Prepares local infants, toddlers and preschool-aged children for lifelong success through access to quality early learning programs. Serving more than 4,000 children and 175 providers every year, the Coalition administers and oversees the local integrated system of early care and education across Sarasota County. This includes using state and local funds to provide financial scholarships to income-eligible families and administering the free, state-funded Voluntary Pre-Kindergarten (VPK) programs for all 4 year olds. The ELC offers professional development, training and coaching to teachers as well as provides a variety of educational resources to parents. From Children Who Read Succeed to Bucket of Books, the ELC also manages large-scale, comprehensive early literacy programs both in the classroom and the community.
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(941) 954-4830, Building L
Real estate is one of the greatest costs in a business budget. Our partnership with the Glasser Schoenbaum Human Services Center allows more money to go towards our mission. And what better place to house our office than on a campus with nineteen other outreach agencies.
The Glasser/Schoenbaum Human Services Center empowers non-profits to closely network with other agencies and create synergistic energy towards the life changing opportunities we all want for our clients and those in our community.
Real estate is one of the greatest costs in a business budget. Our partnership with the Glasser Schoenbaum Human Services Center allows more money to go towards our mission. And what better place to house our office than on a campus with nineteen other outreach agencies.
We are a small and young organization and having the ability to network and partner with other community organizations is key to the quality and impact of our work. In addition to the affordable space that The Glasser/Schoenbaum Human Services Center provides to all of us, it inspires us to use this collaborative model as we work to empower our students and their families.
I can't fully express how wonderful it is to take a client by the hand and walk them no more than a couple hundred feet from our office to another agency that can help them when they are in crisis.
As a small organization with a staff of two, employee safety was a big consideration when we were looking for office space. We did not want our employees to be in a place where they were alone. Being on the GSHSC campus has been great because there is a whole community of like-minded professionals.
