About Us
The Creston Valley Early Childhood Development Committee provides information and programming for parents and children birth to six years of age. We are pleased to have 18 partners in the Creston Valley! We share the desire to provide a wide variety of accessible services, support and plenty of resources to ensure we are the best parents we can be and our children are ready for school by age six! The Creston Valley is one of 7 communities in the East Kootenays working together to improve early childhood development service, awareness and organization.
We are fortunate to participate in the provincial wide early childhood initiative 
Success By 6® is an early childhood development initiative dedicated to providing all children with a good start in life. It helps to ensure that children ages 0 to 6 develop the emotional, social, cognitive, and physical skills they need as they 
enter school. Success By 6 builds and enhances community through engaging citizens in early childhood development, and funding programs that strengthen services for young children and their families.
Prevention-focused, research-informed and community-based, Success By 6 envisions a community where all children are valued, respected, nurtured, loved and given the opportunity to develop to their full potential as creative, caring, competent and responsible adults. Please visit the Success by 6 B.C. site. http://www.successby6bc.ca
Vision
The citizens, government, service agencies, businesses and services clubs jointly share interest and responsibility to invest in the Creston and District community that:
- Focuses on our community strengths and assets
- Provides a coordinated and fully accessible network of human services for children 0-6 years of age and their families
- Values and cares about families and young children of all cultures, races, religions and economic statuses
- Exhibits pride and ownership through volunteerism
- Continually improves and advocates for health, environmental quality, housing resources, regulated child care and services for children 0-6 years of age and their families
- Provides a safe, caring community so all citizens can contribute to and benefit from this vision
Mission Statement
The mission of the Creston Early Childhood/Success by 6 Committee is to develop and enhance individual (0-6 years), family and community well being, stability and growth.
Values Statement
In carrying out our mission with knowledge and commitment to the values of our Community ECD/Sby6 Committee, we believe:
- Ideas, priorities, and solutions must be delivered at a community level.
- Inclusive approaches to developing a healthy community must be used, linking education, health care, environment, economic, spiritual and cultural resources.
- Services must be responsive, flexible and tailored to meet our community’s identified needs.
- Services must be barrier free and accessible to all.
- Every person can make a contribution to this community.
- Every person must be treated with respect, compassion and dignity.
- Diversity is valued. Each person’s unique cultural, spiritual, and developmental needs must be respected.
- Responsibility is shared in partnership with the community.
- Services must be operated efficiently and be effective for those served.
- Every person can advocate successfully for needed change.
Visit www.ekkids.ca for information on Success by 6 in all the East Kootenay communities!
Visit www.creston.ca for information from the Town of Creston.