SWCDC is a private, nonprofit agency located in Webster, NC. Established in 1972, SWCDC’s goal is to provide comprehensive, high-quality child development services for young children and their families, including access to high quality, affordable early learning and school age opportunities. The ultimate goal is to contribute to enabling children to succeed in school and in life. SWCDC meets this goal locally, regionally, and statewide by the provision of child development services and participation in and contribution to initiatives that provide system changes for early childhood education.
SWCDC has been a State-Level Contractor with DCDEE since 1972. Over the years, SWCDC has contracted for a variety of tasks, the largest of these include regional subsidy administration and resource and referral services. In this contractual role, SWCDC routinely submits a year-end audited financial statement to NCDCDEE.
SWCDC is governed by a 14-member Board of Directors that is appointed (two from each of the seven southwestern counties of NC) by the local Boards of County Commissioners. The agency is led by a team of staff which hold degrees in early childhood, public policy, and other fields related to their individual work and serve locally, regionally, and statewide on a variety of committees and advisory boards that develop public policy to improve the early childhood education field.
SWCDC was among the first CCR&Rs in the state and provides high quality CCR&R services to parents, family child care providers, early childhood providers, school age care providers, and community partners in the region and statewide. SWCDC serves as the lead agency for Region 8 (Buncombe, Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, Macon, Madison, Polk, Rutherford, Swain, and Transylvania counties) and is an IACET approved provider of CEU’s. In addition to CCR&R services, services offered to the community by SWCDC include the provision of child care subsidy funds in 14 counties, parenting classes, and the Nurse Family Partnership program in the seven western counties.