Sound Child Care Solutions

Established in 2006, Sound Child Care Solutions (SCCS) is the first early learning shared services consortium in Seattle. We create high quality, culturally relevant education for all children through the collaboration of early learning centers. Through a consortium concept aimed at addressing challenges faced by independent centers, SCCS started with one classroom serving 17 children and now, we operate 11 programs with 10 center locations serving 450 children annually. A leader in the provision of early childhood education, SCCS humbly requests a general operating grant in support of optimizing central office functions and expanding access to affordable early learning while sustaining critical programs and services.

SCCSs core work is to alleviate the opportunity gap between children who receive high quality, culturally relevant education and those who dont. This gap disproportionately impacts children of color and families experiencing financial insecurity and perpetuates the disparities we see in kindergarten readiness and sustained academic achievement. SCCSs forward thinking model empowers center Directors to focus on high quality education, and social-emotional and academic outcomes for children by centralizing key administrative functions in a Central Office. Furthermore, SCCSs framework makes it possible to establish new centers in communities where high-quality child care is inaccessible and welcome existing independent centers in need of capacity building and long-term sustainability.