Vista Unified School District (VUSD): Since 1979, EES has offered preschool programs in the city of Vista. Our partnership has continued to grow and EES now has part-day preschool classrooms on 9 Vista elementary school campuses: EES Beaumont Preschool, EES Casita Center Preschool, EES Grapevine Preschool, EES Foothill Oak Preschool, EES Hannalei Preschool, EES Maryland Preschool, EES Mission Meadows Preschool, EES Temple Heights Preschool, and the EES Vista Academy of the Performing Arts Preschool. EES also operates five full-day early education centers that are open year-round: EES David and Jillian Gilmour Early Education Campus, the EES Sunset Early Education Center, the EES Monte Vista Early Education Center, the EES Vista Early Learning Center, and the EES Vista Innovation Early Education Center. In total, we annually educate over 750 children (infants-5 years of age) in Vista.
Feeding San Diego: In 2016 EES began a unique partnership with Feeding San Diego that allows EES to do 3 monthly food distributions (one in each of our regional locations). The distribution provides monthly food support to students and their families at 5 EES North County Sites, 2 Linda Vista Sites and 3 South Bay sites. Each month, over 10,000 pounds of fresh produce and packaged food is delivered and provided to our families to support healthy eating and combat food insecurity. EES is proud to be a part of the Feeding San Diego mission to lead the local community in the fight against hunger by efficiently providing access to food and nutritious meals.
United Way of San Diego: Since 1920, United Way has helped San Diego children and families grow stronger. United Way utilizes a collective impact approach – unifying the resources of dozens of local partners – to improve the lives of children and their families across the region. EES was a key partner in the Linda Vista Kindergarten Network and the Vista Partnership for Children collective impact initiatives, both funded by United Way. These collective impact initiatives brought together over 30 nonprofits, health providers, schools, government, businesses and other community-based organizations to support key issues, including getting children ready for kindergarten and reading at grade-level, as well as family stability and health.
Jewish Family Service of San Diego (JFS): Jewish Family Service is a client-centered, impact-driven organization working to build a stronger, healthier, more resilient San Diego. In 2015, United Way of San Diego County granted nearly $2 million to four community Network initiatives that are working collectively to help the youngest San Diegans and their families. JFS and EES were the lead partners in the Linda Vista Kindergarten Readiness Network, funded by United Way of San Diego. The Network worked to support and empower children and families to successfully transition from preschool to kindergarten and helped to establish family support hubs at the EES Deni Jacobs Early Education Center and the EES Robin Layton Early Education Center.
EES Early Childhood Family Literacy Training Program: EES initiated the Family Literacy Program in the Fall of 2002. The Family Literacy Program is a comprehensive program that addresses literacy as a family affair, extending its efforts to each and every member individually. EES believes that family literacy can be achieved through parenting workshops, parent and child time together, adult education, and a quality educational experience for each child. Initial support for the program came from The San Diego Foundation Weingart-Price Fund at the recommendation of Price Charities Advisory Board, Viterbi Family Foundation,Samuel J. & Katherine French Charitable Trust, The Legler Benbough Foundation, San Diego National Bank and The Wells Fargo Foundation. Additional funding has come from Qualcomm, Inc. The primary goal of EES’s Family Literacy Program is to increase achievement of the children served as shown by the desired results evaluation measurements.
Linda Vista Community Resident Program: Through Pediatricians and Communities Collaborating Together, part of UCSD's Department of Pediatrics, relationships are strengthened with various community organizations that enhance the residents’ exposure to children’s lives in the San Diego Region. The residents work with these communities throughout their residencies. During their first year, the residents participate in a four-week rotation in Community Pediatrics with over 50 community partners and 4 cultural immersion days throughout the year. During the remaining years of residency, the residents develop a long-term relationship with an organization and are given one half-day every other week to develop a project. Through the partnership EES has with Lori Taylor, M.D., once a month the Community Pediatric Rotation will visit our two centers in Linda Vista. The following year a resident may select to develop a long-term relationship with EES for the remainder of their residency and help us with a special project.
Rosie O’Donnell For All Kids Foundation: As a Child Care Collaborative partner, EES has been granted funding for building costs of the Deni Jacobs Early Education Center and the David and Jillian Gilmour Early Education Campus, as well as providing staff development and furnishing supplies. The foundation awards grants to nonprofit organizations dedicated to helping children and their families through child care, early childhood education, literacy and other essential programs.