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January 2009 - Children and screen time – How much is too much?
While many parents are limiting the amount of screen time their children have, most of us are unaware of what constitutes too much screen time and why too much screen time is harmful.
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November 2008 - Parents can do a lot to help promote healthy eating
You’ve read all the news about childhood obesity and how today’s toddlers are far more overweight than when you were a toddler. And you know that a moderate weight issue today
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November 2008 - County child care centers earn grants.
Five child care facilities in Richmond County have earned quality enhancement grants from the Richmond
County Partnership for Children. The grants are designed to help facilities improve their program and achieve a higher quality rating.
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May 2008 - Children win bicycles in poster contest.
Two Rockingham 5-year-olds took home brand new bicycles recently as winners of a Richmond County
Partnership for Children poster contest.
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May 2008 - Partnership honors child care providers.
Two local child care centers have been named Child Care Centers of the Year by the Richmond County Partnership for Children.
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April 2008 - Partnership celebrates Week of the Young Child.
The Richmond County Partnership for Children will celebrate the "Week of the Young Child" April 14-18,
2008 to recognize the needs of young children and thank educators and others involved in building better futures for all children.
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April 2008 - Partnership given clean audit report.
The Richmond County Partnership for Children has a "clean bill" of financial health, according to the Office of
State Auditor. 
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October 2007- Smart Start awards pilot project grants.
The North Carolina Partnership for Children, Inc. (NCPC) has awarded The Partnership for Children and
Families of Moore County, in partnership with the Richmond County Partnership for Children, Lee County
Partnership for Children, the Montgomery County Partnership for Children Inc., a two-year Smart Start
pilot project grant in the amount of $95,198 to participate in a statewide project to increase access to developmental screenings for young children.
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