Starting Up

Economic, community, and workforce development will fail unless working families have access to affordable quality early care and education environments. 

Starting Up  Developing Public/Private Partnerships For Early Care and Education provides interested community leaders with a template for success.

This hands-on publication provides technical assistance to those interested in “Starting Up” a new facility.  From Chapter One, Partners To The Table, the information in this book demonstrates how to do a Needs Assessment, define corporate structure, locate resources, select allocation or building, secure financial resources, budgets, staff, program, and parent support.  It’s all there.

Completing her degree from Hiram College in Ohio, Selby has spent over 25 years developing early education programs.   For three and a half years Cheryl served as the Executive Director in Wyoming for the Governor’s Early Childhood Development Council.

Her extensive background in early education along with business and resource development have helped her play a leading role in fostering improved access to quality early education environments. 

Selby is the author of the Raising Readers In Wyoming Grant, and a co-author of the Wyoming Early Childhood Readiness Standards endorsed by the Wyoming State Board of Education.  Her work includes writing position papers on early literacy, and writing business plans to develop new facilities.