Alsea Pups Preschool

Strengthening Rural Families has received a Preschool Promise Program grant from the Oregon Department of Education -Early Learning division. The PSP is a publicly funded program that offers free preschool to families who live in Oregon with children who are at least 3 years old but not yet eligible for kindergarten and whose incomes are at or below 200% of the Federal Poverty Guideline. For 2021-2022 SRF applied for and received an Income Eligibility Exception for Frontier and Rural Communities, which allowed for all families to qualify for PSP, regardless of income level.

All Alsea Pups families will be required to fully complete the PSP application process before the start of preschool. This is a mandatory part of the program registration and is in coordination with the Early Learning Hub.

The funding provides an increase in resources to address the current gaps in access to affordable, high quality, culturally relevant preschool opportunities for families experiencing challenges. High quality preschool is one of the most effective strategies for closing the opportunity gaps, preparing children for kindergarten and ultimately raising school achievement.

The Alsea Pups Preschool could not exist without these combined funding sources. The preschool needs your active involvement to keep things running for all families. If the Preschool was strictly fee for service, without the shared funding, tuition would exceed $9,500 per year, per student. The parent fundraising commitment for 2021-22 is $1,000.

This is a Preschool Promise classroom and has eligibility requirements. Your child must be enrolled prior to the first day of school, including a registration packet from Ms. Mirium at the Alsea Pups Preschool. We will need a copy of your child’s birth certificate, and current immunization records for our records, so please be prepared. (We can take a copy of the birth certificate here.) If you do not have your child’s birth certificate, please order one now. 

For the 2022-23 school year, Preschool Promise registration/applications WILL BE OPEN BEGINNING IN MAY 2022.

Please contact Lauri @ lauri.srf@ruralfamilies.org or Ms. Mirium at mirium.srf@ruralfamilies.org IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN attending Alsea Pups Preschool in 2022-23, so we can make sure you complete the forms you need to and we can connect you to the coordinated enrollment specialist.