Prince George's Child Resource Center, Inc.

PGCRC envisions vibrant, healthy communities where individuals and families care, support, and advocate for each other and invest in creating opportunities for children to thrive. We strive for quality and accessible child care; strong families; connected and informed community; and integrated, community-focused policies and practices. In the coming three to five years, we are working toward these outcomes for the community by advancing the following goals:

1. Cultivate and maintain a cadre of proficient, reliable, and professional child care providers serving children and their families in Prince George's County.
2. Facilitate an improved connection among and between PGCRC families to ultimately increase their ability to provide mutually beneficial support for one another.
3. Coordinate a collaborative, seamless set of services provided to families in Prince George's County.
4. Enrich the lives of staff, board members, families, and child care providers by introducing them to diverse ways of living meaningful, productive lives.
5. Be recognized as the primary expert in the field and act as an influential voice advocating on behalf of child care providers and families in Prince George's County.
6. Diversify funding sources to increase unrestricted revenue and build the capacity of the PGCRC programs.
7. Build and maximize the skills, ability, and capacity of the human capital of PGCRC.

Each of the above goals has multiple objectives, with milestones, laid out in a comprehensive implementation plan that will carry us through 2021. PGCRC is building awareness and community capacity to achieve these goals in multiple ways:

Each of the above goals has multiple objectives, with milestones, laid out in a comprehensive implementation plan that will carry us through 2021. PGCRC is building awareness and community capacity to achieve these goals in multiple ways:
• First, we are educating child care providers and parents to improve the quality, effectiveness, and appropriateness of their care for children.
• Second, we are coaching child care providers in developing and implementing organizational practices that ensure quality care, regulatory compliance, and equitable access to child care for our community.
• Third, we are connecting family members with community support systems that enable them to thrive as parents and community members.
• Fourth, we are providing case management services to individual families, as well as referrals to family support systems and resources within our community.
• Finally, we are mobilizing community resources and assets through public engagement, organizing, community education, and policy advocacy.

PGCRC's programs are rooted in the belief that all families, regardless of economic means, have strengths, and that support programs should build on those strengths and empower them to become self-sufficient and thrive. Guided by this belief, PGCRC provides direct supportive services for families as well as training and technical assistance for child care providers. We also work to advance systemic improvements in child care through our advocacy program and close collaborations with county agencies. All of our services are free, including on-site child care, and many programs include free door-to-door transportation as well. Our programs are designed according to best practices that have been shown to address root causes of poverty while also adapting to meet the changing needs of the region.

One long-standing programmatic goal is to expand family support services to other parts of Prince George's County by opening a second family support center. Currently, our Family Support Center provides comprehensive services to a 10 square mile radius of primarily Hispanic families. We have conducted a needs assessment and determined that there are inner beltway communities, primarily African-American, that need the family support services we provide. We are seeking funding to open this second location.