The Blue Mountain Early Learning Hub is rolling out a new opportunity for community businesses and organizations.
A “Family Friendly Business” designation is available to any private or public business as well as community organizations and agencies who employ staff. Criteria for the program are based on child and family well-being in the areas of health, safety, and education.
To be designated a Family Friendly Business, the business completes a short, 10-question self-assessment and submits it electronically. Cade Burnette, co-coordinator for the Blue Mountain Early Learning Hub, will coordinate the collection of the information and recognition of the partnering business or agency.
“This is an effort to closely knit the community sectors of parents, business, education, health, safety, and school district systems to support happy and healthy children, stable and attached families, and community well-being,” said Burnette. “The Blue Mountain Early Learning Hub’s goal is to engage community partners in this process while also promoting and supporting those agencies and businesses in our communities across Morrow, Umatilla, and Union counties.”
Recipients will be presented with a framed certificate and will be included in the Blue Mountain Early Learning Hub’s Family Friendly Business directory which will be posted on its web page at www.bluemountainearlylearninghub.org. It is also distributed to community partners and families on a regular basis.
The Blue Mountain Early Learning Hub is one of Oregon’s 16 early learning hubs. The hubs are coordinating bodies that pull together resources for children and families, from the health care, early childhood education, human and social services, K-12 school districts, and private sectors.The hubs coordinate early learning, health and social services for children from birth to third grade. The Blue Mountain Early Learning Hub service area is Union, Umatilla and Morrow counties. It is led by a 12-member governance board.
As part of its efforts to increase partnerships with the private and public sector, the Blue Mountain Early Learning Hub will welcome Megan Irwin, Oregon’s Early Learning System Director, to its meeting in Pendleton on May 9.
For more information, call Burnette at 541-564-6878.
