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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The mission of the Child Care Resource Center (CCRC) is to promote optimal child development and family well-being through access to quality child care, family support, economic development and community education. CCRC offers a wide range of high quality programs that help children and parents attain the necessary skills that place them on a path for current and future success. Data were collected and summarized across a number of CCRC’s early care and education programs to illustrate the impact on the following expected outcomes:
1) wewillincreasereadinessforkindergarteninunderservedchildren
2) wewillincreaseparent’sabilitytosupporttheirchildren’sreadinessforkindergarteninorder
to sustain their success in school
The programs we evaluated against these two intended outcomes included our Parents as Teachers home visitation program and our Mommy and Me program where parents and children learn skills to enhance readiness for school, Enrichment and Family Child Care Home Education Network (subsidized child care combined with highly trained in-home child care providers), and our Head Start programs. 2,221 children and their parents participated in these programs and increased their school readiness and parenting skills.
Participation in CCRC’s early care and education programs leads to:
• Statisticallysignificantdevelopmentalgainsinareasthatpreparechildrenages0-5yearsfortheirfuturein
school: self concept, social interpersonal skills, self regulation, language, learning, cognitive competence, math,
literacy, motor skills, and safety / health.
• Significantgainsinschoolreadinessforchildren:94.7%ofparentsreportedincreasesintheirchildren’s
readiness for kindergarten.
• Significantgainsinparent’sabilitytosupporttheirchildren’sreadinessforkindergartenandsustaintheir success in school: 89.1% of parents increased their parenting skills.
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