Enrollment is open for Community Progress Council’s free Early Head Start, Head Start and pre-K programs. The nonprofit serves over 650 children throughout York County, educating them in classrooms and in their homes.

York County’s Community Progress Council has open teacher positions in our early childhood classrooms. Learn more about what’s required, the benefits, and the difference you’ll make.

As the baby formula shortage continues, CPC’s Women, Infants and Children (WIC) offices help families get their hands on different formulas that work for their babies and can provide the most updated comparable list.

Highmark Wholecare awarded a generous charitable donation of $25,000 in support of Community Progress Council’s housing counseling and education services. We are proud to be included in Highmark Wholecare’s $300,000 announcement in support of mission-focused nonprofits whose services directly benefit the community and the members that they serve.

Thank you to Enterprise Holdings, who presented a generous donation of $10,000 to Community Progress Council in June. This is the second year of a five-year commitment as part of the Enterprise Holdings ROAD Forward initiative, which supports organizations that advance social and racial equity in communities where the company operates. We are proud to be a trusted community partner in meeting the needs of underserved communities, and grateful to Enterprise for their ongoing support!

The workforce shortage has provided an opportunity for CPC to rethink how we recruit and retain employees. abc27 News reports on CPC’s new pre-apprentice program, training opportunities, and job openings in the Head Start program and throughout our organization.

Central Penn Business Journal recognizes Community Progress Council as a Top Winner in the Nonprofit Innovations Awards’ Management Operations category!

Recognition of CPC was awarded based on innovations in our service delivery model, which has been fully re-designed to support a comprehensive, integrated approach to services.

Increasing prices across a wide swath of consumer goods are causing major issues for people in low-income situations throughout Pennsylvania.

“It’s the inability to have a long-range vision of what they want to see happen with their lives because if you’re struggling to feed your children or keep a roof over your head – what’s happening three months down the road is not something you’re able to focus on.”

Pennsylvania First Lady Frances Wolf moderated a virtual panel discussion with early childhood educators on Wednesday to discuss Gov. Tom Wolf’s early childhood education spending plan.

“We know that children who participate in high quality Pre-K programs perform better in school, and they are more likely to graduate and to earn more throughout their lives afterwards,” Frances Wolf said during Wednesday’s virtual event.

Enrollment is open for Early Head Start and Head Start for the 2022-2023 school year! Home-based and center-based programs throughout York County serve pregnant people and children from birth through 5 years old, and their families.