By founding board member, Sylvia Echols About 1994, a group of folks came to a large gathering at the Rock Hill School District office for an informational breakfast. Representatives from the Alliance for SC Children presented a program about the dismal status of...
The month of October ended on a busy note for ELP! In addition to our usual meetings and book distribution, we were involved in a fundraiser held by Main Street Bottle Shop in which books and cash donations were collected. The guys at MSB generously donated a...
The Early Learning Partnership was invited to participate in the Sylvia Circle Family Resource Center Fall Festival last weekend, where we gave away free books and snacks to kids and parents. The children enjoyed choosing their own stories to read from the bins of...
The Early Learning Partnership gathered last week for our annual board retreat, held this year in the Williams Family Multicultural Children’s Literacy Collaborative room on Winthrop campus. Board members showed their knowledge of facts and history about our...
The Early Learning Partnership is pleased to introduce our new team! Rachel Hui-Hubbard, Executive Director, has been with ELP since 2017 as the Program Coordinator. She brings with her corporate management experience in the areas of project management, quality...
After 22 years of hard work and dedication, we bid a fond farewell to our Executive Director, Teresa Creech. While we are sad to see Teresa go, we are also excited for her new opportunity: working directly with young families with children across South Carolina for...
Rock Hill mom Randi Taylor got her boys excited about going to the doctor for a well checkup when they learned they would receive a book to read. During the family’s first Rock Hill Pediatrics visit with Dr. Martha Edwards, Taylor recalls, “she gave each of the boys a...
When Catherine Faircloth took her young children to the pediatrician for a well check, the office visit always began with a book. “The book is such a critical piece of that first 90 seconds of the visit,” said Faircloth, the mother of three daughters. “It changes the...
Pediatricians and other medical providers say sharing a book with a young patient during an office appointment helps them build a relationship. And parents are thrilled to get new books to read to their children. Such is the feedback that program coordinator...
Wise, collaborative, diverse, compassionate, nurturing and eager. These are a few of the words that board members and staff with the Early Learning Partnership of York County brainstormed to describe the organization and its mission as they gathered for its 2021...
Dawn Mendoza began reading to her two daughters a couple of times each week when they were still in the womb. She continued to read the same books to the girls, now 16 and 19 years old, after they were born. Mendoza, a pediatric occupational therapist for more than...
NaTasha McNeil remembers her first visits to Rock Hill Pediatrics with her preschool boys after the family relocated to Rock Hill. Their pediatrician brought out a children’s book and read a few pages to her youngest son. Her son loved the book, and was eager to turn...
Retired preschool teacher Mary Watson knows how important it is for children to gain a foundation for learning before they start school. Watson, who taught kindergarten at Winthrop University’s MacFeat Early Childhood Laboratory School in Rock Hill for more than 30...
LIsa-Anne Williams sees books as an avenue for parents who read with their children to learn more about them. “For parents, that’s a chance to get to know your child, to see their strengths and learn what they are really interested in, and develop that mutual...
Pediatrician Dr. Martha Edwards says that sometimes, handing a book to a child can be “a more important tool for me than my stethoscope.” Edwards, a physician with Rock Hill Pediatrics and medical director for the South Carolina Reach Out and Read, said that...