T.E.A.C.H.

T.E.A.C.H. Early Childhood KANSAS® (Teacher Education and Compensation Helps) is a college scholarship program that provides full time child care professionals with a scholarship for 80% of tuition and books. 

In addition, scholarship recipients receive:

• paid release time from their jobs in order to attend class, do homework, etc
• additional funding to cover the cost of travel and substitutes needed for the release time

Goals of the T.E.A.C.H Program are:

• To improve the quality of early childhood care and education in child care centers and family child care homes.
• To increase the educational level of child care providers
• To increase compensation of child care providers
• To decrease the turnover rate of child care providers
• To promote individual professional development
• To create a model of partnership for improving the quality of Kansas child care programs

Currently this program is only available in Reno and Rice Counties.

For more information or to be put onto a waiting list for the program, please contact:

Kris Nicholson, Child Care Aware of Kansas (Formerly KACCRRA) Project Director at 877-678 2548 or by email.