Le Bonheur Children's Inclusion Support program provides assistance to parents, early child care educators within licensed child care centers and family child care homes to ensure that Shelby County's children with chronic and complex medical/developmental needs have a successful early childhood education experience.
Inclusion Support, also known as Le Bonheur Early Intervention and Development (LEAD), began in 2010 to help families with children with special healthcare needs identify childcare placement and partner with childcare centers to fully support them in a typical setting.
Why Inclusion Support matters:
- Children whose needs require special healthcare procedures (g-tubes, tracheostomies, etc.) during the day are often turned away from typical childcare centers
- Inclusion Facilitators work alongside families and childcare centers to identify the needs of the child and train the childcare staff to perform medical procedures
Community partners include:
- Porter-Leath
- Child Care Resource & Referral (CCR&R)
- Memphis Shelby County Schools (MSCS)
