Cleveland County Partnership for Children

Cleveland County Partnership for Children Our goal is to provide early childhood education, support, and resources to children and families.

Guess what we did yesterday? 🙂 We held our annual Grinchmas and Mental Health Resource Drive Thru Event! We were able to...
12/17/2025

Guess what we did yesterday? 🙂 We held our annual Grinchmas and Mental Health Resource Drive Thru Event! We were able to help over 60 families with much needed resources thanks to donations from our wonderful community partners!

The amazing people listed below made this event possible and even though they give and give without any expectation of acknowledgement, we want to say thank you from all of us at CCPFC! Thank you for making this event so successful, thank you for giving, thank you for blessing our community, and most of all… thank you for your continued partnership. 🤗❤️

Our sponsors for this event were:

Sandy's Country Christmas
HomeTrust Bank
Fifth Third Bank
Jammin' Js Pizzas
Kaplan
The Well Outreach Ministries
Food Lion
Dairy Queen
Katina Smith, Berryland, Inc.
Misty Warlick, Apples of Gold
Robin Smith, It Takes A Village
Twanette Davenport, Play Palace
Missy Hamrick, Mama Lissa’s Tiny Tot University
CCPFC Staff

Merry Christmas and Happy New!! 🎆✨️

We love all of these! 💜
11/24/2025

We love all of these! 💜

If you’re in Shelby today.. Stop by the City of Shelby Health Fair and see us! 🙂 We’d love to connect with you!🤗
11/06/2025

If you’re in Shelby today.. Stop by the City of Shelby Health Fair and see us! 🙂 We’d love to connect with you!🤗

Contact us today for more information! (704) 734-2057
11/04/2025

Contact us today for more information!
(704) 734-2057

Come see us at the Great Pumpkin parade at Patriots Park in Kings Mountain! 🤗 We’d love to connect with you!
10/31/2025

Come see us at the Great Pumpkin parade at Patriots Park in Kings Mountain! 🤗 We’d love to connect with you!

There’s a whole lot of learning going on in our NC Pre-K classrooms! 💙If you have a four-year-old and are interested in ...
10/16/2025

There’s a whole lot of learning going on in our NC Pre-K classrooms! 💙

If you have a four-year-old and are interested in enrolling them in NC Pre-K, we still have slots available.
Contact us at (704) 734-2057

10/13/2025

Children’s rhythm skills are strongly linked to early language and reading development. Studies have found that preschoolers who can clap, tap, or move in time with a beat tend to perform better on early literacy measures, such as phonological awareness and word recognition. This is because rhythm and reading share underlying neural processes involving timing, prediction, and auditory processing.

Brain recordings show that children with stronger rhythm skills have more precise neural responses to speech sounds, allowing them to segment words into syllables and phonemes more effectively.

In 2024, researchers extended this understanding by using a rhythm-based training game with elementary students. After six weeks, the children who practiced rhythmic tasks showed measurable improvements in reading fluency compared to a control group.

Scientists think this happens because reading is inherently rhythmic: the brain must synchronize to the cadence of language, anticipate upcoming sounds, and map them to meaning. Engaging in rhythm games or musical play seems to train these timing mechanisms, giving children a cognitive boost that helps reading come more naturally.

Come see us at the Gardner Webb career fair today 9-2pm!
10/01/2025

Come see us at the Gardner Webb career fair today 9-2pm!

Looking for something new and exciting for your child(ren)? Check out our Kaleidoscope play and learn play groups with M...
09/09/2025

Looking for something new and exciting for your child(ren)? Check out our Kaleidoscope play and learn play groups with Mrs. Tracy! They meeting weekly at Shelby library and Kings Mountain Library. These are for newborns to age 5 and we always have a blast! 🤩

Throwing it back and throwing out knowledge!! Training day ready!
08/26/2025

Throwing it back and throwing out knowledge!! Training day ready!

EHS staff always have fun! Don't forget we are here until 4pm today for our EHS screening days 😁
08/20/2025

EHS staff always have fun! Don't forget we are here until 4pm today for our EHS screening days 😁

We had the privilege to hand out school supplies to our Cleveland County families at Fallston Baptist Church today! We a...
08/02/2025

We had the privilege to hand out school supplies to our Cleveland County families at Fallston Baptist Church today! We are so excited for a new school year 🤩

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1205 Northside Drive
Shelby, NC
28150

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