Mission and Values
This core value emphasizes working with others to strengthen early childhood experiences and the nonprofit community.
What is Collaboration
This team at Action for Children helps families in central Ohio find the best child care and early education programs
What is Intake and Referral
This term refers to the process through which individuals improve their skills, knowledge, and abilities in their professional field.
What is Professional Development
This social worker and philanthropist, along with Rosa Hightower, co-founded Action for Children in 1972.
Who is Cee Cullman
Our mission focuses on helping adults because of their role in shaping this crucial period of a child's development.
What is Early Childhood
This type of intervention program helps prepare 3- and 4-year-old children for school by building reading, language, and social skills.
What is the SPARK program
Through this service, Action for Children helps child care owners and administrators with one-on-one coaching and courses in areas like budgeting and strategic planning, and Human Resources.
What is The BOSS
This program, launched in the 1980s, provided a warm-line for children home alone, offering reassurance, activities, and homework help.
What is a Phonefriend
This core value highlights the importance of being responsive to changing community needs and encouraging creativity in problem-solving.
What is Adaptability
This program offers job-readiness and parenting skills to fathers, with the goal of enhancing their involvement in their children's lives.
What is FatherUp
This Action for Children program provides training for child care professionals and was the first in Ohio to receive the “Gold Standard” designation.
What is Child Development Associate (CDA)
This year marked the founding of Action for Children, originally named Community Coordinated Child Care (4C), to address the growing need for childcare as more women entered the workforce.
This value is about leading the charge to increase access to quality early childhood experiences and empowering others to join the cause.
What is Advocacy
Our _______ team connects pregnant women, caregivers with new babies, and families with young children with developmental delays or disabilities with services that will provide tools and information to nurture the healthy growth of their child through their earliest years
What is Central Intake and Referral
This program, funded by the Franklin County Board of Commissioners, aims to improve accessibility to child care and early education experiences.
Action for Children was originally established under this name to address concerns about the care of children while their mothers worked.
What is Community Coordinated Child Care (4C)
This core value emphasizes taking a strengths-based approach, meeting others where they are, and embracing diversity, while also recognizing that achieving outcomes is important—but how they are achieved, through inclusion and support, matters just as much.
What is Respect and Compassion
This program provides parents with skills to create a healthy, respectful family life and manage stress, offering three- and six-week interactive classes.
What is The Art of Positive Parenting (TAPP)
Action for Children offers these services to help Family Child Care professionals meet Ohio’s childcare licensing requirements.
What is Family Childcare Pre-Licensing
This major achievement in 2012 recognized Action for Children as a leader in supporting the needs of children in central Ohio by awarding them with this prestigious recognition
What is the Champion of Children award