contact us at (209)754-6914 for more information on how to participate.