Butler County Educational Service Center

Coya Taylor: healthy babies in Butler County

Led by Coya Taylor, RN, Butler County Educational Service Center facilitates Butler County's Infant Mortality Medicaid Grant with various community partners in coordinated efforts to reduce infant mortality within African American communities.

FEMA provides thousands of free masks to Tri-State schools

As school is about to start up, districts across Southwest Ohio are receiving free face masks made possible from a donation through FEMA.

Head Start efforts to prepare Butler County students just got a budget boost

Area Head Start learning programs that prepare young children for success recently got a boost in federal funding local school officials said will greatly help the instructional program continue during the coronavirus pandemic.

Board Meeting - Oct. 21, 2020

The Butler County Educational Service Center Governing Board will hold its regularly scheduled meeting on Wednesday, Oct. 21 at 8:30 AM via Zoom.

300K free masks coming to area schools to help with coronavirus

Butler County school and emergency services officials have joined forces to deliver 300,000 masks to schools to help protect students and staffers from the coronavirus.

CARES Act Provides Additional Funding for Local Head Start Programs

Butler County Educational Service Center (BCESC) is slated to receive $697,883 in Butler County and $119,518 in Preble County through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act.

ICYMI: Coronavirus pandemic hasn't stopped home visits for Ohio's Help Me Grow program

Connie Neville was pregnant and looking for help when she first heard about Ohio’s Help Me Grow program. “I was 18 when I first got pregnant with Nova, so I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, I need resources or something,’” Neville said. “It’s been such a good program.”

Special Board Meeting - Sept. 5, 2020

The Butler County Educational Service Center Governing Board will hold a special meeting to consider the appointment, employment, dismissal, discipline, promotion, demotion, or compensation of a public employee, official, licensee, or regulated individual and to discuss general business. The meeting will be held virtually using Zoom on Saturday, Sept. 5, 2020 at 4:00 PM.

Butler County Educational Service Center Receives Eighth Consecutive Enquirer Top Workplace Award

Butler County Educational Service Center (BCESC) is pleased to announce that it has once again been recognized as one of the best places to work in Cincinnati by The Enquirer. BCESC has been named a Top Workplace for eight consecutive years and is one of 130 organizations featured on 2020’s Top Workplaces list.

As More Children Show Symptoms of Trauma, Head Start Programs Expand Support Services

Suzanne Prescott first noticed the changes in children’s behaviors in 2015.

She was fielding reports of kids knocking over bookshelves, tables and chairs; hitting their classmates; and causing physical harm to themselves and their teachers. Not only were more 3-, 4- and 5-year-olds having outbursts, they were doing so with an intensity Prescott had never before seen.

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