JumpStart Tulsa   A Smart Start Oklahoma Community Partnership

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Let's work together to make sure all children in Tulsa County enter school healthy and ready to succeed!

JumpStart is Tulsa's early childhood community engagement campaign.  It's an initiative of the Tulsa County Partnership for Early Childhood Success -- part of Smart Start Oklahoma, our state's partnership for school readiness.

For years, committed Tulsans have provided leadership and helped guide progress for early childhood success, locally and at the state level.  JumpStart and the Tulsa County Partnership are the next step.  Join us!  

Please visit this website often to learn more about:

• JumpStart/the Tulsa County Partnership for Early Childhood Success;
  PowerPoint and "Ready Or Not" brochure
• Smart Start Oklahoma, Oklahoma's statewide early childhood partnership
• Find helpful community services, child care, and training and support for child care providers
• The importance of positive early childhood development for children and for our community's future
• Early brain development, school readiness and early literacy
• Mind in the Making PowerPoint, website
• Child development and what parents and caregivers can do to "jump-start" a lifetime of success
• For parents:  classes, programs and events
• Learn more!  Information and resources online ... Data: Tulsa's youngest children ... Oklahoma Emergency Guidelines for Schools 2008
• Early childhood events
• The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study
• Local news stories and editorials on early childhood issues
• Ways to get involved, volunteer, and make a difference for young children
• Support JumpStart

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•  FEATURED EVENTS:  
  
   International Infant and Toddler Conference  in Tulsa April 23-25, 2009  More
  
  Finding Your Smile Again:  Taking Care of Yourself While Taking Care of Children - Tulsa's Fall Early Childhood Conference - Saturday, October 4, 2008 - Tulsa, OK  More

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  Photos from Dr. T. Berry Brazelton's visit to Tulsa May 1 & 2

  Looking back:  past Leadership Forums and other early childhood events

"Tulsa is really a standard-bearer for the state.  Other communities out there are looking to Tulsa to see what is happening here."  - Oklahoma First Lady Kim Henry

CONTACT JumpStart Tulsa, the Tulsa Community Partnership for Early Childhood Success!
c/o the Community Service Council of Greater Tulsa
16 East 16th Street, Suite 202  -  Tulsa, Oklahoma 74119
918 / 585-5551 phone  -  918 / 585-3285 fax

Email Jan Figart for more information about JumpStart and the Tulsa Partnership
Email Sharon Clark with website suggestions and questions

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